Hue is a set of web applications that enable you to interact with a Hadoop cluster. Hue applications let you browse HDFS and jobs, manage a Hive metastore, run Hive, Cloudera Impala queries and Pig scripts, browse HBase, export data with Sqoop, submit MapReduce programs, build custom search engines with Solr, and schedule repetitive workflows with Oozie.
Hue applications run in a Web browser and require no client installation.
The following figure illustrates how Hue works. Hue Server is a "container" web application that sits in between CDH and the browser. It hosts all the Hue web applications and communicates with CDH components.
To open a Hue application, click the appropriate icon in the navigation bar at the top of the Hue web browser window. To open a second application concurrently (or a second instance of the same application), right-click the icon and select Open link in new tab.
To display the help text for a Hue application, click the Help (
) tab in the Hue navigation bar, then
click the appropriate link in the Help navigation bar at the top of the
Help window.
To log out of Hue, click Sign Out from the pull-down list under the logged-in user name (at the right of the Hue navigation bar).
If Hue detects a misconfiguration, an indicator
appears in the navigation bar at
the top of the page. Clicking this indicator takes you to the Check
Configuration screen
which will indicate the potential misconfiguration(s) with hints about
fixing them.
You can go directly to your own information by selecting username > Profile at the right of the Hue navigation bar.
If authentication is managed by Hue (that is, authentication is not managed via some external mechanism), and you are a superuser, you can use the User Admin application to change password and personal details.
The Hue team strongly values your feedback. The best way to contact us is to send email to hue-user@cloudera.org.
If you're experiencing transient errors (typically an error message saying a service is down), contact your system administrator first.