https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Viewing-logs-for-Hive-query-Executions/m-p/164715#M127082 <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/12288/jaadds.html" nodeid="12288">@Amila De Silva</A><P>If you are looking for application logs:</P><PRE>yarn logs -applicationId &lt;application ID&gt;</PRE><P>Example:</P><P>yarn logs -applicationId application_1470266735999_002</P> Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:08:24 GMT bandarusridhar1 2016-08-04T10:08:24Z