Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon EMR: Custom JAR cluster errors

The following errors are common to custom JAR clusters.

Is your JAR throwing an exception before creating a job?

If the main program of your custom JAR throws an exception while creating the Hadoop job, the best place to look is the syslog file of the step logs. For more information, see View Amazon EMR log files.

Is your JAR throwing an error inside a map task?

If your custom JAR and mapper throw an exception while processing input data, the best place to look is the syslog file of the task attempt logs. For more information, see View Amazon EMR log files.