Apache Flume is a data ingestion tool, which is used to move large amounts of data from various sources to a centralized data store for analysis. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the installation process of Flume on MXLinux.
Flume is built on Java, so we need to install the Java runtime environment (JRE) on your system. Open the terminal and type the following command to install the OpenJDK:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre
You can download the latest version of Flume from the official Apache Flume website. Open the terminal and type the following command to download Flume:
wget http://wwwftp.ciril.fr/pub/apache/flume/1.9.0/apache-flume-1.9.0-bin.tar.gz
After the download is complete, extract the .tar.gz file with the following command:
tar -zxvf apache-flume-1.9.0-bin.tar.gz
Flume requires configuration files to run. There are several configuration files available, but we will be using the default configuration file called conf/flume.conf. Open the terminal, navigate to the extracted folder apache-flume-1.9.0-bin, and type the following command to edit the flume.conf file:
cd apache-flume-1.9.0-bin
nano conf/flume.conf
Now we can start Flume by running the following command:
bin/flume-ng agent --conf ./conf/ -f ./conf/flume.conf -n a1 -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console
That's it! You have successfully installed and configured Flume on your MXLinux system. Now you can use Flume to ingest data from various sources and store it in a centralized data store for further analysis.
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