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Configure Hue with HTTPS / SSL
SSL / HTTPS is often not simple. Here is some light in addition to the Cloudera Security guide that should help. SSL between your browser and Hue To configure Hue to use HTTPS we need a self signed...
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Automatic High Availability with Hue and Cloudera Manager
By default, Hue installs on a single machine, which means Hue is both constrained to that machine’s CPU and memory, which can limit the total number of active users before Hue becomes unstable....
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Export and import your Search dashboards
There is no handy way to import and export your Search Dashboard until Hue 4 and HUE-1660, but here is a manual workaround: ./build/env/bin/hue dumpdata search --indent 2 < data.json then...
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Team retreat in the Phillipines
Hello/Kumusta! After Central America at the beginning of winter, it was again the perfect timing for one more exotic location: the Phillipines! The team flew to the other side of the world on the...
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Hue API: Execute some builtin commands
Hue comes with a set of commands for simplifying the management of the service. Here is a quick guide about how to use them. Get started If using CM, export this variable in order to point to the...
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Hue 3 on HDP installation tutorial
From Andrew Mo (mo@andrewmo.com) Insight Data Science – Data Engineering Fellow Last month I started a guest post on gethue.com demonstrating the steps required to use HUE 3.7+ with the Hortonworks...
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Fixing the YARN Invalid resource request, requested memory < 0, or requested...
Are you seeing this error when submitting a job to YARN? Are you launching an Oozie workflow with a Spark action? You might be hitting this issue! Error starting action [spark-e27e]. ErrorType...
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Export and import your Oozie workflows
There is no handy way to import and export your Oozie workflows until Hue 4 and HUE-1660, but here is a manual workaround possible since Hue 3.8/CDH5.4 and its new Oozie Editor. The previous methods...
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Solr Search UI – How to configure Hue with only the Search App
The Solr Search App is having a great success and users often wonder if they could use it without the Hadoop related apps. As the app is only using the standard Apache Solr REST API and Hue allows to...
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Start developing Hue on a Mac in a few minutes!
You might have already all the pre-requisites installed but we are going to show how to start from a fresh Yosemite (10.10) install and end up with running Hue on your Mac in almost no time! We are...
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HBase Browsing with doAs impersonation and Kerberos
Hue comes with an HBase App that lets you create table, search for rows, read cell content… in just a few clicks. We are now glad to release the last missing piece of security (available in the...
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Add a top banner to Hue!
We have already seen in this post how you can configure Hue in your cluster. But did you know that there’s a property that can make a top banner appear in your Hue installation? This is quite useful if...
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Using NGINX to speed up Hue
Need for Speed! In the soon to be released Hue 3.8, we have added the ability to serve Hue’s static files (images, JavaScript, and etc) with an external server like NGINX. This allows us to...
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More Solr Search dashboards possibilities
The Search dashboards got a series of new options and long awaited features in Hue 3.8. Here is a summary of the major improvements. Regular users can now also create dashboards Previously, only Hue...
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Hueber is launching, just tap for getting your Big Data Cloud!
Our society is becoming more and more ubiquitous. People want instant access to anything, ranging from cars, food, houses… to news, files, messages, photos and even videos. Cloud Computing and Big Data...
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New Apache Oozie Workflow, Coordinator & Bundle Editors
Oozie is one of the initial major first app in Hue. We are continuously investing in making it better and just did a major jump in its editor. This revamp of the Oozie Editor brings a new look and...
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Developer Guide on Upgrading Apps for Hue 3.8
The upcoming Hue 3.8 internals have gone through some major upgrades to improve performance, robustness, and security. The major change stems from upgrading Django from 1.4.5 to 1.6.10, which comes...
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Hive 1.1 and Impala 2.2 support
Hive did a big jump by finally graduating to its 1.0 version version. It is even 1.1 now (equivalent to 0.14). Hue’s Hive and Impala Editor have been updated to take advantages of a series of their new...
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Oozie Dashboard Improvements
In the upcoming Hue 3.8, Oozie Dashboard just got several improvements making them and their navigation even more intuitive (for the Editor revamp, see this). Here is a video demo that sums them up:...
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Beta of new Notebook Application for Spark & SQL
Last year we released Spark Igniter to enable developers to submit Spark jobs through a Web Interface. While this approach worked, the UX left a lot to be desired. Programs had to implement an...
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