Synopsis: flogger -h : [-t :] Description: flogger is a commandline utility that will send data to a flume node listening on specified : : is mandatory. flogger will optionally tag the data with specified : Prerequisites for flogger installation: 1. Linux 2. Thrift installed Prerequisites for flogger Testing: 1. Hadoop installed 2. Flume installed 3. A Flume node listening on a port e.g.: flume dump 'rpcSource(12345)' Intallation: From the 'contrib/flogger' directory 1. make 2. sudo make install Usage: 1. For instance, run a flume node on localhost and port:12345 $bin/flume dump 'rpcSource(12345)' 2. On a machine where flogger is installed $flogger -h localhost:12345 my message In above e.g. the flume node will dump the message to console like [INFO Tue Aug 31 20:51:12 PDT 2010] my message 3. $top | flogger -h localhost:12345 will send the output of top to the flume node.