[jira] [Updated] (FLUME-1960) Flume syslog sink missing serializer documentation

["Mike Percy (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Mike Percy updated FLUME-1960:
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    Labels: noob  (was: )
    
> Flume syslog sink missing serializer documentation
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>
>                 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
>              Labels: noob
>
> 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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