Chapter 18. Installing and Configuring Apache Flume
You can manually install and configure Apache Flume to work with the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). In a Hadoop environment, Flume is most often used as a log aggregator, collecting log data from many diverse sources and moving them to a centralized data store. Flume can also function as a general-purpose event queue manager.
Use the following links to install and configure Flume for HDP:
For additional information regading Flume, see Apache Flume Component Guide.