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[jira] [Commented] (FLUME-1960) Flume syslog sink missing
serializer documentation
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Mike Percy commented on FLUME-1960:
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Rob, thanks for reporting this. Would you be interested in submitting a patch? This is the source file for the user guide:
https://github.com/apache/flume/blob/trunk/flume-ng-doc/sphinx/FlumeUserGuide.rst
Thanks,
Mike
> Flume syslog sink missing serializer documentation
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLUME-1960
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1960
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Documentation
> Components: Docs
> Affects Versions: v1.3.1
> Reporter: Rob Johnson
> Priority: Minor
>
> A special serializer for HDFS Sink was added to Flume a while back, but it's not documented. This serializer is useful when the source is any type of syslog source.
> Without specifying the serializer, the timestamp and host are not logged to the file with the event information, which is pretty useless without the timestamp and hosts.
> The serializer can be configured on an hdfs sink like so:
> agent1.sinks.k1.serializer=HEADER_AND_TEXT
> Without this serializer specified you get (for example):
> adclient[12112]: INFO <bg:krb5.conf> daemon.main Start trusted domain discovery
> as an event.
> When you specify the serializer, the same event looks like this:
> {timestamp=1364380838000, Severity=6, host=myhostname, Facility=4} adclient[12112]: INFO <bg:krb5.conf> daemon.main Start trusted domain discovery
> Which is much more useful.
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