HBASE-25790 NamedQueue 'BalancerRejection' for recent history of balancer skipping (#3182) (#3245)

Signed-off-by: Viraj Jasani <vjasani@apache.org>

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/BalancerRejection.java

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.builder.ToStringBuilder;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.GsonUtil;
+import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;
+import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceStability;
+
+import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.com.google.gson.Gson;
+import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.com.google.gson.JsonSerializer;
+
+/**
+ * History of detail information that balancer movements was rejected
+ */
+@InterfaceAudience.Public
+@InterfaceStability.Evolving
+final public class BalancerRejection extends LogEntry {
+  //The reason why balancer was rejected
+  private final String reason;
+  private final List<String> costFuncInfoList;
+
+  // used to convert object to pretty printed format
+  // used by toJsonPrettyPrint()
+  private static final Gson GSON = GsonUtil.createGson()
+    .setPrettyPrinting()
+    .disableHtmlEscaping()
+    .registerTypeAdapter(BalancerRejection.class, (JsonSerializer<BalancerRejection>)
+      (balancerRejection, type, jsonSerializationContext) -> {
+        Gson gson = new Gson();
+        return gson.toJsonTree(balancerRejection);
+      }).create();
+
+  private BalancerRejection(String reason, List<String> costFuncInfoList) {
+    this.reason = reason;
+    if(costFuncInfoList == null){
+      this.costFuncInfoList = Collections.emptyList();
+    }
+    else {
+      this.costFuncInfoList = costFuncInfoList;
+    }
+  }
+
+  public String getReason() {
+    return reason;
+  }
+
+  public List<String> getCostFuncInfoList() {
+    return costFuncInfoList;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return new ToStringBuilder(this)
+      .append("reason", reason)
+      .append("costFuncInfoList", costFuncInfoList.toString())
+      .toString();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toJsonPrettyPrint() {
+    return GSON.toJson(this);
+  }
+
+  public static class Builder {
+    private String reason;
+    private List<String> costFuncInfoList;
+
+    public Builder setReason(String reason) {
+      this.reason = reason;
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public void addCostFuncInfo(String funcName, double cost, float multiplier){
+      if(costFuncInfoList == null){
+        costFuncInfoList = new ArrayList<>();
+      }
+      costFuncInfoList.add(
+        new StringBuilder()
+          .append(funcName)
+          .append(" cost:").append(cost)
+          .append(" multiplier:").append(multiplier)
+          .toString());
+    }
+
+    public Builder setCostFuncInfoList(List<String> costFuncInfoList){
+      this.costFuncInfoList = costFuncInfoList;
+      return this;
+    }
+
+    public BalancerRejection build() {
+      return new BalancerRejection(reason, costFuncInfoList);
+    }
+  }
+}

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.java

@@ -4434,6 +4434,12 @@ public class HBaseAdmin implements Admin {
           "Balancer Decision logs are not maintained by HRegionServer");
       }
       return getBalancerDecisions(limit);
+    } else if (logType.equals("BALANCER_REJECTION")) {
+      if (ServerType.REGION_SERVER.equals(serverType)) {
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+          "Balancer Rejection logs are not maintained by HRegionServer");
+      }
+      return getBalancerRejections(limit);
     }
     return Collections.emptyList();
   }
@@ -4450,6 +4456,18 @@ public class HBaseAdmin implements Admin {
     });
   }
 
+  private List<LogEntry> getBalancerRejections(final int limit) throws IOException {
+    return executeCallable(new MasterCallable<List<LogEntry>>(getConnection(),
+      getRpcControllerFactory()) {
+      @Override
+      protected List<LogEntry> rpcCall() throws Exception {
+        HBaseProtos.LogEntry logEntry =
+          master.getLogEntries(getRpcController(), ProtobufUtil.toBalancerRejectionRequest(limit));
+        return ProtobufUtil.toBalancerRejectionResponse(logEntry);
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
   private Boolean clearSlowLogsResponses(final ServerName serverName) throws IOException {
     AdminService.BlockingInterface admin = this.connection.getAdmin(serverName);
     return executeCallable(new RpcRetryingCallable<Boolean>() {

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/RawAsyncHBaseAdmin.java

@@ -3968,6 +3968,15 @@ class RawAsyncHBaseAdmin implements AsyncAdmin {
       .call();
   }
 
