https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Hue-connects-hiveserver2-timeout-in-hortonworks/m-p/148776#M111302 <P>I find that the temporary solution is restart the hiveserver2 service frequently. Post the full beeswax configuration section of hue.ini.</P><PRE>########################################################################### # Settings to configure Beeswax ########################################################################### [beeswax] # Host where Hive server Thrift daemon is running. # If Kerberos security is enabled, use fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). hive_server_host=localhost # Port where HiveServer2 Thrift server runs on. hive_server_port=10000 # Hive configuration directory, where hive-site.xml is located ## hive_conf_dir=/etc/hive/conf hive_conf_dir=/etc/hive/conf # Timeout in seconds for thrift calls to Hive service ## server_conn_timeout=120 server_conn_timeout=300 # Set a LIMIT clause when browsing a partitioned table. # A positive value will be set as the LIMIT. If 0 or negative, do not set any limit. ## browse_partitioned_table_limit=250 # A limit to the number of rows that can be downloaded from a query. # A value of -1 means there will be no limit. # A maximum of 65,000 is applied to XLS downloads. ## download_row_limit=1000000 # Hue will try to close the Hive query when the user leaves the editor page. # This will free all the query resources in HiveServer2, but also make its results inaccessible. ## close_queries=false # Option to show execution engine choice. ## show_execution_engine=False # "Go to column pop up on query result page. Set to false to disable" ## go_to_column=true [[ssl]] # SSL communication enabled for this server. ## enabled=false # Path to Certificate Authority certificates. ## cacerts=/etc/hue/cacerts.pem # Path to the private key file. ## key=/etc/hue/key.pem # Path to the public certificate file. ## cert=/etc/hue/cert.pem # Choose whether Hue should validate certificates received from the server. ## validate=true </PRE> Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:07:31 GMT imrforever 2017-03-20T15:07:31Z