Hello Bertrand. Thanks very much for the reply! (I love that you we share a common first name/last name!)
I was not aware that there is a syslog sink. I see there's an HDFS sink and a "File Roll" sink, but those do not seem to utilize syslog (I'm very new to this, so I may be misguided). How would I go about setting up such a sync - are you saying I would be able to post the data to an IP/port that Node.js is listening on? Again, many thanks for the assistance! Erik On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Bertrand Dechoux <[email protected]>wrote: > Should it be assumed that structured data are transferred using flume and > that's why Avro is mentioned? One easy solution I can see would be to use a > syslog output that would actually point to your nodejs instance (and not a > real syslog endpoint). > > Regards > > Bertrand > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Erik Bertrand <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm looking to get Flume data transferred to a Node.js server listening >> on a specific port. I'm not interested in actually storing the data >> anywhere, as it's simply using that data to display "current activity" and >> doesn't need to be persist it anywhere. I'm transferring a very small >> amount of data - just a series of IP addresses, actually. So I'd like to >> keep the architecture simple, too. >> >> At first I was thinking I could use the Avro sink to send the data >> directly to Node.js using a dnode <https://npmjs.org/package/dnode> server >> object (i.e. RPC), but there seems to be more to it than the basic setup. >> I'm just not sure how to configure the Node.js side to understand the Avro >> sink RPC request (or if that's even possible). >> >> I've been looking at creating a custom sink to do this; I've not written >> one before, much less written anything in Java, so that'd be new to me. >> Any pointers? >> >> Erik >> >> > > > -- > Bertrand Dechoux
