How can data be collected from flume into kafka?

1 year ago
Sophia Anderson
2 minutes

To transfer data from Flume to Kafka, you need to follow these steps:

  1. Installing and setting up Flume:
  2. Download and install the binary files for Flume.
  3. Set up the Flume agent by specifying the type and parameters of the source and sink.
  4. In the configuration file of Flume, set the sink type to Kafka and specify the relevant Kafka parameters such as bootstrap servers and topic.
  5. Create a Kafka topic:
  6. Create one or more topics in the Kafka cluster to receive data sent by Flume.
  7. Start the Flume agent.
  8. Start the Flume agent using the following command: $ bin/flume-ng agent –conf conf –conf-file –name -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console
  9. Create a Flume configuration file:
  10. Create a Flume configuration file, specifying the types of source and sink as well as their related parameters.
  11. In the sink section, set the type to org.apache.flume.sink.kafka.KafkaSink, and specify the relevant parameters for Kafka.
  12. Here is the content of a sample Flume configuration file:
  13. source1 type =source1 =

    channel1 type = memory
    channel1 capacity = 1000
    channel1 transactionCapacity = 100

    sink1 type = org.apache.flume.sink.kafka.KafkaSink
    sink1 topic =
    sink1 brokerList =
    sink1 requiredAcks = 1
    sink1 batchSize = 20
    sink1 channel = channel1

  14. In the above example, you need to replace,, , and with actual values.
  15. Start the Flume agent and monitor the logs.
  16. Start the Flume agent using the command in step 3 and observe the log information outputted on the console.
  17. If everything is working as expected, Flume will collect data from the specified source and send it to the specified topic in Kafka.

Please note that the above steps are just a basic example and you may need to make further configurations and adjustments based on your specific situation.

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