Hadoop Vaidya is a tool that analyzes Hadoop job performance and provides targeted advice to address issues. It contains a set of diagnostic rules to detect performance problems by analyzing job execution counters. The rules can identify issues such as unbalanced reduce partitioning and map/reduce tasks reading HDFS files as side effects. When run on over 22,000 jobs at Yahoo, it found that 18.79% had unbalanced reduce partitioning and 91% had map/reduce tasks reading HDFS data unnecessarily.