HDFS comes with a monitoring web console to verify the installation and monitor the HDFS cluster. It also lets users explore the content of the HDFS filesystem. In this recipe, we will look at how we can access the HDFS monitoring UI and verify the installation.
Let us access the HDFS web console.
http://MASTER_NODE:50070/
using your browser, and verify that you can see the HDFS startup page. Here, replace MASTER_NODE
with the IP address of the master node running the HDFS NameNode.