I was able to resolve my question. Here's the steps I followed in case others have a question about this. After downloading the modules locally as I did above with npm -i <modulename> 1. Copy the module directories to a directory where the zeppelin user will have access to. For example: /groupCode/helium/ 2. Edit the module json file Artifact key to point to the new location. For example, edit /groupCode/helium/ultimate-heatmap-chart/ultimate-heatmap-chart.json Artifact would be /groupCode/helium/ultimate-heatmap-chart 3. create a symlink from the modules json into $ZEPPELIN_HOME/helium. (I had to create the helium directory) For example ln -s /groupCode/helium/ultimate-heatmap-chart/ultimate-heatmap-chart.json $ZEPPELIN_HOME/helium/ultimate-heatmap-chart.json 4. restart Zeppelin in Ambari 5. Go to Zeppelin, choose Helium. Select your module choose Enable ... View more