Known Issues in Apache Kudu

Learn about the known issues in Kudu, the impact or changes to the functionality, and the workaround.

  • Kudu HMS Sync is disabled and is not yet supported

You get "The user 'kudu' is not part of group 'hive' on the following hosts: " warning by the Host Inspector

If you are using fine grained authorization for Kudu, and you are also using Kudu-HMS integration with HDFS-Sentry sync, then you may get the "The user 'kudu' is not part of group 'hive' on the following hosts: " warning while upgrading.

Workaround: Run the following command on all the HMS servers:
usermod -aG hive kudu