Flume deploy

Flume provide powerful functions to collect and move large logs from different source to storage like hdfs or hbase.

Data collect flow like that:

Every agent contains source, channel and sink.

You can download flume package on https://mirrors.cnnic.cn/apache/flume/, then upload to server.

cd to conf path, you need to create conf file and edit it, there is a example.

# Name the components on this agent
a1.sources = r1
a1.sinks = k1
a1.channels = c1

#Describe/configure the source
a1.sources.r1.type = netcat
a1.sources.r1.bind = localhost
a1.sources.r1.port = 4444

#Describe the sink
a1.sinks.k1.type = logger

#Use a channel which buffers events in memory
a1.channels.c1.type = memory
a1.channels.c1.capacity = 1000
a1.channels.c1.transactionCapacity = 100

#Bind the source and sink to the channel
a1.sources.r1.channels = c1
a1.sinks.k1.channel = c1

After save this conf file, you can start flume with the command

"./bin/flume-ng agent --conf conf --conf-file ./conf/flume.conf  --name a1 -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console"

In this example, you can reopen a seeion and exec "telnet 127.0.0.1 4444", input something and you will get these info on above session.

[root@master conf]# telnet 127.0.0.1 44444
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
this is a test
OK

2019-08-24 23:34:27,076 (SinkRunner-PollingRunner-DefaultSinkProcessor) [INFO - org.apache.flume.sink.LoggerSink.process(LoggerSink.java:94)] Event: { headers:{} body: 74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 74 65 73 74 0D    this is a test. }