Hue Unable to retrieve logs when executing Hive query from Hue editor

Issue

Hue Unable to retrieve logs when executing Hive query from Hue editor. Hue version is 3.9 and Hive version is 1.2. In the Hue UI, it throws ‘Invalid method name: 'GetLog'’ error.

Error in runscpserver.log

TApplicationException: Invalid method name: 'GetLog'

[09/Mar/2017 14:39:04 -0800] thrift_util  INFO     Thrift saw an application exception: Invalid method name: 'GetLog'

[09/Mar/2017 14:39:04 -0800] hive_server2_lib ERROR    server does not support GetLog

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.9.0/apps/beeswax/src/beeswax/server/hive_server2_lib.py", line 750, in get_log

    res = self.call(self._client.GetLog, req)

  File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.9.0/apps/beeswax/src/beeswax/server/hive_server2_lib.py", line 555, in call

    res = fn(req)

  File "/opt/mapr/hue/hue-3.9.0/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/thrift_util.py", line 377, in wrapper

    raise StructuredException('THRIFTAPPLICATION', str(e), data=None, error_code=502

Solution

Check whether ‘use_get_log_api’ is set to ‘true’ in hue.ini file. Comment it out or make it ‘false’ and restart Hue.