18 June 2014

Similarly to the JobTracker High Availability configuration for MR1, Hue supports (since today’s date in master or Hue 3.7 or CDH5.1) more than one Resource Manager in case the Resource Manager goes down. Hue will automatically pick up the active Resource Manager even if it failed over. This is possible because: When submitting Oozie jobs, the logical name of the Resource Manager is used instead of the hostname of the current Resource Manager Job Browser will automatically look for the active Resource Manager API if needed Here is an example of configuration for the [[yarn_clusters]] section in hue.…

16 June 2014

Note: This post is deprecated as of Hue 3.8 / April 24th 2015. Hue now has a new Spark Notebook application.  Hue ships with Spark Application that lets you submit Scala and Java Spark jobs directly from your Web browser. The open source Spark Job Server is used for communicating with Spark (e.g. for listing, submitting Spark jobs, retrieving the results, creating contexts…). Here are more details about how to run the Spark Job server as a service.…

12 June 2014

This presentation describes how Hue can leverage the LDAP or SAML authentication system and security model of your company.

12 June 2014

A Web proxy lets you centralize all the access to a certain URL and prettify the address (e.g. ec2-54-247-321-151.compute-1.amazonaws.com --> demo.gethue.com). Have you ever wondered how we got Hue working under a proxy on demo.gethue.com? (if you missed the Cluster setup video, here it is!) Here's a sample configuration we use on our servers. We know the Apache web server pretty well so we went for it. We even configured the server to display a custom error page in case the Hue server is down/not working.…

11 June 2014

Hue 3.6+ ships with three font icon sets: Font Awesome 4 (http://fontawesome.io/), the Hue Filetypes font and the Hue Chart font that includes some basic charts you might need. The icons are available in the Hue master or in this zip file: When you want to use the new icons in your app, you have first to import the Hue Charts css in your .mako template:  <link href="/static/ext/css/hue-charts.css" rel="stylesheet"> and then define you icons with the same way you would do with Font Awesome.…

05 June 2014

This talk describes how Hue can be integrated with existing Hadoop deployments with minimal changes/disturbances. Enrico covers details on how Hue can leverage the existing authentication system and security model of your company. http://2014.budapestdwforum.com/talks/#enricoberti Enrico replying to questions

02 June 2014

Hi Indiana Joneses of Big Data, The Hue Team is glad to release Hue 3.6 and its new Search app! A tarball is available as well as documentation and release notes. Example of dynamic dashboard This new version comes with many improvements (784!), for example: A revamped search experience with Dynamic visualization of results Drag & Drop dashboard builder Text, Timeline, Pie, Line, Bar, Map, Filters, Grid and HTML widgets Solr Index creation wizard from a file View Snappy compressed Avro/Parquet files Impala HA Hue 3.…

02 June 2014

Hue 3.6 and a team retreat in Curacao bring the second version of the previous Search App to some higher standards. The user experience has been greatly improved as now the app provides a very easy way to build custom dashboards and visualizations. Here is a video demoing how to interactively explore some real Apache Log data coming from the live Hue of demo.gethue.com. In just a few clicks, we look for pages with errors, what are the most used Hue apps, the top Web Browsers or inspect the user traffic on a gradient colored World map:…

30 May 2014

Hue allows you to authenticate with several services like your company LDAP, OAuth, OpenId, SAML etc. This blog post covers how to integrate with linux account names in Hue by synchronizing with the underlying system. Tutorial The following will guide you in importing Linux accounts and groups into Hue: Ensure the ‘hadoop’ group is on the system. See the ‘Hadoop group’ section below to learn to how to verify this in different environments.…

29 May 2014

Hue 3.6 (coming up this week) LDAP configuration has been drastically improved to enable multiple server support. Here is a quick guide on how to configure LDAP in Hue using this new configuration model. How it works As described in How to Make Hadoop Accessible to your Employees with Hue, there are several configuration parameters available. These have been transferred over to the new way of configuring LDAP: server declarations.…