Pulse Year in Review 2024: Elevating Data Excellence to New Heights

As we wrap up 2024, we’re proud to share the incredible strides made with Acceldata’s Pulse, our cutting-edge Data Observability tool for Hadoop. Designed to help enterprises monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot their Hadoop environments, Pulse provides actionable insights for seamless operations and peak performance. This transformative year has seen groundbreaking advancements, robust feature additions, and an exceptional user experience. Here's a closer look at Pulse’s journey in 2024 and how it can empower your data operations.

Key Updates and Features of 2024

Revolutionizing Resource Management with the Pulse Yarn Optimizer

The Yarn Optimizer is a revolutionary feature introduced in Pulse that transforms how resources are managed within Hadoop Yarn clusters. By analyzing job patterns and intelligently reallocating resources, the Yarn Optimizer enables jobs to run more efficiently, reduces latencies, and unlocks capacity that was previously underutilized. This innovation has helped customers reduce operational costs by up to 25% and increase cluster throughput, allowing teams to focus on driving business outcomes rather than firefighting resource constraints.

Imagine completing tasks that once required extensive resources with less effort, enabling you to handle more workloads within the same infrastructure. The Yarn Optimizer's advanced algorithms ensure optimal memory utilization and identify opportunities for further savings, making it an indispensable tool for modern data teams. Learn more about it here.

Enhanced Observability for Spark on Kubernetes

Pulse now supports observability for Spark on Kubernetes (K8s), marking a significant step in extending its capabilities beyond Hadoop. This feature ensures you can monitor and optimize Spark workloads running on K8s clusters with ease.

Seamless Integration with Leading Tools

Pulse effortlessly connects with essential tools and platforms, enabling you to monitor and manage your data ecosystem more effectively. Supported integrations include:

• Airflow
• Kafka Schema Registry
• Kafka Connect
• Kafka Cruise Control
• NiFi Registry
• Kafka Mirror Maker
• Ozone
• Apache Druid

Scale with Pulse on Kubernetes

Pulse now supports deployment on vanilla Kubernetes and EKS clusters. This advancement allows you to leverage Kubernetes features like self-healing, horizontal scalability, and seamless multi-node deployment of Pulse microservices. Pulse on K8s ensures your infrastructure remains resilient and adaptable.

Streamlined UI and Enhanced User Experience

Pulse’s redesigned interface makes monitoring and troubleshooting your data ecosystem easier than ever. The refreshed UI provides a cleaner layout, better usability, and streamlined navigation across core modules like Nodes, Alerts, and Incidents.

Improved Security and Reliability

Your data is safer with Pulse. Key updates include:

• Database Backup & Restore: Securely back up and restore your MongoDB and VictoriaDB databases to prevent data loss during system crashes.
• Elasticsearch Security Improvements: Bolstered security for data access and storage.
• CVE Fixes: Addressed critical vulnerabilities to enhance system stability and security.

Real-Time Insights and Alerts

Stay on top of your data operations with:

• Enhanced observability metrics for services like Kafka Mirror Maker, Hadoop Ozone, and Apache Druid.
• Expanded notification channels, including Big Panda, Quantum, xMatters, and Jira, for real-time alerts and faster incident response.

Audit and Optimize with New Capabilities

• Pulse Auditing: Monitor agent health, user activities, and popular pages to optimize your workflows and ensure compliance.
• Dynamic Impala Metrics: Collect runtime metrics for Impala to fine-tune performance and efficiency.

How Pulse Helps You Achieve More

Pulse has evolved into a robust, feature-rich platform in 2024, offering unparalleled data observability for Hadoop while paving the way for even greater innovations. With advanced features like the Yarn Optimizer, Kubernetes deployment, and real-time observability, Pulse empowers you to achieve operational excellence across your Hadoop ecosystem.

What’s Next for Pulse?

As we look forward, our commitment remains on driving scalability, improving performance, and rolling out transformative features like anomaly detection and advanced resource optimization. Big things are on the way—stay tuned for the next wave of innovation!

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