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Where are the Hive logs on HDInsight cluster?

Issue:

Need to find the Hive client, metastore and hiveserver logs on HDInsight cluster.

Resolution Steps:

1) Connect to the HDInsight cluster with a Secure Shell (SSH) client (check Further Reading section below).

2) Hive client logs can be found at:

/tmp/<username>/hive.log 

3) Hive metastore logs can be found at:

/var/log/hive/hivemetastore.log 

4) Hiveserver logs can be found at:

/var/log/hive/hiveserver2.log 

Further Reading:

1) Connect to HDInsight Cluster using SSH