diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index b8650a1ee6..15d24ffe20 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ Release 2.0.4-beta - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5008. Merger progress miscounts with respect to EOF_MARKER.
     (Sandy Ryza via tomwhite)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4693. History server should include counters for failed tasks.
+    (Xuan Gong via sseth)
+
 Release 2.0.3-alpha - 2013-02-06 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/TaskAttemptImpl.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/TaskAttemptImpl.java
index 8d834c3da7..62f00b95c0 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/TaskAttemptImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/TaskAttemptImpl.java
@@ -1183,7 +1183,8 @@ private static JobCounterUpdateEvent createJobCounterUpdateEventTAKilled(
             taskAttempt.nodeRackName == null ? "UNKNOWN" 
                 : taskAttempt.nodeRackName,
             StringUtils.join(
-                LINE_SEPARATOR, taskAttempt.getDiagnostics()), taskAttempt
+                LINE_SEPARATOR, taskAttempt.getDiagnostics()),
+                taskAttempt.getCounters(), taskAttempt
                 .getProgressSplitBlock().burst());
     return tauce;
   }
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/TaskImpl.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/TaskImpl.java
index f0e120421b..d01d9998aa 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/TaskImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/job/impl/TaskImpl.java
@@ -730,7 +730,8 @@ private static TaskFailedEvent createTaskFailedEvent(TaskImpl task, List<String>
         TypeConverter.fromYarn(task.getType()),
         errorSb.toString(),
         taskState.toString(),
-        taId == null ? null : TypeConverter.fromYarn(taId));
+        taId == null ? null : TypeConverter.fromYarn(taId),
+        task.getCounters());
     return taskFailedEvent;
   }
   
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/avro/Events.avpr b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/avro/Events.avpr
index 716f6e2b63..dcb9ca40ac 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/avro/Events.avpr
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/avro/Events.avpr
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@
           {"name": "rackname", "type": "string"},
           {"name": "status", "type": "string"},
           {"name": "error", "type": "string"},
+          {"name": "counters", "type": "JhCounters"},
           {"name": "clockSplits", "type": { "type": "array", "items": "int"}},
           {"name": "cpuUsages", "type": { "type": "array", "items": "int"}},
           {"name": "vMemKbytes", "type": { "type": "array", "items": "int"}},
@@ -226,7 +227,8 @@
           {"name": "finishTime", "type": "long"},
           {"name": "error", "type": "string"},
           {"name": "failedDueToAttempt", "type": ["null", "string"] },
-          {"name": "status", "type": "string"}
+          {"name": "status", "type": "string"},
+          {"name": "counters", "type": "JhCounters"}
       ]
      },
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/JobHistoryParser.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/JobHistoryParser.java
index eb8db667e8..3f8fb54529 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/JobHistoryParser.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/JobHistoryParser.java
@@ -295,6 +295,7 @@ private void handleTaskAttemptFailedEvent(
     attemptInfo.shuffleFinishTime = event.getFinishTime();
     attemptInfo.sortFinishTime = event.getFinishTime();
     attemptInfo.mapFinishTime = event.getFinishTime();
+    attemptInfo.counters = event.getCounters();
     if(TaskStatus.State.SUCCEEDED.toString().equals(taskInfo.status))
     {
       //this is a successful task
@@ -347,6 +348,7 @@ private void handleTaskFailedEvent(TaskFailedEvent event) {
     taskInfo.finishTime = event.getFinishTime();
     taskInfo.error = StringInterner.weakIntern(event.getError());
     taskInfo.failedDueToAttemptId = event.getFailedAttemptID();
+    taskInfo.counters = event.getCounters();
     info.errorInfo = "Task " + taskInfo.taskId +" failed " +
     taskInfo.attemptsMap.size() + " times ";
   }
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent.java
index d2b9354b42..9b5617c01b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskStatus;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Counters;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptID;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskID;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskType;
@@ -36,8 +37,24 @@
 @InterfaceAudience.Private
 @InterfaceStability.Unstable
 public class TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent implements HistoryEvent {
-  private TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletion datum =
-    new TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletion();
+
+  private TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletion datum = null;
+
+  private TaskAttemptID attemptId;
+  private TaskType taskType;
+  private String status;
+  private long finishTime;
+  private String hostname;
+  private int port;
+  private String rackName;
+  private String error;
+  private Counters counters;
+  int[][] allSplits;
+  int[] clockSplits;
+  int[] cpuUsages;
+  int[] vMemKbytes;
+  int[] physMemKbytes;
+  private static final Counters EMPTY_COUNTERS = new Counters();
 
