# apache/ambari

Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.

Repository: https://github.com/apache/ambari
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ambari
Homepage: https://ambari.apache.org
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: ambari, python, java, big-data, javascript
Last push: 2026-08-25T15:59:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5458, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 503, "gap_med": 7, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2311, forks 1739 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:36.046888+00:00)

## What it is
Apache Ambari is an open-source tool for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters. It provides a browser-based management UI backed by RESTful APIs, plus metrics collection and alerting via Ambari Metrics and the Alert Framework.

## Use cases
- install a Hadoop cluster across many hosts with a step-by-step wizard
- start, stop, and reconfigure Hadoop services from a central web UI
- monitor cluster health and get alerts when a node goes down or disk space is low
- integrate Hadoop provisioning and monitoring into custom apps via REST APIs
- manage a Bigtop Hadoop stack on Rocky Linux servers

## When to choose
- you operate Hadoop or Bigtop clusters on supported Linux distributions and want a GUI plus REST API for lifecycle management
- you need built-in metrics collection and alerting for Hadoop services
- you want wizard-driven provisioning instead of manual configuration

## When to avoid
- you run Kubernetes-native or cloud-managed big data platforms instead of traditional Hadoop clusters
- your OS is not among the supported 64-bit distributions (Rocky Linux 8/9, OpenEuler 22)
- you need a lightweight agentless tool rather than a server/agent architecture

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, alerting, deployment, configuration-management, web-framework, api-framework
- domain: big-data, monitoring, self-hosted, microservices
- platform: self-hosted, python, jvm
- tags: hadoop, cluster-management, provisioning, bigtop, rest-api, web-ui, devops, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- apache/ambari (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.046888+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:39:31.890234+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/apache/ambari (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.046888+00:00, sha 5be82ae5f7e9)
  - homepage: https://ambari.apache.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:19:38.509451+00:00, sha c40837976134)
  - site_page: https://ambari.apache.org/docs/3.0.0/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T10:19:38.511696+00:00, sha a18ad9568de2)
  - site_page: https://ambari.apache.org/docs/next/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T10:19:38.513781+00:00, sha bf5a648161a9)
  - site_page: https://ambari.apache.org/docs/2.7.9/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T10:19:38.515500+00:00, sha adcbba047d77)
  - site_page: https://ambari.apache.org/docs/2.7.8/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T10:19:38.517231+00:00, sha 2d5d685a53c4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.