+  private CompletableFuture<List<LogEntry>> getBalancerRejections(final int limit) {
+    return this.<List<LogEntry>>newMasterCaller()
+      .action((controller, stub) ->
+        this.call(controller, stub,
+          ProtobufUtil.toBalancerRejectionRequest(limit),
+          MasterService.Interface::getLogEntries, ProtobufUtil::toBalancerRejectionResponse))
+      .call();
+  }
+
   @Override
   public CompletableFuture<List<LogEntry>> getLogEntries(Set<ServerName> serverNames,
       String logType, ServerType serverType, int limit,
@@ -3975,18 +3984,27 @@ class RawAsyncHBaseAdmin implements AsyncAdmin {
     if (logType == null || serverType == null) {
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("logType and/or serverType cannot be empty");
     }
-    if (logType.equals("SLOW_LOG") || logType.equals("LARGE_LOG")) {
-      if (ServerType.MASTER.equals(serverType)) {
-        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Slow/Large logs are not maintained by HMaster");
-      }
-      return getSlowLogResponses(filterParams, serverNames, limit, logType);
-    } else if (logType.equals("BALANCER_DECISION")) {
-      if (ServerType.REGION_SERVER.equals(serverType)) {
-        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
-          "Balancer Decision logs are not maintained by HRegionServer");
-      }
-      return getBalancerDecisions(limit);
+    switch (logType){
+      case "SLOW_LOG":
+      case "LARGE_LOG":
+        if (ServerType.MASTER.equals(serverType)) {
+          throw new IllegalArgumentException("Slow/Large logs are not maintained by HMaster");
+        }
+        return getSlowLogResponses(filterParams, serverNames, limit, logType);
+      case "BALANCER_DECISION":
+        if (ServerType.REGION_SERVER.equals(serverType)) {
+          throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+            "Balancer Decision logs are not maintained by HRegionServer");
+        }
+        return getBalancerDecisions(limit);
+      case "BALANCER_REJECTION":
+        if (ServerType.REGION_SERVER.equals(serverType)) {
+          throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+            "Balancer Rejection logs are not maintained by HRegionServer");
+        }
+        return getBalancerRejections(limit);
+      default:
+        return CompletableFuture.completedFuture(Collections.emptyList());
     }
-    return CompletableFuture.completedFuture(Collections.emptyList());
   }
 }

hbase-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/shaded/protobuf/ProtobufUtil.java

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.NamespaceDescriptor;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ServerName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Append;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.BalancerRejection;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.BalancerDecision;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.CheckAndMutate;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientUtil;
@@ -3686,6 +3687,25 @@ public final class ProtobufUtil {
     throw new RuntimeException("Invalid response from server");
   }
 
+  public static List<LogEntry> toBalancerRejectionResponse(
+    HBaseProtos.LogEntry logEntry) {
+    try {
+      final String logClassName = logEntry.getLogClassName();
+      Class<?> logClass = Class.forName(logClassName).asSubclass(Message.class);
+      Method method = logClass.getMethod("parseFrom", ByteString.class);
+      if (logClassName.contains("BalancerRejectionsResponse")) {
+        MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsResponse response =
+          (MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsResponse) method
+            .invoke(null, logEntry.getLogMessage());
+        return getBalancerRejectionEntries(response);
+      }
+    } catch (ClassNotFoundException | NoSuchMethodException | IllegalAccessException
+      | InvocationTargetException e) {
+      throw new RuntimeException("Error while retrieving response from server");
+    }
+    throw new RuntimeException("Invalid response from server");
+  }
+
   public static List<LogEntry> getBalancerDecisionEntries(
       MasterProtos.BalancerDecisionsResponse response) {
     List<RecentLogs.BalancerDecision> balancerDecisions = response.getBalancerDecisionList();
@@ -3702,6 +3722,19 @@ public final class ProtobufUtil {
       .collect(Collectors.toList());
   }
 
+  public static List<LogEntry> getBalancerRejectionEntries(
+    MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsResponse response) {
+    List<RecentLogs.BalancerRejection> balancerRejections = response.getBalancerRejectionList();
+    if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(balancerRejections)) {
+      return Collections.emptyList();
+    }
+    return balancerRejections.stream().map(balancerRejection -> new BalancerRejection.Builder()
+      .setReason(balancerRejection.getReason())
+      .setCostFuncInfoList(balancerRejection.getCostFuncInfoList())
+      .build())
+      .collect(Collectors.toList());
+  }
+
   public static HBaseProtos.LogRequest toBalancerDecisionRequest(int limit) {
     MasterProtos.BalancerDecisionsRequest balancerDecisionsRequest =
       MasterProtos.BalancerDecisionsRequest.newBuilder().setLimit(limit).build();
@@ -3711,4 +3744,13 @@ public final class ProtobufUtil {
       .build();
   }
 
