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Apache Flume: Distributed Log Collection for Hadoop - Second Edition
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Apache Flume: Distributed Log Collection for Hadoop - Second Edition

by Steven Hoffman
February 2015
Beginner to intermediate
178 pages
4h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Sink groups

In order to remove single points of failures in your data processing pipeline, Flume has the ability to send events to different sinks using either load balancing or failover. In order to do this, we need to introduce a new concept called a sink group. A sink group is used to create a logical grouping of sinks. The behavior of this grouping is dictated by something called the sink processor, which determines how events are routed.

There is a default sink processor that contains a single sink which is used whenever you have a sink that isn't part of any sink group. Our Hello, World! example in Chapter 2, A Quick Start Guide to Flume, used the default sink processor. No special configuration is required for single sinks.

In order for ...

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