# Ambari is a more or less intuitive interface for Hadoop & friends. The ability to get a high level view of what your cluster is doing and have a consistent interface for managing it is pretty nice - especially if you have ever tried to run hadoop without Ambari is a more or less intuitive interface for Hadoop & friends. The ability to get a high level view of what your cluster is doing and have a consistent interface for managing it is pretty nice - especially if you have ever tried to run hadoop without ##### Post Metadata - Net upvotes: 1