+  public static HBaseProtos.LogRequest toBalancerRejectionRequest(int limit) {
+    MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsRequest balancerRejectionsRequest =
+      MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsRequest.newBuilder().setLimit(limit).build();
+    return HBaseProtos.LogRequest.newBuilder()
+      .setLogClassName(balancerRejectionsRequest.getClass().getName())
+      .setLogMessage(balancerRejectionsRequest.toByteString())
+      .build();
+  }
+
 }

hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml

@@ -2011,7 +2011,7 @@ possible configurations would overwhelm and obscure the important.
   </property>
   <property>
     <name>hbase.namedqueue.provider.classes</name>
-    <value>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.impl.SlowLogQueueService,org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.impl.BalancerDecisionQueueService</value>
+    <value>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.impl.SlowLogQueueService,org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.impl.BalancerDecisionQueueService,org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.impl.BalancerRejectionQueueService</value>
     <description>
       Default values for NamedQueueService implementors. This comma separated full class names
       represent all implementors of NamedQueueService that we would like to be invoked by
@@ -2030,4 +2030,13 @@ possible configurations would overwhelm and obscure the important.
       the ring buffer is indicated by config: hbase.master.balancer.decision.queue.size
     </description>
   </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.master.balancer.rejection.buffer.enabled</name>
+    <value>false</value>
+    <description>
+      Indicates whether active HMaster has ring buffer running for storing
+      balancer rejection in FIFO manner with limited entries. The size of
+      the ring buffer is indicated by config: hbase.master.balancer.rejection.queue.size
+    </description>
+  </property>
 </configuration>

hbase-protocol-shaded/src/main/protobuf/Master.proto

@@ -705,6 +705,13 @@ message BalancerDecisionsRequest {
   optional uint32 limit = 1;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Same as BalancerDecision but used for BalancerRejection
+ */
+message BalancerRejectionsRequest {
+  optional uint32 limit = 1;
+}
+
 /**
  * BalancerDecision (LogEntry) use-case specific RPC response. This response payload will be
  * converted in bytes by servers and sent as response to generic RPC API: GetLogEntries
@@ -716,6 +723,10 @@ message BalancerDecisionsResponse {
   repeated BalancerDecision balancer_decision = 1;
 }
 
+message BalancerRejectionsResponse {
+  repeated BalancerRejection balancer_rejection = 1;
+}
+
 service MasterService {
   /** Used by the client to get the number of regions that have received the updated schema */
   rpc GetSchemaAlterStatus(GetSchemaAlterStatusRequest)

hbase-protocol-shaded/src/main/protobuf/RecentLogs.proto

@@ -37,3 +37,8 @@ message BalancerDecision {
   repeated string region_plans = 6;
 
 }
+
+message BalancerRejection {
+  required string reason = 1;
+  repeated string cost_func_info = 2;
+}

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/MasterRpcServices.java

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.procedure.MasterProcedureUtil.NonceProcedu
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.procedure.ServerCrashProcedure;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mob.MobUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.BalancerDecisionDetails;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.BalancerRejectionDetails;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.NamedQueueRecorder;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.request.NamedQueueGetRequest;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.response.NamedQueueGetResponse;
@@ -3048,6 +3049,16 @@ public class MasterRpcServices extends RSRpcServices implements
           .setLogClassName(balancerDecisionsResponse.getClass().getName())
           .setLogMessage(balancerDecisionsResponse.toByteString())
           .build();
+      }else if (logClassName.contains("BalancerRejectionsRequest")){
+        MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsRequest balancerRejectionsRequest =
+          (MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsRequest) method
+            .invoke(null, request.getLogMessage());
+        MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsResponse balancerRejectionsResponse =
+          getBalancerRejections(balancerRejectionsRequest);
+        return HBaseProtos.LogEntry.newBuilder()
+          .setLogClassName(balancerRejectionsResponse.getClass().getName())
+          .setLogMessage(balancerRejectionsResponse.toByteString())
+          .build();
       }
     } catch (ClassNotFoundException | NoSuchMethodException | IllegalAccessException
         | InvocationTargetException e) {
@@ -3075,4 +3086,22 @@ public class MasterRpcServices extends RSRpcServices implements
       .addAllBalancerDecision(balancerDecisions).build();
   }
 
