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Version: 0.11.0

Spark

To integrate Spark with DataHub, we provide a lightweight Java agent that listens for Spark application and job events and pushes metadata out to DataHub in real-time. The agent listens to events such application start/end, and SQLExecution start/end to create pipelines (i.e. DataJob) and tasks (i.e. DataFlow) in Datahub along with lineage to datasets that are being read from and written to. Read on to learn how to configure this for different Spark scenarios.

Configuring Spark agent​

The Spark agent can be configured using a config file or while creating a Spark Session. If you are using Spark on Databricks, refer Configuration Instructions for Databricks.

Before you begin: Versions and Release Notes​

Versioning of the jar artifact will follow the semantic versioning of the main DataHub repo and release notes will be available here. Always check the Maven central repository for the latest released version.

Configuration Instructions: spark-submit​

When running jobs using spark-submit, the agent needs to be configured in the config file.

#Configuring DataHub spark agent jar
spark.jars.packages                          io.acryl:datahub-spark-lineage:0.8.23
spark.extraListeners                         datahub.spark.DatahubSparkListener
spark.datahub.rest.server                    http://localhost:8080

Configuration Instructions: Amazon EMR​

Set the following spark-defaults configuration properties as it stated here

spark.jars.packages                          io.acryl:datahub-spark-lineage:0.8.23
spark.extraListeners                         datahub.spark.DatahubSparkListener
spark.datahub.rest.server                    https://your_datahub_host/gms
#If you have authentication set up then you also need to specify the Datahub access token
spark.datahub.rest.token                     yourtoken

Configuration Instructions: Notebooks​

When running interactive jobs from a notebook, the listener can be configured while building the Spark Session.

spark = SparkSession.builder \
          .master("spark://spark-master:7077") \
          .appName("test-application") \
          .config("spark.jars.packages","io.acryl:datahub-spark-lineage:0.8.23") \
          .config("spark.extraListeners","datahub.spark.DatahubSparkListener") \
          .config("spark.datahub.rest.server", "http://localhost:8080") \
          .enableHiveSupport() \
          .getOrCreate()

Configuration Instructions: Standalone Java Applications​

The configuration for standalone Java apps is very similar.

spark = SparkSession.builder()
        .appName("test-application")
        .config("spark.master", "spark://spark-master:7077")
        .config("spark.jars.packages","io.acryl:datahub-spark-lineage:0.8.23")
        .config("spark.extraListeners", "datahub.spark.DatahubSparkListener")
        .config("spark.datahub.rest.server", "http://localhost:8080")
        .enableHiveSupport()
        .getOrCreate();

Configuration Instructions: Databricks​

The Spark agent can be configured using Databricks Cluster Spark configuration and Init script.

Databricks Secrets can be leveraged to store sensitive information like tokens.

  • Download datahub-spark-lineage jar from the Maven central repository.

  • Create init.sh with below content

    #!/bin/bash
    cp /dbfs/datahub/datahub-spark-lineage*.jar /databricks/jars

  • Install and configure Databricks CLI.

  • Copy jar and init script to Databricks File System(DBFS) using Databricks CLI.

    databricks fs mkdirs dbfs:/datahub
    databricks fs cp --overwrite datahub-spark-lineage*.jar dbfs:/datahub
    databricks fs cp --overwrite init.sh dbfs:/datahub

  • Open Databricks Cluster configuration page. Click the Advanced Options toggle. Click the Spark tab. Add below configurations under Spark Config.

    spark.extraListeners                datahub.spark.DatahubSparkListener
    spark.datahub.rest.server           http://localhost:8080
    spark.datahub.databricks.cluster    cluster-name<any preferred cluster identifier>

  • Click the Init Scripts tab. Set cluster init script as dbfs:/datahub/init.sh.

  • Configuring DataHub authentication token

    • Add below config in cluster spark config.

      spark.datahub.rest.token <token>

    • Alternatively, Databricks secrets can be used to secure token.

      • Create secret using Databricks CLI.

        databricks secrets create-scope --scope datahub --initial-manage-principal users
        databricks secrets put --scope datahub --key rest-token
        databricks secrets list --scope datahub &lt;&lt;Edit prompted file with token value&gt;&gt;

      • Add in spark config

        spark.datahub.rest.token {{secrets/datahub/rest-token}}

Configuration Options​

FieldRequiredDefaultDescription
spark.jars.packages✅Set with latest/required version io.acryl:datahub-spark-lineage:0.8.23
spark.extraListeners✅datahub.spark.DatahubSparkListener
spark.datahub.rest.server✅Datahub server url eg:http://localhost:8080
spark.datahub.rest.tokenAuthentication token.
spark.datahub.rest.disable_ssl_verificationfalseDisable SSL certificate validation. Caution: Only use this if you know what you are doing!
spark.datahub.metadata.pipeline.platformInstancePipeline level platform instance
spark.datahub.metadata.dataset.platformInstancedataset level platform instance
spark.datahub.metadata.dataset.envPRODSupported values. In all other cases, will fallback to PROD
spark.datahub.metadata.table.hive_platform_aliashiveBy default, datahub assigns Hive-like tables to the Hive platform. If you are using Glue as your Hive metastore, set this config flag to glue
spark.datahub.metadata.include_schemetrueInclude scheme from the path URI (e.g. hdfs://, s3://) in the dataset URN. We recommend setting this value to false, it is set to true for backwards compatibility with previous versions
spark.datahub.metadata.remove_partition_patternRemove partition pattern. (e.g. /partition=\d+) It change database/table/partition=123 to database/table
spark.datahub.coalesce_jobsfalseOnly one datajob(task) will be emitted containing all input and output datasets for the spark application
spark.datahub.parent.datajob_urnSpecified dataset will be set as upstream dataset for datajob created. Effective only when spark.datahub.coalesce_jobs is set to true

