Cloudera Manager is an end-to-end application for managing CDH clusters. Cloudera Manager provides granular visibility into and control over every part of the CDH cluster—empowering operators to improve performance, enhance quality of service, increase compliance, and reduce administrative costs. With Cloudera Manager, you can easily deploy and centrally operate the complete CDH stack and other managed services. The application automates the installation process, reducing deployment time from weeks to minutes; gives you a cluster-wide, real-time view of hosts and services running; provides a single, central console to enact configuration changes across your cluster; and incorporates a full range of reporting and diagnostic tools to help you optimize performance and utilization. Cloudera Manager also provides an API you can use to automate cluster operations.

The following topics from the core Cloudera Enterprise documentation library can help you understand Cloudera Manager concepts and how to use Cloudera Manager to manage, monitor, and upgrade your deployment. They are listed by broad category:

• Learn about Cloudera Manager
• Installing and Upgrading
• Managing CDH using Cloudera Manager
• Monitoring CDH using Cloudera Manager
• Managing CDH using the Cloudera Manager API