How to access Hadoop counters values via API?

Question

In Hadoop we can increment counter in map/reduce task, it looks like this:

...
context.getCounter(MyCountersEnum.SomeCounter).increment(1);
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Answer 1

Counters represent global counters, defined either by the Map-Reduce framework or applications.

Each Counter can be of any Enum type. You can define counter as an enum in Driver class

static enum UpdateCount{
  CNT
 }

And then increment the counter in map/reduce task

public class CntReducer extends Reducer{
 public void reduce(IntWritable key,Iterable values,Context context)  {
      //do something
      context.getCounter(UpdateCount.CNT).increment(1);
 }
}

and access them in Driver class

public int run(String[] args) throws Exception {
 .
 .
 .
 job.setInputFormatClass(TextInputFormat.class);
 job.setOutputFormatClass(TextOutputFormat.class);
 FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job,in );
 FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, out);
 job.waitForCompletion(true);
 c = job.getCounters().findCounter(UpdateCount.CNT).getValue();
 //Print "c"
 }
}

c gives the counter value.

You can find an example here