What's New in Cloudera Manager 4.6.0

  • The Free Edition of Cloudera Manager is now a part of Cloudera Standard, has been enhanced to include many features formerly restricted to the Enterprise Edition:
    • Multi-Cluster Management -- Manage multiple CDH clusters from a single instance of Cloudera Manager.
    • Centralized Management & Global Time Control -- Manage CDH from a central console and correlate all views along a configurable timeline to simplify diagnosis.
    • Service and Host Monitoring -- View the state of CDH services running on your clusters, and information about the hosts such as CPU, memory, disk usage and network I/O.
    • Security Management -- Configure and manage security across the cluster - including Kerberos authentication and role-based (administrator and read-only) administration.
    • Activity Monitoring -- Consolidate all cluster activity into a single, real-time view including job details, job comparisons and task distribution across the cluster.
    • Proactive Health Checks -- Monitor dozens of service performance metrics and get alerts you when you approach critical thresholds
    • Customizable Charts -- Report on key time-series metrics about services, roles, and hosts.
    • Intelligent Log Management -- Gather, view and search Hadoop logs collected from across the cluster.
  • A 60-day Trial License lets you test the fully-functional Enterprise version of Cloudera Manager for 60 days without needing an Enterprise license. At the end of 60 days, Cloudera Manager reverts to Cloudera Standard if you have not installed an Enterprise license.
  • Support for JobTracker High Availability.
  • Support for installing and managing the Cloudera Search Beta release.
  • Support for a new service (Sqoop2) and new role (WebHCat).
  • Enhanced monitoring for the Impala service and Impala Query monitoring.
  • The Remove From Cluster command has been enhanced so you can now remove a host from a cluster in a single operation.
  • Several bugs have been fixed: see Known Issues Fixed In Release 4.6.0 for details of the most noteworthy.