h1. Welcome to Flume! Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. The system is centrally managed and allows for intelligent dynamic management. It uses a simple extensible data model that allows for online analytic application Flume is open-sourced under the Apache Software Foundation License v2.0. h2. Documentation Flume's installation instructions can be found here: https://docs.cloudera.com/display/DOC/Flume+Installation Flume's user guide, cookbook, and FAQ are available here: * http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/flume/UserGuide/index.html * http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/flume/Cookbook/index.html * http://github.com/cloudera/flume/wiki/FAQ h2. Contact us! * User mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/flume-user/topics * Developer mailling list: https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/flume-dev/topics * IRC channel #flume on irc.freenode.net Bug and Issue tracker. * http://issues.cloudera.org/ * https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/FLUME h2. Compiling Flume Compiling Flume requires the following tools: * Java JDK 1.6 * Apache Maven To compile Flume, run `mvn compile`. To build a distribution, run `mvn package`. The final Flume distribution artifact will be in $project/flume-distribution/target/.