About the Cloudera Data Explorer (Hue) task server in Cloudera Data Warehouse

The Data Explorer task server helps you schedule tasks to clean up Data Explorer documents and the /tmp directory, improving cluster maintenance experience and performance. The task server also improves the file-upload experience, allowing you to upload larger files up to 5 GB.

The task server is enabled by default. Data Explorer superusers or administrators can schedule cleanup jobs from the Task Server page in Data Explorer. They can enable or disable the task server from the Advanced Configuration Snippet in Cloudera Data Warehouse. They can also modify the default behavior, such as the frequency of the cleanup jobs, threshold of the disk space, and so on.

All users having access to Data Explorer can leverage the improved file-upload capabilities from the Data Explorer task server.