I've used a utility 'tcpflow' in the past to capture streams. It writes them to files, could potentially read those into flume? On Jul 31, 2014 8:18 PM, "Liu Blade" <hafzc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, > > The scenario is we want to collect data over TCP connection which is send > to backend database server. But it is not possible to use an intrusive way, > which means we would not collect data on servers. > > Is that possible to use libpcap/winpcap to tap into TCP stream, convert it > to Avro/Thrift, and then send to Flume source? > > Very appreciate your suggestions. Please indicate if there are better > options. > > Cheers, > Blade > >