Yeah I’m starting to answer my own question. We’re using 1.3 so we do have Avro. We were trying to avoid installing anything on our client (Source) machines so that we could avoid installing Java on machines we didn’t need it on.
From: Hari Shreedharan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Preventing Data Loss during Restart Hi, What version of Flume are you using? Also note that Syslog is a fire and forget protocol, so when you reconfigure, any events not persisted to the file channel would be lost. Since there is no way of informing the data source that the data was not written to disk, this data could in fact be lost. We recommend using a source which actually does report failure, like Avro/Thrift (available on trunk, not in any release yet) or HTTP. This will allow you to retry if Flume reports failure. Hari -- Hari Shreedharan On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:24 AM, [email protected] wrote: I’ve seen some threads on this online in the past but I can’t seem to find a distinct answer. We’re deploying Flume in a production environment where we’re going to be grabbing log data from syslog and other sources. While Flume supports run time configuration changes we are still noticing data loss during testing even with a file channel. Now, this is a single channel, source, and sink set up, no redundancy. Does anyone know of a clean way to support guaranteed delivery without redundancy? Thanks! Matt This message and/or attachments may include information subject to GDC4S S.P. 1.8.6 and GD Corporate Policy 07-105 and are intended to be accessed only by authorized recipients. Use, storage and transmission are governed by General Dynamics and its policies. Contractual restrictions apply to third parties. Recipients should refer to the policies or contract to determine proper handling. Unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the original message.