+  private MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsResponse getBalancerRejections(
+    MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsRequest request) {
+    final NamedQueueRecorder namedQueueRecorder = this.regionServer.getNamedQueueRecorder();
+    if (namedQueueRecorder == null) {
+      return MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsResponse.newBuilder()
+        .addAllBalancerRejection(Collections.emptyList()).build();
+    }
+    final NamedQueueGetRequest namedQueueGetRequest = new NamedQueueGetRequest();
+    namedQueueGetRequest.setNamedQueueEvent(BalancerRejectionDetails.BALANCER_REJECTION_EVENT);
+    namedQueueGetRequest.setBalancerRejectionsRequest(request);
+    NamedQueueGetResponse namedQueueGetResponse =
+      namedQueueRecorder.getNamedQueueRecords(namedQueueGetRequest);
+    List<RecentLogs.BalancerRejection> balancerRejections =
+      namedQueueGetResponse.getBalancerRejections();
+    return MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsResponse.newBuilder()
+      .addAllBalancerRejection(balancerRejections).build();
+  }
+
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/balancer/BaseLoadBalancer.java

@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ public abstract class BaseLoadBalancer implements LoadBalancer {
     "hbase.master.balancer.decision.buffer.enabled";
   public static final boolean DEFAULT_BALANCER_DECISION_BUFFER_ENABLED = false;
 
+  public static final String BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED =
+    "hbase.master.balancer.rejection.buffer.enabled";
+  public static final boolean DEFAULT_BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED = false;
+
   protected static final int MIN_SERVER_BALANCE = 2;
   private volatile boolean stopped = false;
 

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/balancer/StochasticLoadBalancer.java

@@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ServerMetrics;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ServerName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.BalancerDecision;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.BalancerRejection;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RegionInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.RegionPlan;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.BalancerDecisionDetails;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.BalancerRejectionDetails;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.NamedQueueRecorder;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.EnvironmentEdgeManager;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.ReflectionUtils;
@@ -129,6 +131,8 @@ public class StochasticLoadBalancer extends BaseLoadBalancer {
   private long maxRunningTime = 30 * 1000 * 1; // 30 seconds.
   private int numRegionLoadsToRemember = 15;
   private float minCostNeedBalance = 0.05f;
+  private boolean isBalancerDecisionRecording = false;
+  private boolean isBalancerRejectionRecording = false;
 
   private List<CandidateGenerator> candidateGenerators;
   private CostFromRegionLoadFunction[] regionLoadFunctions;
@@ -215,11 +219,16 @@ public class StochasticLoadBalancer extends BaseLoadBalancer {
     curFunctionCosts = new double[costFunctions.size()];
     tempFunctionCosts = new double[costFunctions.size()];
 
-    boolean isBalancerDecisionRecording = getConf()
+    isBalancerDecisionRecording = getConf()
       .getBoolean(BaseLoadBalancer.BALANCER_DECISION_BUFFER_ENABLED,
         BaseLoadBalancer.DEFAULT_BALANCER_DECISION_BUFFER_ENABLED);
-    if (this.namedQueueRecorder == null && isBalancerDecisionRecording) {
-      this.namedQueueRecorder = NamedQueueRecorder.getInstance(conf);
+    isBalancerRejectionRecording = getConf()
+      .getBoolean(BaseLoadBalancer.BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED,
+        BaseLoadBalancer.DEFAULT_BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED);
+
+    if (this.namedQueueRecorder == null && (isBalancerDecisionRecording
+      || isBalancerRejectionRecording)) {
+      this.namedQueueRecorder = NamedQueueRecorder.getInstance(getConf());
     }
 
     LOG.info("Loaded config; maxSteps=" + maxSteps + ", stepsPerRegion=" + stepsPerRegion +
@@ -325,6 +334,10 @@ public class StochasticLoadBalancer extends BaseLoadBalancer {
         LOG.debug("Not running balancer because only " + cs.getNumServers()
             + " active regionserver(s)");
       }
+      if (this.isBalancerRejectionRecording) {
+        sendRejectionReasonToRingBuffer("The number of RegionServers " +
+          cs.getNumServers() + " < MIN_SERVER_BALANCE(" + MIN_SERVER_BALANCE + ")", null);
+      }
       return false;
     }
     if (areSomeRegionReplicasColocated(cluster)) {
@@ -353,6 +366,19 @@ public class StochasticLoadBalancer extends BaseLoadBalancer {
 
     boolean balanced = total <= 0 || sumMultiplier <= 0 ||
         (sumMultiplier > 0 && (total / sumMultiplier) < minCostNeedBalance);
+    if(balanced && isBalancerRejectionRecording){
+      String reason = "";
+      if (total <= 0) {
+        reason = "(cost1*multiplier1)+(cost2*multiplier2)+...+(costn*multipliern) = " + total + " <= 0";
+      } else if (sumMultiplier <= 0) {
+        reason = "sumMultiplier = " + sumMultiplier + " <= 0";
+      } else if ((total / sumMultiplier) < minCostNeedBalance) {
+        reason =
+          "[(cost1*multiplier1)+(cost2*multiplier2)+...+(costn*multipliern)]/sumMultiplier = " + (total
+            / sumMultiplier) + " <= minCostNeedBalance(" + minCostNeedBalance + ")";
+      }
+      sendRejectionReasonToRingBuffer(reason, costFunctions);
+    }
     if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
       LOG.debug("{} {}; total cost={}, sum multiplier={}; cost/multiplier to need a balance is {}",
           balanced ? "Skipping load balancing because balanced" : "We need to load balance",
@@ -499,9 +525,27 @@ public class StochasticLoadBalancer extends BaseLoadBalancer {
     return null;
   }
 
