Or you could write a custom sink that removes this event (more work of course) 


Thanks,
Hari


On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Roshan Naik wrote:

> if you have a way to identify such events.. you may be able to use the Regex 
> interceptor to toss them out before they get into the channel.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Jeremy Karlson <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > Hi everyone.  My Flume adventures continue.
> > 
> > I'm in a situation now where I have a channel that's filling because a 
> > stubborn message is stuck.  The sink won't accept it (for whatever reason; 
> > I can go into detail but that's not my point here).  This just blocks up 
> > the channel entirely, because it goes back into the channel when the sink 
> > refuses.  Obviously, this isn't ideal. 
> > 
> > I'm wondering what mechanisms, if any, Flume has to deal with these 
> > situations.  Things that come to mind might be:
> > 
> > 1. Ditch the event after n attempts.
> > 2. After n attempts, send the event to a "problem area" (maybe a different 
> > source / sink / channel?)  that someone can look at later.
> > 3. Some sort of mechanism that allows operators to manually kill these 
> > messages.
> > 
> > I'm open to suggestions on alternatives as well.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -- Jeremy 

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