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 Note that in all of these UIs, the tables are sortable by clicking their headers,
 making it easy to identify slow tasks, data skew, etc.
 
+In YARN, note that the history server only displays completed Spark jobs. One way to signal the completion of a Spark job is to stop the Spark Context explicitly (`sc.stop()`), or in Python using the `with SparkContext() as sc:` to handle the Spark Context setup and tear down, and still show the job history on the UI.
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 # Metrics
 
 Spark has a configurable metrics system based on the