@admin007  How are you trying to connect? Can yo share the error ? When you are connecting to an impalad running on the same machine the prompt will reflect the current hostname. $ impala-shell If you are connecting to an impalad running on a remote machine, and impalad is listening on a non-default port [21000] $ impala-shell -i some.other.hostname:port_number Hope that starts the conversation ... View more