   /** 
    * Create an event to record the unsuccessful completion of attempts
@@ -49,6 +66,7 @@ public class TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent implements HistoryEvent {
    * @param port rpc port for for the tracker
    * @param rackName Name of the rack where the attempt executed
    * @param error Error string
+   * @param counters Counters for the attempt
    * @param allSplits the "splits", or a pixelated graph of various
    *        measurable worker node state variables against progress.
    *        Currently there are four; wallclock time, CPU time,
@@ -58,31 +76,25 @@ public class TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent implements HistoryEvent {
        (TaskAttemptID id, TaskType taskType,
         String status, long finishTime,
         String hostname, int port, String rackName,
-        String error, int[][] allSplits) {
-    datum.taskid = new Utf8(id.getTaskID().toString());
-    datum.taskType = new Utf8(taskType.name());
-    datum.attemptId = new Utf8(id.toString());
-    datum.finishTime = finishTime;
-    datum.hostname = new Utf8(hostname);
-    if (rackName != null) {
-      datum.rackname = new Utf8(rackName);
-    }
-    datum.port = port;
-    datum.error = new Utf8(error);
-    datum.status = new Utf8(status);
-
-    datum.clockSplits 
-      = AvroArrayUtils.toAvro
-           (ProgressSplitsBlock.arrayGetWallclockTime(allSplits));
-    datum.cpuUsages 
-      = AvroArrayUtils.toAvro
-           (ProgressSplitsBlock.arrayGetCPUTime(allSplits));
-    datum.vMemKbytes 
-      = AvroArrayUtils.toAvro
-           (ProgressSplitsBlock.arrayGetVMemKbytes(allSplits));
-    datum.physMemKbytes 
-      = AvroArrayUtils.toAvro
-           (ProgressSplitsBlock.arrayGetPhysMemKbytes(allSplits));
+        String error, Counters counters, int[][] allSplits) {
+    this.attemptId = id;
+    this.taskType = taskType;
+    this.status = status;
+    this.finishTime = finishTime;
+    this.hostname = hostname;
+    this.port = port;
+    this.rackName = rackName;
+    this.error = error;
+    this.counters = counters;
+    this.allSplits = allSplits;
+    this.clockSplits =
+        ProgressSplitsBlock.arrayGetWallclockTime(allSplits);
+    this.cpuUsages =
+        ProgressSplitsBlock.arrayGetCPUTime(allSplits);
+    this.vMemKbytes =
+        ProgressSplitsBlock.arrayGetVMemKbytes(allSplits);
+    this.physMemKbytes =
+        ProgressSplitsBlock.arrayGetPhysMemKbytes(allSplits);
   }
 
   /** 
@@ -103,42 +115,109 @@ public class TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent implements HistoryEvent {
        (TaskAttemptID id, TaskType taskType,
         String status, long finishTime, 
         String hostname, String error) {
-    this(id, taskType, status, finishTime, hostname, -1, "", error, null);
+    this(id, taskType, status, finishTime, hostname, -1, "",
+        error, EMPTY_COUNTERS, null);
+  }
+  
+  public TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent
+      (TaskAttemptID id, TaskType taskType,
+       String status, long finishTime,
+       String hostname, int port, String rackName,
+       String error, int[][] allSplits) {
+    this(id, taskType, status, finishTime, hostname, port,
+        rackName, error, EMPTY_COUNTERS, null);
   }
 
   TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent() {}
 
-  public Object getDatum() { return datum; }
-  public void setDatum(Object datum) {
-    this.datum = (TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletion)datum;
+  public Object getDatum() {
+    if(datum == null) {
+      datum = new TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletion();
+      datum.taskid = new Utf8(attemptId.getTaskID().toString());
+      datum.taskType = new Utf8(taskType.name());
+      datum.attemptId = new Utf8(attemptId.toString());
+      datum.finishTime = finishTime;
+      datum.hostname = new Utf8(hostname);
+      if (rackName != null) {
+        datum.rackname = new Utf8(rackName);
+      }
+      datum.port = port;
+      datum.error = new Utf8(error);
+      datum.status = new Utf8(status);
+
+      datum.counters = EventWriter.toAvro(counters);
+
+      datum.clockSplits = AvroArrayUtils.toAvro(ProgressSplitsBlock
+          .arrayGetWallclockTime(allSplits));
+      datum.cpuUsages = AvroArrayUtils.toAvro(ProgressSplitsBlock
+          .arrayGetCPUTime(allSplits));
+      datum.vMemKbytes = AvroArrayUtils.toAvro(ProgressSplitsBlock
+          .arrayGetVMemKbytes(allSplits));
+      datum.physMemKbytes = AvroArrayUtils.toAvro(ProgressSplitsBlock
+          .arrayGetPhysMemKbytes(allSplits));
+    }
+    return datum;
+  }
+  
+  
+  
+  public void setDatum(Object odatum) {
+    this.datum =
+        (TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletion)odatum;
+    this.attemptId =
+        TaskAttemptID.forName(datum.attemptId.toString());
+    this.taskType =
+        TaskType.valueOf(datum.taskType.toString());
+    this.finishTime = datum.finishTime;
+    this.hostname = datum.hostname.toString();
+    this.rackName = datum.rackname.toString();
+    this.port = datum.port;
+    this.status = datum.status.toString();
+    this.error = datum.error.toString();
+    this.counters =
+        EventReader.fromAvro(datum.counters);
+    this.clockSplits =
+        AvroArrayUtils.fromAvro(datum.clockSplits);
+    this.cpuUsages =
+        AvroArrayUtils.fromAvro(datum.cpuUsages);
+    this.vMemKbytes =
+        AvroArrayUtils.fromAvro(datum.vMemKbytes);
+    this.physMemKbytes =
+        AvroArrayUtils.fromAvro(datum.physMemKbytes);
   }
 
   /** Get the task id */
-  public TaskID getTaskId() { return TaskID.forName(datum.taskid.toString()); }
+  public TaskID getTaskId() {
+    return attemptId.getTaskID();
+  }
   /** Get the task type */
   public TaskType getTaskType() {
-    return TaskType.valueOf(datum.taskType.toString());
+    return TaskType.valueOf(taskType.toString());
   }
   /** Get the attempt id */
   public TaskAttemptID getTaskAttemptId() {
-    return TaskAttemptID.forName(datum.attemptId.toString());
+    return attemptId;
   }
   /** Get the finish time */
-  public long getFinishTime() { return datum.finishTime; }
+  public long getFinishTime() { return finishTime; }
   /** Get the name of the host where the attempt executed */
-  public String getHostname() { return datum.hostname.toString(); }
+  public String getHostname() { return hostname; }
   /** Get the rpc port for the host where the attempt executed */
-  public int getPort() { return datum.port; }
+  public int getPort() { return port; }
   
   /** Get the rack name of the node where the attempt ran */
   public String getRackName() {
-    return datum.rackname == null ? null : datum.rackname.toString();
+    return rackName == null ? null : rackName.toString();
   }
   
   /** Get the error string */
-  public String getError() { return datum.error.toString(); }
+  public String getError() { return error.toString(); }
   /** Get the task status */
-  public String getTaskStatus() { return datum.status.toString(); }
+  public String getTaskStatus() {
+    return status.toString();
+  }
+  /** Get the counters */
+  Counters getCounters() { return counters; }
   /** Get the event type */
   public EventType getEventType() {
     // Note that the task type can be setup/map/reduce/cleanup but the 
@@ -157,16 +236,16 @@ public EventType getEventType() {
 
