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FailureDetails

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FailureDetails - Amazon EMR

The details of the step failure. The service attempts to detect the root cause for many common failures.

Contents

LogFile

The path to the log file where the step failure root cause was originally recorded.

Type: String

Required: No

Message

The descriptive message including the error the Amazon EMR service has identified as the cause of step failure. This is text from an error log that describes the root cause of the failure.

Type: String

Required: No

Reason

The reason for the step failure. In the case where the service cannot successfully determine the root cause of the failure, it returns "Unknown Error" as a reason.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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