What is the primary purpose of the Flume system?
The main purpose of the Flume system is to collect, aggregate, and move large-scale logs and event data in real-time. It is a reliable, scalable distributed system used to gather data from various sources (such as web servers, applications, sensors, etc.) to central storage or data processing platforms. The Flume system is able to transmit data from source to destination along predefined data flow pipelines, ensuring reliability and guaranteeing data transmission while supporting flexible data transformation and filtering functions. It can be used in various data processing and management scenarios such as real-time monitoring, log analysis, data mining, business intelligence, and more.