 
   public int[] getClockSplits() {
-    return AvroArrayUtils.fromAvro(datum.clockSplits);
+    return clockSplits;
   }
   public int[] getCpuUsages() {
-    return AvroArrayUtils.fromAvro(datum.cpuUsages);
+    return cpuUsages;
   }
   public int[] getVMemKbytes() {
-    return AvroArrayUtils.fromAvro(datum.vMemKbytes);
+    return vMemKbytes;
   }
   public int[] getPhysMemKbytes() {
-    return AvroArrayUtils.fromAvro(datum.physMemKbytes);
+    return physMemKbytes;
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/TaskFailedEvent.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/TaskFailedEvent.java
index 77d72e75e7..0d3aea6bb1 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/TaskFailedEvent.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/jobhistory/TaskFailedEvent.java
@@ -18,10 +18,9 @@
 
 package org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
-
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Counters;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptID;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskID;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskType;
@@ -35,7 +34,17 @@
 @InterfaceAudience.Private
 @InterfaceStability.Unstable
 public class TaskFailedEvent implements HistoryEvent {
-  private TaskFailed datum = new TaskFailed();
+  private TaskFailed datum = null;
+
+  private TaskAttemptID failedDueToAttempt;
+  private TaskID id;
+  private TaskType taskType;
+  private long finishTime;
+  private String status;
+  private String error;
+  private Counters counters;
+
+  private static final Counters EMPTY_COUNTERS = new Counters();
 
   /**
    * Create an event to record task failure
@@ -45,45 +54,87 @@ public class TaskFailedEvent implements HistoryEvent {
    * @param error Error String
    * @param status Status
    * @param failedDueToAttempt The attempt id due to which the task failed
+   * @param counters Counters for the task
    */
   public TaskFailedEvent(TaskID id, long finishTime, 
       TaskType taskType, String error, String status,
-      TaskAttemptID failedDueToAttempt) {
-    datum.taskid = new Utf8(id.toString());
-    datum.error = new Utf8(error);
-    datum.finishTime = finishTime;
-    datum.taskType = new Utf8(taskType.name());
-    datum.failedDueToAttempt = failedDueToAttempt == null
-      ? null
-      : new Utf8(failedDueToAttempt.toString());
-    datum.status = new Utf8(status);
+      TaskAttemptID failedDueToAttempt, Counters counters) {
+    this.id = id;
+    this.finishTime = finishTime;
+    this.taskType = taskType;
+    this.error = error;
+    this.status = status;
+    this.failedDueToAttempt = failedDueToAttempt;
+    this.counters = counters;
   }
 
+  public TaskFailedEvent(TaskID id, long finishTime, 
+	      TaskType taskType, String error, String status,
+	      TaskAttemptID failedDueToAttempt) {
+    this(id, finishTime, taskType, error, status,
+        failedDueToAttempt, EMPTY_COUNTERS);
+  }
+  
   TaskFailedEvent() {}
 
-  public Object getDatum() { return datum; }
-  public void setDatum(Object datum) { this.datum = (TaskFailed)datum; }
+  public Object getDatum() {
+    if(datum == null) {
+      datum = new TaskFailed();
+      datum.taskid = new Utf8(id.toString());
+      datum.error = new Utf8(error);
+      datum.finishTime = finishTime;
+      datum.taskType = new Utf8(taskType.name());
+      datum.failedDueToAttempt =
+          failedDueToAttempt == null
+          ? null
+          : new Utf8(failedDueToAttempt.toString());
+      datum.status = new Utf8(status);
+      datum.counters = EventWriter.toAvro(counters);
+    }
+    return datum;
+  }
+  
+  public void setDatum(Object odatum) {
+    this.datum = (TaskFailed)odatum;
+    this.id =
+        TaskID.forName(datum.taskid.toString());
+    this.taskType =
+        TaskType.valueOf(datum.taskType.toString());
+    this.finishTime = datum.finishTime;
+    this.error = datum.error.toString();
+    this.failedDueToAttempt =
+        datum.failedDueToAttempt == null
+        ? null
+        : TaskAttemptID.forName(
+            datum.failedDueToAttempt.toString());
+    this.status = datum.status.toString();
+    this.counters =
+        EventReader.fromAvro(datum.counters);
+  }
 
