Integrate Flume with MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka
Integrate Flume 1.6 with MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka when you want to write Flume source data to a MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topic or when you want to write MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topics to a Flume sink.
IMPORTANT This component is deprecated. Hewlett Packard
Enterprise recommends using an alternate product. For more information, see Discontinued Ecosystem Components.
You can use Flume and MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka for many different use cases; however, here are a few
examples:
- Write MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topics to file on the MapR filesystem
- To write MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topics to the MapR filesystem, create an agent with a Kafka source and a HDFS sinks.
- Write MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topics to MapR Database
- To write MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topics to MapR Database, create an agent with a Kafka source and a MapR Database sink.
- Write data from any supported Flume source to MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topics
- To write data from any supported Flume source to MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka topics, create an agent with the appropriate Flume source type and a Kafka sink or Kafka channel. For example, you can use a syslogs source to turn logs into a MapR stream topic.
NOTE Before you integrate Flume with MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka, verify that the Streams Client is
installed on all Flume nodes. For more information, see Installing Flume.