Flume is a reliable, available and distributed service to efficiently collect, aggregate, and transport large amounts of log data. It has a flexible and simple architecture that is based on streaming data flows. The current version of Apache Flume is 1.7.0, which was released in October 2016.
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Apache Flume architecture
The following diagram depicts the architecture of Apache Flume:
Let's take a closer look at the components of the Apache Flume architecture:
- Event: An event is a byte payload with optional string headers. It represents the unit of data that Flume can carry from its source to destination.
- Flow: The transport of events from source to destination is considered a data flow, or just flow.
- Agent: It is...