Re: Flume HTTP Source Handler Request size limit

2017-09-05 Thread Muhammad Yaseen
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. I will take a look at Blob Handler. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Archana Ravindran wrote: > You can try using blob handler in http source. Though blob is for binary, > we were able to push relatively large event. > > For size limit, in our case we were not ab

Use case for Flume

2017-09-05 Thread Gintautas Sulskus
Hi, I have a question regarding Flume suitability for a particular use case. Task: There is an incoming constant stream of links that point to files. Those files to be fetched and stored in HDFS. Desired implementation: 1. Each link to a file is stored in Kafka queue Q1. 2. Flume A1.source moni

Re: Use case for Flume

2017-09-05 Thread Bessenyei Balázs Donát
Hi GIntas, Do you happen to have a config file we could examine? Based on the scenario you have described, I'm thinking of a "multi-agent flow" ( http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#setting-multi-agent-flow ) with a Kafka source at the "start" of the first agent and a HDFS sink at the "en

Re: Use case for Flume

2017-09-05 Thread Denes Arvay
Hi GIntas, What is the average (or expected maximum) size of the files you'd like to process? In general it is not recommended to transfer large events (i.e. >64MB if you use file channel, as this is a hard limit of the protobuf implementation). If your files fit into this limit then I'd suggest t

Re: Use case for Flume

2017-09-05 Thread Gintautas Sulskus
Hi, Thanks for the quick replies, guys. Donat, sorry, I do not have example configs. At the moment I am just considering available solutions to tackle the problem at hand. I would very much prefer Flume for its modular and scalable approach. I would like to find an elegant solution that would be