   /** Get the task id */
-  public TaskID getTaskId() { return TaskID.forName(datum.taskid.toString()); }
+  public TaskID getTaskId() { return id; }
   /** Get the error string */
-  public String getError() { return datum.error.toString(); }
+  public String getError() { return error; }
   /** Get the finish time of the attempt */
-  public long getFinishTime() { return datum.finishTime; }
+  public long getFinishTime() {
+    return finishTime;
+  }
   /** Get the task type */
   public TaskType getTaskType() {
-    return TaskType.valueOf(datum.taskType.toString());
+    return taskType;
   }
   /** Get the attempt id due to which the task failed */
   public TaskAttemptID getFailedAttemptID() {
-    return datum.failedDueToAttempt == null
-      ? null
-      : TaskAttemptID.forName(datum.failedDueToAttempt.toString());
+    return failedDueToAttempt;
   }
   /** Get the task status */
-  public String getTaskStatus() { return datum.status.toString(); }
+  public String getTaskStatus() { return status; }
+  /** Get task counters */
+  public Counters getCounters() { return counters; }
   /** Get the event type */
-  public EventType getEventType() { return EventType.TASK_FAILED; }
+  public EventType getEventType() {
+    return EventType.TASK_FAILED;
+  }
 
-  
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/TestJobHistoryParsing.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/TestJobHistoryParsing.java
index e24cf05d79..2eb6aaa133 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/TestJobHistoryParsing.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-hs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/hs/TestJobHistoryParsing.java
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ public void testHistoryParsingForFailedAttempts() throws Exception {
     }
   }
   
-  @Test
+  @Test (timeout=5000)
   public void testCountersForFailedTask() throws Exception {
     LOG.info("STARTING testCountersForFailedTask");
     try {
@@ -455,6 +455,9 @@ public void testCountersForFailedTask() throws Exception {
       CompletedTask ct = new CompletedTask(yarnTaskID, entry.getValue());
       Assert.assertNotNull("completed task report has null counters",
           ct.getReport().getCounters());
+      //Make sure all the completedTask has counters, and the counters are not empty
+      Assert.assertTrue(ct.getReport().getCounters()
+          .getAllCounterGroups().size() > 0);
     }
     } finally {
       LOG.info("FINISHED testCountersForFailedTask");
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-rumen/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/rumen/JobBuilder.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-rumen/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/rumen/JobBuilder.java
index 479e62e551..2bc5062f9a 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-rumen/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/rumen/JobBuilder.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-rumen/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/rumen/JobBuilder.java
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ public class JobBuilder {
   private Map<ParsedHost, ParsedHost> allHosts =
       new HashMap<ParsedHost, ParsedHost>();
 
+  private org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.JhCounters EMPTY_COUNTERS =
+      new org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.JhCounters();
+
   /**
    * The number of splits a task can have, before we ignore them all.
    */
@@ -459,7 +462,10 @@ private void processTaskFailedEvent(TaskFailedEvent event) {
     TaskFailed t = (TaskFailed)(event.getDatum());
     task.putDiagnosticInfo(t.error.toString());
     task.putFailedDueToAttemptId(t.failedDueToAttempt.toString());
-    // No counters in TaskFailedEvent
+    org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.JhCounters counters =
+        ((TaskFailed) event.getDatum()).counters;
+    task.incorporateCounters(
+        counters == null ? EMPTY_COUNTERS : counters);
   }
 
   private void processTaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent(
@@ -481,7 +487,10 @@ private void processTaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent(
     }
 
     attempt.setFinishTime(event.getFinishTime());
-
+    org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobhistory.JhCounters counters =
+        ((TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletion) event.getDatum()).counters;
+    attempt.incorporateCounters(
+        counters == null ? EMPTY_COUNTERS : counters);
     attempt.arraySetClockSplits(event.getClockSplits());
     attempt.arraySetCpuUsages(event.getCpuUsages());
     attempt.arraySetVMemKbytes(event.getVMemKbytes());
@@ -489,7 +498,6 @@ private void processTaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent(
     TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletion t =
         (TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletion) (event.getDatum());
     attempt.putDiagnosticInfo(t.error.toString());
-    // No counters in TaskAttemptUnsuccessfulCompletionEvent
   }
 
   private void processTaskAttemptStartedEvent(TaskAttemptStartedEvent event) {