Troubleshooting Hive
https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5-14-x/topics/cdh_ig_hiveserver2_start_stop.html Check if Hive metastore is running sudo service hive-metastore status sudo service hive-metastore stop sudo service hive-metastore start sudo service hive-metastore restart sudo service hive-server2 stop Check if Hive Server2 is running $ sudo service hive-server2 status Start HiveServer2: $ sudo service hive-server2 start To stop HiveServer2: $ sudo service hive-server2 stop Check Hive warehouse hadoop fs -ls /user/hive/warehouse Connect using Beeline beeline -u jdbc:hive2:// !connect -u jdbc:hive2://