22 July 2016

In this little snippet we will show you how to login into HUE using python requests library. Hue is based on the Django Web Framework. Django comes with user authentication system. Django uses sessions and middleware to hook the authentication system into request object. HUE uses stock auth form which uses “username” and “password” and “csrftoken” form variables to authenticate. In this code snippet, we will use well-known python “requests” library.…

19 July 2016

Did you know that you can change the look and feel of your Hue maps just by specifying two extra variables on the Hue configuration? Here above the default style of Hue's maps; we use the open source library Leaflet to draw them. They also did a great job putting together a list of map providers that can be used in Hue as well: https://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/</a>. Let's display the Esri.…

12 July 2016

Hue already integrates with Apache Solr and provide Dynamic Search Dashboards. With the new SQL Editor of Hue 3.10, Hue opens up to any database, which is great as Solr 6 now provides a SQL interface. Here is demo where we query a Solr collection like we would query a regular Hive or Impala table.    In the Editor  In the notebook   As Solr SQL is pretty recent, there are some caveats, notably Solr lacks support of:…

30 June 2016

Here is the new SQL Editor! Hue now has a generic editor that supports any languages but currently focuses on SQL. It is a single page app that is much faster than before and simpler to use. Here is a list of some important functionalities and a video demo that show them in action: No page reload when switching between queries Live history of running and past queries Enhanced support for Hive and Impala Extendable to any programming language Summary…

30 June 2016

Dear Hue followers and globetrotters, After all these years of traveling around with the team we thought about sharing our process for organizing one of these extremely important events, both for team spirit (especially for a distributed team as we are) and product development. In the past three years we have been to Thailand, Curaçao, Philippines, Israel, Hawaii, Holland, Spain (twice), Nicaragua, Belize and we are currently planning the next one that is gonna bring us to the wonderful country of Malaysia.…

29 June 2016

Presentation of the new SQL Editor.

16 June 2016

With the latest release of Hue 3.10 we've made some major improvements to the Home Page for Hue users. Old Home Page New Home Page Directory and File-based Document Management The first major improvement you'll notice is that all your Hue documents can now be managed via an intuitive directory and file-based interface. Rather than utilizing the tag-based system from older versions of Hue, users can create their own directories and subdirectories and drag and drop documents within the simple filebrowser interface:…

13 June 2016

With the latest release of Hue 3.10, we've added an additional security feature for Hue administrators to enforce and manage idle session timeouts in Hue. We've also improved the experience of re-authenticating into Hue when a user's session is timed out by introducing a new login modal. Hue now offers a new property, idle_session_timeout, that can be configured in the hue.ini file: [desktop] [[auth]] idle_session_timeout=600 When idle_session_timeout is set, users will automatically be logged out after N (e.…

06 June 2016

The Oozie Workflow editor is getting a new generic action that let's you drag & drop any of your Hive query of the SQL Editor. Here it is in action:   Always in sync with the saved query Autocomplete Hive parameter Behave like any other actions, can fork, see the logs… Generates for you the query files in the HDFS workspace  Directly adding Hive queries from the SQL Editor  We hope that you like the ease of use of this new drag & drop.…

02 June 2016

The Sentry app now let's you edit Solr Collection privileges. It previously only support editing permissions of the Hive Tables. It becomes now much easier to control the authorization of all your Solr indexes (until now privileges had to be set through a flat file with a server restart) and make sure that the powerful Dynamic Search Dashboards can be accessed securely by only certain group of users. Here is a video demoing how to configure the access to your Solr data:…