On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > > I need to record continuous flow of data with flume syslog source. > However, this data is coming from REST api using our REST service. Now how > do I write to syslog without writing to log4j? Essentially skip writing > locally and write to syslog node that flume is listening on. Is there an > api I can leverage for this? > > Why would you use syslog source if you aren't doing legacy integration > with an existing syslog client? > > If you are going to be writing code or modifying your system, consider > using the Flume Client SDK library to talk to Flume over the reliable Avro > RPC interface. > > i.e. > https://people.apache.org/~mpercy/flume/flume-1.2.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT/docs/FlumeDeveloperGuide.html#client > Thanks I'll take a look at it. I was suggested using syslog and it seemed like easiest way to write events. When data gets written I am assuming it's not in Avro serialized format but rather gets written as sequence of characters. > > Mike > > >
