Provenance Events

Each point in a dataflow where a FlowFile is processed in some way is considered a 'provenance event'. Various types of provenance events occur, depending on the dataflow design. For example, when data is brought into the flow, a RECEIVE event occurs, and when data is sent out of the flow, a SEND event occurs. Other types of processing events may occur, such as if the data is cloned (CLONE event), routed (ROUTE event), modified (CONTENT_MODIFIED or ATTRIBUTES_MODIFIED event), split (FORK event), combined with other data objects (JOIN event), and ultimately removed from the flow (DROP event).

The provenance event types are:

Provenance Event Description

ADDINFO

Indicates a provenance event when additional information such as a new linkage to a new URI or UUID is added

ATTRIBUTES_MODIFIED

Indicates that a FlowFile's attributes were modified in some way

CLONE

Indicates that a FlowFile is an exact duplicate of its parent FlowFile

CONTENT_MODIFIED

Indicates that a FlowFile's content was modified in some way

CREATE

Indicates that a FlowFile was generated from data that was not received from a remote system or external process

DOWNLOAD

Indicates that the contents of a FlowFile were downloaded by a user or external entity

DROP

Indicates a provenance event for the conclusion of an object's life for some reason other than object expiration

EXPIRE

Indicates a provenance event for the conclusion of an object's life due to the object not being processed in a timely manner

FETCH

Indicates that the contents of a FlowFile were overwritten using the contents of some external resource

FORK

Indicates that one or more FlowFiles were derived from a parent FlowFile

JOIN

Indicates that a single FlowFile is derived from joining together multiple parent FlowFiles

RECEIVE

Indicates a provenance event for receiving data from an external process

REMOTE_INVOCATION

Indicates that a remote invocation was requested to an external endpoint (e.g., deleting a remote resource)

REPLAY

Indicates a provenance event for replaying a FlowFile

ROUTE

Indicates that a FlowFile was routed to a specified relationship and provides information about why the FlowFile was routed to this relationship

SEND

Indicates a provenance event for sending data to an external process

UNKNOWN

Indicates that the type of provenance event is unknown because the user who is attempting to access the event is not authorized to know the type