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This chapter takes an example to explain how you can generate events and subsequently log them into the console. For this, we are using the NetCat source and the logger sink. Prerequisites To run…

In the previous chapter, we have seen how to fetch data from twitter source to HDFS. This chapter explains how to fetch data from Sequence generator. Prerequisites To run the example…

Using Flume, we can fetch data from various services and transport it to centralized stores (HDFS and HBase). This chapter explains how to fetch data from Twitter service and store…

After installing Flume, we need to configure it using the configuration file which is a Java property file having key-value pairs. We need to pass values to the keys in the…

We already discussed the architecture of Flume in the previous chapter. In this chapter, let us see how to download and setup Apache Flume. Before proceeding further, you need to…

Flume is a framework which is used to move log data into HDFS. Generally events and log data are generated by the log servers and these servers have Flume agents…

The following illustration depicts the basic architecture of Flume. As shown in the illustration, data generators (such as Facebook, Twitter) generate data which gets collected by individual Flume agents running on them. Thereafter, a data…

Big Data, as we know, is a collection of large datasets that cannot be processed using traditional computing techniques. Big Data, when analyzed, gives valuable results. Hadoop is an open-source framework that allows…

Flume is a standard, simple, robust, flexible, and extensible tool for data ingestion from various data producers (webservers) into Hadoop. In this tutorial, we will be using simple and illustrative…