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 Flume Server

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Transmit Data (e.g. /etc/passwd in that case)

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

Review Transmitted Data

Appendix

Flume Config