17 August 2018

Finer grain privileges in the Sentry App

Aloha Security junkies! In an upcoming release of Hue we've added some Sentry finer grain privileges in the Security app and, as a bonus, we've embedded viewing privileges directly in the Table Browser. Accordingly to what object you are applying privileges to, you will get only the available options now. To summarize what's new, CREATE will work at the SERVER/DB scopes, while REFRESH/ALTER/DROP will work at the SERVER/DB/TABLE scopes.…

1 minute read - Version 4

17 August 2018

Improved dashboards layouts in Hue 4.3

Aloha dashboard rockers! In Hue 4.3 you can find a completely revamped way of building your usual dashboards. Long gone are the strict columns and rows constraints, welcome the drag and drop auto positioning! We also added several other functionalities, the most important ones being: Disappearance of the 'Edit mode' The pencil icon is now a plus In the previous versions of Hue there were two well distinct modes: a display dashboard to display your data and a version where you would have clear options to add new widgets, create columns, remove charts, etc.…

2 minutes read - Version 4

16 August 2018

Live Analytics of Live Apache log files

Quite some time ago (in 2014), a post demoed how to manually ingest some Apache Logs into Apache Solr and visualize via the Dynamic Dashboards. Nowadays, streaming data vs batching data is getting popular. This follow-up is actually levering the Flume / Solr blog post from Cloudera which contains more context about the format and services.  Hue already comes with an Apache Log collection that contain a schema with additional information like the city, country, browser user agent.…

3 minutes read - Version 4

06 July 2018

Improved Oozie Workflow display of large Graphs

Hello Job Scheduler/Oozie users, Previously, the Hue Job browser didn’t display the Oozie workflow Graph in the Graph tab for complex Oozie workflows (when the number of nodes are more than 30 or the workflow depth is more than 24). Since Hue 4.3 and Oozie 5, Oozie provides an API to get an SVG image of the workflows. This new feature helps to display an SVG image of complex workflows in the Dasboard interface.…

1 minute read - Version 4

30 May 2018

Improved SQL Exploration: SQL Context Popover & Data Catalog

Greetings SQL masters! In Hue 4.3 we've made a bunch of improvements to SQL browsing and discovery. The SQL Context Popover, available throughout Hue from the assist panels, editor etc. has a simplified layout with one-click access to the most important information about your SQL entities. We've also introduced a new File Context Popover that allows you to browse and preview files without context switching. The Table Browser has been refreshed, it's been simplified and a couple of new feature have been introduced for Navigator and Navigator Optimizer users.…

3 minutes read - Version 4

11 May 2018

Improved job scheduling monitoring

Two popular medium improvements are coming in the Job Browser to ease the monitoring of submitted jobs. Listing of the running jobs on top With HUE-8268 the experience is getting back to pre-Hue 4 where jobs were split in two categories: Running Completed (Succeeded or Failed) This simplifies monitoring a lot of running jobs. Splitting the list of jobs in "Running" and "Completed"  Disabling filtering of schedules and bundles With HUE-8267 the default time filters of schedules and bundles are removed.…

1 minute read - Version 4

01 May 2018

Simplifying the end user Data Catalog search

Data Catalog Search Before typing any query to get insights, users need to find and explore the correct datasets. The Data Catalog search usability experience has been improved in each release since. It is accessible from the top bar of the interface and offers free text search of SQL tables, columns, tags and saved queries. This is particularly useful for quickly looking up a table among thousands or finding existing queries already analysing a certain dataset.…

2 minutes read - Version 4

05 April 2018

SQL editor variables

Update June 5th 2018: boolean variables were introduced in 4.3 Greetings SQL aficionados! We've been looking for ways to do small steady improvements to the usability of our editors. Sharing In Hue 4.1, we added the ability to share any query you've saved with other Hue users so that you can collaborate and share your hard work. To share, access the editor right hand menu. Once there, you have autocomplete for the users in Hue and you can decide if they should have write access.…

2 minutes read - Version 4

04 April 2018

Hue 4.2 and its Self Service BI improvements are out!

Hi Big Data Explorers,  The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4.2!  Last Hue version compatible with Python 2.6, next will be 2.7 only as a major upgrade is coming next. The focus of this release was to keep making progress on the self service BI theme and prepare the ground for next release that will include an upgraded backend and a revamped Dashboard and more improvements to the Data Catalog and Query Assistance.…

2 minutes read - Version 4 / Release

02 February 2018

Easier administration of Hue with the new Threads and Metrics pages

If you are an Administrator this post is for you! (in the contrary, the SQL Editorwould be a great starting point). In our last post we talked about how to optimally configure Hue with the Analytic Database engines Impala and Hive. This post describes how troubleshooting is getting easier for administrators, with the new Threads and Metrics pages. Those are in the Administration section, which can be accessed from the user menu:…

2 minutes read - Version 4