Hi All! We are trying to configure a custom Kafka log appender for our YARN application and we hit the following problem.
We included the log appender dependency in the fatjar of the application because in YARN that should be part of the system class path. However when the YARN cluster entrypoints run (YarnJobClusterEntrypoint, YarnTaskExecutorRunner) these only seem to have the contents of lib on their classpath. Does someone have any pointers to how the classpath is configured for running the entrypoints? The exception is this: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.kafka.log4jappender.KafkaLog4jAppender at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:335) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.Loader.loadClass(Loader.java:198) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName(OptionConverter.java:327) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByKey(OptionConverter.java:124) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:785) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCatsAndRenderers(PropertyConfigurator.java:672) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:516) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:580) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:526) at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:127) at org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:81) at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:329) at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:349) at org.apache.flink.runtime.entrypoint.ClusterEntrypoint.<clinit>(ClusterEntrypoint.java:104) Thanks, Gyula