Create and query a basic table based on Amazon EMR log files

The following example creates a basic table, myemrlogs, based on log files saved to s3://aws-logs-123456789012-us-west-2/elasticmapreduce/j-2ABCDE34F5GH6/elasticmapreduce/. The Amazon S3 location used in the examples below reflects the pattern of the default log location for an EMR cluster created by Amazon Web Services account 123456789012 in Region us-west-2. If you use a custom location, the pattern is s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/ClusterID.

For information about creating a partitioned table to potentially improve query performance and reduce data transfer, see Create and query a partitioned table based on Amazon EMR logs.

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE `myemrlogs`(
  `data` string COMMENT 'from deserializer')
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED  
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 
  'org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat' 
OUTPUTFORMAT 
  'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat'
LOCATION
  's3://aws-logs-123456789012-us-west-2/elasticmapreduce/j-2ABCDE34F5GH6'

Example queries

The following example queries can be run on the myemrlogs table created by the previous example.

SELECT data,
        "$PATH"
FROM "default"."myemrlogs"
WHERE regexp_like("$PATH",'s-86URH188Z6B1')
        AND regexp_like(data, 'ERROR|WARN|INFO|EXCEPTION|FATAL|DEBUG') limit 100;

SELECT "data",
        "$PATH" AS filepath
FROM "default"."myemrlogs"
WHERE regexp_like("$PATH",'i-00b3c0a839ece0a9c')
        AND regexp_like("$PATH",'state')
        AND regexp_like(data, 'ERROR|WARN|INFO|EXCEPTION|FATAL|DEBUG') limit 100;         

SELECT "data",
        "$PATH" AS filepath
FROM "default"."myemrlogs"
WHERE regexp_like("$PATH",'presto')
        AND regexp_like(data, 'ERROR|WARN|INFO|EXCEPTION|FATAL|DEBUG') limit 100;

SELECT "data",
        "$PATH" AS filepath
FROM "default"."myemrlogs"
WHERE regexp_like("$PATH",'namenode')
        AND regexp_like(data, 'ERROR|WARN|INFO|EXCEPTION|FATAL|DEBUG') limit 100;

SELECT distinct("$PATH") AS filepath
FROM "default"."myemrlogs"
WHERE regexp_like("$PATH",'2019-07-23-10')
        AND regexp_like(data, 'ERROR|WARN|INFO|EXCEPTION|FATAL|DEBUG') limit 100;