yes flume will definitely solve this problem look at flume's source there are multiple ways you can feed the logs to flume .. simplest would be tail -f in the flume exec source
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Shankar <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an application running on multiple EC2 instances. I need to > aggregate the logs generated in those instances to a central location. > i.e., the logs generated on the EC2 instances automatically become > available on the centralized server. I have logs generated by my > application and many 3rd part applications, system logs such as syslog, > secure log etc. > > I have following questions: > 1. Can Flume solve this requirement? > 2. Who is going to feed the log files to Flume agent? Do I need some other > tool to feed my logs to Flume? > > -- > Regards, > Varun Shankar > -- Nitin Pawar