+  private void sendRejectionReasonToRingBuffer(String reason, List<CostFunction> costFunctions){
+    if (this.isBalancerRejectionRecording){
+      BalancerRejection.Builder builder =
+        new BalancerRejection.Builder()
+        .setReason(reason);
+      if (costFunctions != null) {
+        for (CostFunction c : costFunctions) {
+          float multiplier = c.getMultiplier();
+          if (multiplier <= 0 || !c.isNeeded()) {
+            continue;
+          }
+          builder.addCostFuncInfo(c.getClass().getName(), c.cost(), c.getMultiplier());
+        }
+      }
+      namedQueueRecorder.addRecord(new BalancerRejectionDetails(builder.build()));
+    }
+  }
+
   private void sendRegionPlansToRingBuffer(List<RegionPlan> plans, double currentCost,
       double initCost, String initFunctionTotalCosts, long step) {
-    if (this.namedQueueRecorder != null) {
+    if (this.isBalancerDecisionRecording) {
       List<String> regionPlans = new ArrayList<>();
       for (RegionPlan plan : plans) {
         regionPlans.add(

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/namequeues/BalancerRejectionDetails.java

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.builder.ToStringBuilder;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.BalancerRejection;
+import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;
+
+/**
+ * Balancer rejection details that would be passed on to ring buffer for history
+ */
+@InterfaceAudience.Private
+public class BalancerRejectionDetails extends NamedQueuePayload {
+
+  public static final int BALANCER_REJECTION_EVENT = 2;
+
+  private final BalancerRejection balancerRejection;
+
+  public BalancerRejectionDetails(BalancerRejection balancerRejection) {
+    super(BALANCER_REJECTION_EVENT);
+    this.balancerRejection = balancerRejection;
+  }
+
+  public BalancerRejection getBalancerRejection() {
+    return balancerRejection;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return new ToStringBuilder(this)
+      .append("balancerRejection", balancerRejection)
+      .toString();
+  }
+}

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/namequeues/NamedQueuePayload.java

@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ public class NamedQueuePayload {
 
   public enum NamedQueueEvent {
     SLOW_LOG(0),
-    BALANCE_DECISION(1);
+    BALANCE_DECISION(1),
+    BALANCE_REJECTION(2);
 
     private final int value;
 
@@ -47,6 +48,9 @@ public class NamedQueuePayload {
         case 1: {
           return BALANCE_DECISION;
         }
+        case 2: {
+          return BALANCE_REJECTION;
+        }
         default: {
           throw new IllegalArgumentException(
             "NamedQueue event with ordinal " + value + " not defined");

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/namequeues/impl/BalancerRejectionQueueService.java

