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Data visualisation

In this section, we will use the Matplotlib to visualise data

Jupyter notebook for data visualisationarrow-up-right

  • Create a new PySpark3 notebook attached to the Spark cluster.

  • A new notebook is created and opened with the name Untitled.pynb. Click the notebook name at the top, and enter a friendly name viz.

  • Because you created a notebook using the PySpark kernel, you do not need to create any contexts explicitly. The Spark and Hive contexts will be automatically created for you when you run the first code cell. You can start by importing the types that are required for this scenario. Paste the following snippet in an empty cell, and then press SHIFT + ENTER.

from pyspark.sql import Row
from pyspark.sql.types import *

  • Create an RDD using the sample log data already available on the cluster. You

    can access the data in the default storage account associated with the cluster

    at \HdiSamples\HdiSamples\WebsiteLogSampleData\SampleLog\909f2b.log.

logs = sc.textFile('wasbs:///HdiSamples/HdiSamples/WebsiteLogSampleData/SampleLog/909f2b.log')

  • Retrieve a sample log set to verify that the previous step completed

    successfully.

logs.take(5)

You should see an output similar to the following:

# -----------------
# THIS IS AN OUTPUT
# -----------------

[u'#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 8.0',
 u'#Fields: date time s-sitename cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port cs-username c-ip cs(User-Agent) cs(Cookie) cs(Referer) cs-host sc-status sc-substatus sc-win32-status sc-bytes cs-bytes time-taken',
 u'2014-01-01 02:01:09 SAMPLEWEBSITE GET /blogposts/mvc4/step2.png X-ARR-LOG-ID=2ec4b8ad-3cf0-4442-93ab-837317ece6a1 80 - 1.54.23.196 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/31.0.1650.63+Safari/537.36 - http://weblogs.asp.net/sample/archive/2007/12/09/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-4-handling-form-edit-and-post-scenarios.aspx www.sample.com 200 0 0 53175 871 46',
 u'2014-01-01 02:01:09 SAMPLEWEBSITE GET /blogposts/mvc4/step3.png X-ARR-LOG-ID=9eace870-2f49-4efd-b204-0d170da46b4a 80 - 1.54.23.196 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/31.0.1650.63+Safari/537.36 - http://weblogs.asp.net/sample/archive/2007/12/09/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-4-handling-form-edit-and-post-scenarios.aspx www.sample.com 200 0 0 51237 871 32',
 u'2014-01-01 02:01:09 SAMPLEWEBSITE GET /blogposts/mvc4/step4.png X-ARR-LOG-ID=4bea5b3d-8ac9-46c9-9b8c-ec3e9500cbea 80 - 1.54.23.196 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.3;+WOW64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/31.0.1650.63+Safari/537.36 - http://weblogs.asp.net/sample/archive/2007/12/09/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-4-handling-form-edit-and-post-scenarios.aspx www.sample.com 200 0 0 72177 871 47']

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Analyze log data using a custom Python library

  • In the output above, the first couple lines include the header information and each remaining line matches the schema described in that header. Parsing such logs could be complicated. So, we use a custom Python library

    (iislogparser.py) that makes parsing such logs much easier. By default, this library is included with your Spark cluster on HDInsight at /HdiSamples/HdiSamples/WebsiteLogSampleData/iislogparser.py.

However, this library is not in the PYTHONPATH so we cannot use it by using an import statement like import iislogparser. To use this library, we must distribute it to all the worker nodes. Run the following snippet.

  • iislogparser provides a function parse_log_line that returns None if a log

    line is a header row, and returns an instance of the LogLine class if it

    encounters a log line. Use the LogLine class to extract only the log lines

    from the RDD:

  • Retrieve a couple of extracted log lines to verify that the step completed

    successfully.

The output should be similar to the following:

  • The LogLine class, in turn, has some useful methods, like is_error(), which

    returns whether a log entry has an error code. Use this to compute the number of

    errors in the extracted log lines, and then log all the errors to a different

    file.

You should see an output like the following:

  • You can also use Matplotlib to construct a visualization of the data. For

    example, if you want to isolate the cause of requests that run for a long time,

    you might want to find the files that take the most time to serve on average.

    The snippet below retrieves the top 25 resources that took most time to serve a

    request.

You should see an output like the following:

  • You can also present this information in the form of plot. As a first step to create a plot, let us first create a temporary table AverageTime. The table groups the logs by time to see if there were any unusual latency spikes at any particular time.

  • You can then run the following SQL query to get all the records in the AverageTime table.

The %%sql magic followed by -o averagetime ensures that the output of the query is persisted locally on the Jupyter server (typically the headnode of the cluster). The output is persisted as a Pandasarrow-up-right dataframe with the specified name averagetime.

You should see an output like the following:

SQL query output

For more information about the %%sql magic, see Parameters supported with the %%sql magicarrow-up-right.

  • You can now use Matplotlib, a library used to construct visualization of data, to create a plot. Because the plot must be created from the locally persisted averagetime dataframe, the code snippet must begin with the %%local magic. This ensures that the code is run locally on the Jupyter server.

You should see an output like the following:

Matplotlib output

  • After you have finished running the application, you should shutdown the notebook to release the resources. To do so, from the File menu on the notebook, click Close and Halt. This will shutdown and close the notebook.

Solution: Jupyter notebook for data visualisationarrow-up-right

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