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title:  Cube Build and Job Monitoring
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### Cube Build
First of all, make sure that you have authority of the cube you want to build.

1. In `Models` page, click the `Action` drop down button in the right of a cube column and select operation `Build`.

   ![](/images/tutorial/1.5/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/1 action-build.png)

2. There is a pop-up window after the selection, click `Start Date` and `End date` input box to select date/time range of this incremental cube build.

   ![](/images/tutorial/1.5/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/3 date.png)

4. Click `Submit`, you will see the new job in the `Monitor` page.

   ![](/images/tutorial/1.5/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/4 jobs-page.4.x.png)

5. The new job is in "pending" status; after a while, it will be started to run and you will see the progress by refresh the web page or click the refresh button.

   ![](/images/tutorial/1.5/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/5 job-progress.4.x.png)


6. Wait the job to finish. In the between if you want to discard it, click `Actions` -> `Discard` button. If the job is failed, you can click `Resume` to retry.

   ![](/images/tutorial/1.5/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/6 discard.png)

7. After the job is 100% finished, the cube's status becomes to "Ready", means it is ready to serve SQL queries. In the `Model` tab, find the cube, click cube name to expand the section, in the "Storage" tab, it will list the cube segments. Each segment has a start/end time; Its underlying Parquet file information is also listed.

   ![](/images/tutorial/4.0/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/10 cube-segment.png)

If you have more source data, repeat the steps above to build them into the cube.

### Job Monitoring
In the `Monitor` page, click the job detail button to see detail information show in the right side.

![](/images/tutorial/1.5/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/7 job-steps.4.x.png)

The detail information of a job provides a step-by-step record to trace a job. You can hover a step status icon to see the basic status and information.

![](/images/tutorial/1.5/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/8 hover-step.4.x.png)

Click the icon buttons showing in each step to see the Log.
        
![](/images/tutorial/1.5/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/9 log.png)

![](/images/tutorial/1.5/Kylin-Cube-Build-and-Job-Monitoring-Tutorial/9 log-d.4.x.png)