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.impl;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.BalancerRejection;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.balancer.BaseLoadBalancer;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.BalancerRejectionDetails;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.NamedQueuePayload;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.NamedQueueService;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.request.NamedQueueGetRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.response.NamedQueueGetResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded.protobuf.generated.RecentLogs;
+import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.com.google.common.collect.EvictingQueue;
+import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.com.google.common.collect.Queues;
+import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Queue;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+/**
+ * In-memory Queue service provider for Balancer Rejection events
+ */
+@InterfaceAudience.Private
+public class BalancerRejectionQueueService implements NamedQueueService {
+
+  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(BalancerRejectionQueueService.class);
+
+  private final boolean isBalancerRejectionRecording;
+  private static final String BALANCER_REJECTION_QUEUE_SIZE =
+    "hbase.master.balancer.rejection.queue.size";
+  private static final int DEFAULT_BALANCER_REJECTION_QUEUE_SIZE = 250;
+
+  private final Queue<RecentLogs.BalancerRejection> balancerRejectionQueue;
+
+  public BalancerRejectionQueueService(Configuration conf) {
+    isBalancerRejectionRecording = conf.getBoolean(BaseLoadBalancer.BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED,
+      BaseLoadBalancer.DEFAULT_BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED);
+    if (!isBalancerRejectionRecording) {
+      balancerRejectionQueue = null;
+      return;
+    }
+    final int queueSize =
+      conf.getInt(BALANCER_REJECTION_QUEUE_SIZE, DEFAULT_BALANCER_REJECTION_QUEUE_SIZE);
+    final EvictingQueue<RecentLogs.BalancerRejection> evictingQueue =
+      EvictingQueue.create(queueSize);
+    balancerRejectionQueue = Queues.synchronizedQueue(evictingQueue);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public NamedQueuePayload.NamedQueueEvent getEvent() {
+    return NamedQueuePayload.NamedQueueEvent.BALANCE_REJECTION;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void consumeEventFromDisruptor(NamedQueuePayload namedQueuePayload) {
+    if (!isBalancerRejectionRecording) {
+      return;
+    }
+    if (!(namedQueuePayload instanceof BalancerRejectionDetails)) {
+      LOG.warn(
+        "BalancerRejectionQueueService: NamedQueuePayload is not of type BalancerRejectionDetails.");
+      return;
+    }
+    BalancerRejectionDetails balancerRejectionDetails = (BalancerRejectionDetails) namedQueuePayload;
+    BalancerRejection balancerRejectionRecord =
+      balancerRejectionDetails.getBalancerRejection();
+      RecentLogs.BalancerRejection BalancerRejection = RecentLogs.BalancerRejection.newBuilder()
+        .setReason(balancerRejectionRecord.getReason())
+        .addAllCostFuncInfo(balancerRejectionRecord.getCostFuncInfoList())
+        .build();
+      balancerRejectionQueue.add(BalancerRejection);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean clearNamedQueue() {
+    if (!isBalancerRejectionRecording) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    LOG.debug("Received request to clean up balancer rejection queue.");
+    balancerRejectionQueue.clear();
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public NamedQueueGetResponse getNamedQueueRecords(NamedQueueGetRequest request) {
+    if (!isBalancerRejectionRecording) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    List<RecentLogs.BalancerRejection> balancerRejections =
+      Arrays.stream(balancerRejectionQueue.toArray(new RecentLogs.BalancerRejection[0]))
+        .collect(Collectors.toList());
+    // latest records should be displayed first, hence reverse order sorting
+    Collections.reverse(balancerRejections);
+    int limit = balancerRejections.size();
+    if (request.getBalancerRejectionsRequest().hasLimit()) {
+      limit = Math.min(request.getBalancerRejectionsRequest().getLimit(), balancerRejections.size());
+    }
+    // filter limit if provided
+    balancerRejections = balancerRejections.subList(0, limit);
+    final NamedQueueGetResponse namedQueueGetResponse = new NamedQueueGetResponse();
+    namedQueueGetResponse.setNamedQueueEvent(BalancerRejectionDetails.BALANCER_REJECTION_EVENT);
+    namedQueueGetResponse.setBalancerRejections(balancerRejections);
+    return namedQueueGetResponse;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void persistAll() {
+    // no-op for now
+  }
+
+}

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/namequeues/request/NamedQueueGetRequest.java

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ public class NamedQueueGetRequest {
   private AdminProtos.SlowLogResponseRequest slowLogResponseRequest;
   private NamedQueuePayload.NamedQueueEvent namedQueueEvent;
   private MasterProtos.BalancerDecisionsRequest balancerDecisionsRequest;
+  private MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsRequest balancerRejectionsRequest;
 
   public AdminProtos.SlowLogResponseRequest getSlowLogResponseRequest() {
     return slowLogResponseRequest;
@@ -52,11 +53,20 @@ public class NamedQueueGetRequest {
     return balancerDecisionsRequest;
   }
 
+  public MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsRequest getBalancerRejectionsRequest() {
+    return balancerRejectionsRequest;
+  }
+
   public void setBalancerDecisionsRequest(
       MasterProtos.BalancerDecisionsRequest balancerDecisionsRequest) {
     this.balancerDecisionsRequest = balancerDecisionsRequest;
   }
 
+  public void setBalancerRejectionsRequest(
+    MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsRequest balancerRejectionsRequest) {
+    this.balancerRejectionsRequest = balancerRejectionsRequest;
+  }
+
   public NamedQueuePayload.NamedQueueEvent getNamedQueueEvent() {
     return namedQueueEvent;
   }
@@ -71,6 +81,7 @@ public class NamedQueueGetRequest {
       .append("slowLogResponseRequest", slowLogResponseRequest)
       .append("namedQueueEvent", namedQueueEvent)
       .append("balancerDecisionsRequest", balancerDecisionsRequest)
+      .append("balancerRejectionsRequest", balancerRejectionsRequest)
       .toString();
   }
 }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/namequeues/response/NamedQueueGetResponse.java

