Overview

Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows.

Management

Startup

Startup Flume Server - Terminal won't return to bash

This terminal won't exit back to shell. Also you can use teh following command if you want more logging:

Startup Flume v2

Transmit Data

Transmit Data (e.g. /etc/passwd in that case) - Terminal won't return to bash

The transmitting of the data will be visible on the previous terminal as follows:

Review Transmitted Data

Appendix

Flume Config