Helium Overview

What is Helium?

Helium is a plugin system that can extend Zeppelin a lot. For example, you can write custom display system or install already published one in Helium Online Registry.

Currently, Helium supports 4 types of package.

• Helium Visualization: Adding a new chart type
• Helium Spell: Adding new interpreter, display system running on browser
• Helium Application
• Helium Interpreter: Adding a new custom interpreter

Configuration

Zeppelin ships with several builtin helium plugins which is located in $ZEPPELIN_HOME/heliums. If you want to try more types of heliums plugins, you can configure zeppelin.helium.registry to be helium,https://zeppelin.apache.org/helium.json in zeppelin-site.xml. https://zeppelin.apache.org/helium.json will be updated regularly.