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ public class NamedQueueGetResponse {
 
   private List<TooSlowLog.SlowLogPayload> slowLogPayloads;
   private List<RecentLogs.BalancerDecision> balancerDecisions;
+  private List<RecentLogs.BalancerRejection> balancerRejections;
   private NamedQueuePayload.NamedQueueEvent namedQueueEvent;
 
   public List<TooSlowLog.SlowLogPayload> getSlowLogPayloads() {
@@ -52,6 +53,14 @@ public class NamedQueueGetResponse {
     this.balancerDecisions = balancerDecisions;
   }
 
+  public List<RecentLogs.BalancerRejection> getBalancerRejections() {
+    return balancerRejections;
+  }
+
+  public void setBalancerRejections(List<RecentLogs.BalancerRejection> balancerRejections) {
+    this.balancerRejections = balancerRejections;
+  }
+
   public NamedQueuePayload.NamedQueueEvent getNamedQueueEvent() {
     return namedQueueEvent;
   }
@@ -65,6 +74,7 @@ public class NamedQueueGetResponse {
     return new ToStringBuilder(this)
       .append("slowLogPayloads", slowLogPayloads)
       .append("balancerDecisions", balancerDecisions)
+      .append("balancerRejections", balancerRejections)
       .append("namedQueueEvent", namedQueueEvent)
       .toString();
   }

hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionServer.java

@@ -719,7 +719,10 @@ public class HRegionServer extends Thread implements
       final boolean isBalancerDecisionRecording = conf
         .getBoolean(BaseLoadBalancer.BALANCER_DECISION_BUFFER_ENABLED,
           BaseLoadBalancer.DEFAULT_BALANCER_DECISION_BUFFER_ENABLED);
-      if (isBalancerDecisionRecording) {
+      final boolean isBalancerRejectionRecording = conf
+        .getBoolean(BaseLoadBalancer.BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED,
+          BaseLoadBalancer.DEFAULT_BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED);
+      if (isBalancerDecisionRecording || isBalancerRejectionRecording) {
         this.namedQueueRecorder = NamedQueueRecorder.getInstance(this.conf);
       }
     }

hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/balancer/TestBalancerRejection.java

@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.balancer;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseClassTestRule;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ServerName;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.LogEntry;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RegionInfo;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.BalancerRejectionDetails;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.request.NamedQueueGetRequest;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.namequeues.response.NamedQueueGetResponse;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.testclassification.MasterTests;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.testclassification.MediumTests;
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.ClassRule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded.protobuf.ProtobufUtil;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded.protobuf.generated.MasterProtos;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded.protobuf.generated.RecentLogs;
+
+/**
+ * Test BalancerRejection ring buffer using namedQueue interface
+ */
+@Category({ MasterTests.class, MediumTests.class })
+public class TestBalancerRejection extends BalancerTestBase {
+
+  @ClassRule
+  public static final HBaseClassTestRule CLASS_RULE =
+    HBaseClassTestRule.forClass(TestBalancerRejection.class);
+
+  static class MockCostFunction extends CostFunction{
+    public static double mockCost;
+
+    public MockCostFunction(Configuration c) {
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected double cost() {
+      return mockCost;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    boolean isNeeded() {
+      return super.isNeeded();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    float getMultiplier() {
+      return 1;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testBalancerRejections() throws Exception{
+    try {
+      //enabled balancer rejection recording
+      conf.setBoolean(BaseLoadBalancer.BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED, true);
+      conf.set(StochasticLoadBalancer.COST_FUNCTIONS_COST_FUNCTIONS_KEY, MockCostFunction.class.getName());
+      loadBalancer.setConf(conf);
+      //Simulate 2 servers with 5 regions.
+      Map<ServerName, List<RegionInfo>> servers = mockClusterServers(new int[] { 5, 5 });
+      Map<TableName, Map<ServerName, List<RegionInfo>>> LoadOfAllTable = (Map) mockClusterServersWithTables(servers);
+
+      //Reject case 1: Total cost < 0
+      MockCostFunction.mockCost = -Double.MAX_VALUE;
+      //Since the Balancer was rejected, there should not be any plans
+      Assert.assertNull(loadBalancer.balanceCluster(LoadOfAllTable));
+
+      //Reject case 2: Cost < minCostNeedBalance
+      MockCostFunction.mockCost = 1;
+      conf.setFloat("hbase.master.balancer.stochastic.minCostNeedBalance", Float.MAX_VALUE);
+      loadBalancer.setConf(conf);
+      Assert.assertNull(loadBalancer.balanceCluster(LoadOfAllTable));
+
+      //NamedQueue is an async Producer-consumer Pattern, waiting here until it completed
+      int maxWaitingCount = 10;
+      while (maxWaitingCount-- > 0 && getBalancerRejectionLogEntries().size() != 2) {
+        Thread.sleep(1000);
+      }
+      //There are two cases, should be 2 logEntries
+      List<LogEntry> logEntries = getBalancerRejectionLogEntries();
+      Assert.assertEquals(2, logEntries.size());
+      Assert.assertTrue(
+        logEntries.get(0).toJsonPrettyPrint().contains("minCostNeedBalance"));
+      Assert.assertTrue(
+        logEntries.get(1).toJsonPrettyPrint().contains("cost1*multiplier1"));
+    }finally {
+      conf.unset(StochasticLoadBalancer.COST_FUNCTIONS_COST_FUNCTIONS_KEY);
+      conf.unset(BaseLoadBalancer.BALANCER_REJECTION_BUFFER_ENABLED);
+      loadBalancer.setConf(conf);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private List<LogEntry> getBalancerRejectionLogEntries(){
+    NamedQueueGetRequest namedQueueGetRequest = new NamedQueueGetRequest();
+    namedQueueGetRequest.setNamedQueueEvent(BalancerRejectionDetails.BALANCER_REJECTION_EVENT);
+    namedQueueGetRequest.setBalancerRejectionsRequest(MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsRequest.getDefaultInstance());
+    NamedQueueGetResponse namedQueueGetResponse =
+      loadBalancer.namedQueueRecorder.getNamedQueueRecords(namedQueueGetRequest);
+    List<RecentLogs.BalancerRejection> balancerRejections = namedQueueGetResponse.getBalancerRejections();
+    MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsResponse response =
+      MasterProtos.BalancerRejectionsResponse.newBuilder()
+        .addAllBalancerRejection(balancerRejections)
+        .build();
+    List<LogEntry> balancerRejectionRecords =
+      ProtobufUtil.getBalancerRejectionEntries(response);
+    return balancerRejectionRecords;
+  }
+}

hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/admin.rb

@@ -1695,6 +1695,25 @@ module Hbase
       balancer_decisions_resp_arr
     end
 
+    #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Retrieve latest balancer rejections made by LoadBalancers
+    def get_balancer_rejections(args)
+      if args.key? 'LIMIT'
+        limit = args['LIMIT']
+      else
+        limit = 250
+      end
+
+      log_type = 'BALANCER_REJECTION'
+      log_dest = org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ServerType::MASTER
+      balancer_rejections_responses = @admin.getLogEntries(nil, log_type, log_dest, limit, nil)
+      balancer_rejections_resp_arr = []
+      balancer_rejections_responses.each { |balancer_dec_resp|
+        balancer_rejections_resp_arr << balancer_dec_resp.toJsonPrettyPrint
+      }
+      balancer_rejections_resp_arr
+    end
+
     #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Stop the active Master
     def stop_master

hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell.rb

@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ Shell.load_command_group(
     compaction_switch
     flush
     get_balancer_decisions
+    get_balancer_rejections
     get_slowlog_responses
     get_largelog_responses
     major_compact

hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands/get_balancer_rejections.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this
+# work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF
+# licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# Retrieve latest balancer rejections maintained in memory by HMaster
+
+module Shell
+  module Commands
+    # Retrieve latest large log responses
+    class GetBalancerRejections < Command
+      def help
+        <<-EOF
+Retrieve latest balancer rejections made by LoadBalancers.
+
+Examples:
+
+  hbase> get_balancer_rejections                       => Retrieve recent balancer rejections with
+                                                         region plans
+  hbase> get_balancer_rejections LIMIT => 10           => Retrieve 10 most recent balancer rejections
+                                                         with region plans
+
+        EOF
+      end
+
+      def command(args = {})
+        unless args.is_a? Hash
+          raise 'Filter parameters are not Hash'
+        end
+
+        balancer_rejections_resp_arr = admin.get_balancer_rejections(args)
+        puts 'Retrieved BalancerRejection Responses'
+        puts balancer_rejections_resp_arr
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end

src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/hbase-default.adoc

@@ -2334,3 +2334,17 @@ The percent of region server RPC threads failed to abort RS.
 .Default
 `false`
 
+[[hbase.master.balancer.rejection.buffer.enabled]]
+*`hbase.master.balancer.rejection.buffer.enabled`*::
++
+.Description
+
+      Indicates whether active HMaster has ring buffer running for storing
+      balancer rejection in FIFO manner with limited entries. The size of
+      the ring buffer is indicated by config:
+      hbase.master.balancer.rejection.queue.size
+
++
+.Default
+`false`
+