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Accessing Cloudera Data Explorer (Hue) assets

Cloudera Data Catalog helps you to explore assets within your Data Lake. Cloudera Data Explorer (Hue) allows you to run SQL queries on Hive assets. The integration between Cloudera Data Catalog and Cloudera Data Warehouse service provides a direct link to the Data Explorer (Hue) instance from the Search page or the Asset Details.

You must fulfill all conditions listed in Prerequisites for accessing Cloudera Data Explorer (Hue) tables and databases for viewing the external link button.

You must activate Cloudera Data Warehouse on your selected environment.

  1. Go to Cloudera Data Warehouse.
  2. On the Overview page, search for your AWS or Azure environment.
  3. Locate the enabled AWS / Azure environment and click Activate.
    This action also creates a default Database Catalogs.
  4. Once the environment is activated and a DB Catalog is created and running, you can create a virtual warehouse as per the requirements.

    For more information about AWS and Azure Environments, see AWS environments overview and Azure environments overview.

    You will now be able to navigate to the Data Explorer (Hue) assets on these virtual warehouses using the links provided by Cloudera Data Catalog.