You might want to get involved in Apache Ambari: http://incubator.apache.org/ambari/
Ambari aims to provide install, configuration and management (including dashboards etc.). For what you are looking for, Ambari uses metrics from various projects in Hadoop ecosystem (hadoop, hbase etc.) to draw dashboard UI etc., it might be something useful for you. Arun On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:01 AM, fabio.pitz...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello everyone, > > in order to provide our clients a custom UI for their MapReduce jobs and HDFS > files, what is the best solution to create a web-based UI for Hadoop? > We are not going to use Cloudera HUE, we need something more user-friendly > and shaped for our clients needs. > > Thanks, > > Fabio Pitzolu -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/