Can I integrate Ambari after installing Apache Nifi?

Question

I've a 3 node Apache Nifi cluster and now I would like to put monitoring on top of it. Apache Ambari will be a good monitoring tool for it. Will I be able to integrate Ambari with Nifi? Or I need to installed Ambari first and then use Ambari feature to install Nifi. Note : I'm using open source software and not HortonWork.

Answer 1

As far as I know, I don't think it is possible to add an existing NiFi cluster as a new service to Ambari. You need to have Ambari then create and install the NiFi service.

Once installed, to monitor your NiFi service, you can use AmbariReportingTask available in NiFi to report statistics to your Ambari server for monitoring.

Useful Links

• https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.apache.nifi/nifi-ambari-nar/1.8.0/org.apache.nifi.reporting.ambari.AmbariReportingTask/index.html
• https://pierrevillard.com/2017/05/16/monitoring-nifi-ambari-grafana/