What to Expect: The Metadata Model​

As of current writing, the Spark agent produces metadata related to the Spark job, tasks and lineage edges to datasets.

  • A pipeline is created per Spark <master, appName>.
  • A task is created per unique Spark query execution within an app.

For Spark on Databricks,

  • A pipeline is created per
    • cluster_identifier: specified with spark.datahub.databricks.cluster
    • applicationID: on every restart of the cluster new spark applicationID will be created.
  • A task is created per unique Spark query execution.

Custom properties & relating to Spark UI​

The following custom properties in pipelines and tasks relate to the Spark UI:

  • appName and appId in a pipeline can be used to determine the Spark application
  • description and SQLQueryId in a task can be used to determine the Query Execution within the application on the SQL tab of Spark UI
  • Other custom properties of pipelines and tasks capture the start and end times of execution etc.
  • The query plan is captured in the queryPlan property of a task.

For Spark on Databricks, pipeline start time is the cluster start time.

Spark versions supported​

The primary version tested is Spark/Scala version 2.4.8/2_11. This library has also been tested to work with Spark versions(2.2.0 - 2.4.8) and Scala versions(2.10 - 2.12). For the Spark 3.x series, this has been tested to work with Spark 3.1.2 and 3.2.0 with Scala 2.12. Other combinations are not guaranteed to work currently. Support for other Spark versions is planned in the very near future.

Environments tested with​

This initial release has been tested with the following environments:

  • spark-submit of Python/Java applications to local and remote servers
  • Jupyter notebooks with pyspark code
  • Standalone Java applications
  • Databricks Standalone Cluster

Testing with Databricks Standard and High-concurrency Cluster is not done yet.

Spark commands supported​

Below is a list of Spark commands that are parsed currently:

  • InsertIntoHadoopFsRelationCommand
  • SaveIntoDataSourceCommand (jdbc)
  • SaveIntoDataSourceCommand (Delta Lake)
  • CreateHiveTableAsSelectCommand
  • InsertIntoHiveTable

Effectively, these support data sources/sinks corresponding to Hive, HDFS, JDBC, and Delta Lake.

DataFrame.persist command is supported for below LeafExecNodes:

  • FileSourceScanExec
  • HiveTableScanExec
  • RowDataSourceScanExec
  • InMemoryTableScanExec

Spark commands not yet supported​

  • View related commands
  • Cache commands and implications on lineage
  • RDD jobs

Important notes on usage​

  • It is advisable to ensure appName is used appropriately to ensure you can trace lineage from a pipeline back to your source code.
  • If multiple apps with the same appName run concurrently, dataset-lineage will be captured correctly but the custom-properties e.g. app-id, SQLQueryId would be unreliable. We expect this to be quite rare.
  • If spark execution fails, then an empty pipeline would still get created, but it may not have any tasks.
  • For HDFS sources, the folder (name) is regarded as the dataset (name) to align with typical storage of parquet/csv formats.

Debugging​

  • Following info logs are generated

On Spark context startup

YY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss INFO DatahubSparkListener: DatahubSparkListener initialised.
YY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss INFO SparkContext: Registered listener datahub.spark.DatahubSparkListener

On application start

YY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss INFO DatahubSparkListener: Application started: SparkListenerApplicationStart(AppName,Some(local-1644489736794),1644489735772,user,None,None)
YY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss INFO McpEmitter: REST Emitter Configuration: GMS url <rest.server>
YY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss INFO McpEmitter: REST Emitter Configuration: Token XXXXX

On pushing data to server

YY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss INFO McpEmitter: MetadataWriteResponse(success=true, responseContent={"value":"<URN>"}, underlyingResponse=HTTP/1.1 200 OK [Date: day, DD month year HH:mm:ss GMT, Content-Type: application/json, X-RestLi-Protocol-Version: 2.0.0, Content-Length: 97, Server: Jetty(9.4.46.v20220331)] [Content-Length: 97,Chunked: false])

On application end

YY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss INFO DatahubSparkListener: Application ended : AppName AppID
  • To enable debugging logs, add below configuration in log4j.properties file
log4j.logger.datahub.spark=DEBUG
log4j.logger.datahub.client.rest=DEBUG

Known limitations​

  • Only postgres supported for JDBC sources in this initial release. Support for other driver URL formats will be added in future.
  • Behavior with cached datasets is not fully specified/defined in context of lineage.
  • There is a possibility that very short-lived jobs that run within a few milliseconds may not be captured by the listener. This should not cause an issue for realistic Spark applications.