19 September 2014

**Cloudera Enterprise 5.9 includes the latest release of Hue (3.11), the web UI that makes Apache Hadoop easier to use. ** As part of Cloudera’s continuing investments in user experience and productivity, Cloudera Enterprise 5.9 includes a new release of Hue. Hue continues its focus on SQL and also now makes your interaction with the Cloud easier (Amazon S3 specifically in this first version). We’ll provide a summary of the main improvements in the following part of this blog post.…

17 September 2014

Last update March 29th 2017 The editor is used a lot for querying Hive and Impala. Here are some tips on how to manage their resource. But what happens to the query results? How long are they kept? Why do they disappear sometimes? Why are some Impala queries are still “in flight” even if they are completed? Each query is using some resources in Impala or HiveServer2. When the users submit a lot of queries, they are going to add up and crash the servers if nothing is done.…

17 September 2014

This blog post details how to use Kerberos and Sentry in the Hue Search Application. If you only want to use Kerberos, just skip the paragraphs about Sentry.  Kerberos enables you to authenticate users in your Hadoop cluster. For example, it guarantees that it is really the user ‘bob’ and not ‘joe’ that is submitting a job, listing files or doing a search. Next step is configuring what the user can access, this is called authorization.…

11 September 2014

Last Update: January 24th 2018  This guide takes 14.04 but it should be almost the same for 16 or 17. Due to a package bug, we got quite a few questions about how to build Hue consistently. Here is a step by step guide about how to get up and running. First, make sure that you are indeed on the 14.04: lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.…

03 September 2014

Mahalo!  Where was the Hue Team? After a lot of work on the last Hue and its Search App, and more to come for the fall, the team set off for one of its regular island retreats. This time it was: Hawaii, the Big Island!    Similarly to Thailand and Curacao, but this time in the middle of the Pacific ocean, temperatures were tropical, the local vibe was relaxing, snorkeling in the warm blue water was amazing and the food (Poke, Hawaiian BBQ, fresh tuna…) was delicious.…

24 July 2014

December 2020: GitHub pull requests are now prefered https://docs.gethue.com/developer/development/#development-process After the Review Board post, here is another tutorial about becoming an awesome Hue developer: how to run the Hue tests! Hue has two types of tests: unit tests integration tests First, clone the Hue repository and make sure that you have all the pre-requisite packages: git clone [email protected]:cloudera/hue.git Unit Tests The regular unit tests do not require all this setup!…

17 July 2014

December 2020: GitHub pull requests are now prefered https://docs.gethue.com/developer/development/#development-process Note: During the development process if you are facing any problem then, it is recommended to check your issues at https://discourse.gethue.com/ and https://github.com/cloudera/hue/issues?q=is%3Aissue+. If the solution is not found then, feel free to create an issue at https://github.com/cloudera/hue/issues. Here is a tutorial about how to use the code review tool Review Board for a better productivity! Setup Hue project uses Review Board and Pull Requests for code reviews.…

15 July 2014

Hue 3.6 ships with a bug in the Beeswax and Impala apps that might round some big numbers on the query result panels. We've come up with a bookmarklet that solves the problem. Just drag this button Fix the Hue Big Numbers! to your bookmarks bar. Before running any Hive or Impala query in Hue, click on the newly created bookmarklet to fix the bug! As usual feel free to comment on the hue-user list or @gethue!…

02 July 2014

Note: This post is deprecated as of Hue 3.8 / April 24th 2015. Hue now have a new Spark Notebook application.  This talk will describe the architecture of the application and demo several business use cases now made easy with this application. A Hue Spark application was recently created. It lets users execute and monitor Spark jobs directly from their browser and be more productive. The Spark Application is based on Spark Job Server contributed by Ooyala at the last Spark Summit 2013.…

20 June 2014

Hue (3.6 or upcoming CDH5.1) ships with a dynamic dashboard builder for search. We presented the new interface in the previous Search episode. Here is the second part! We show how to index Apache log data and recreate the same dashboard in a few clicks. In this video, we are using real Apache logs from demo.gethue.com, the live Hadoop cluster: For those wishing to skip to the end, a log file ready to be ingested is available here.…