Summary

For a healthy HDInsight cluster, the operations team needs to routinely review the cluster Name Node status, YARN application status, and Azure storage. The best way to monitor it is by remotely connecting to the head node. Azure PowerShell provides you additional capability to script and automate monitoring from any Windows machine. In the next chapter, we will look at how to ingest data to the newly created cluster.

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