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Welcome to Apache Flume
=======================

Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for
efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log
data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming
data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability
mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms.  It
uses a simple extensible data model that allows for online analytic
application.

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   :alt: Agent component diagram

.. rubric:: News

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   <h3>July 26, 2012 - Apache Flume 1.2.0 Released</h3>

The Apache Flume team is pleased to announce the release of Flume version 1.2.0.

Apache Flume 1.2.0 is the third release under the auspices of Apache of the
so-called "NG" codeline, and our first release as a top-level Apache
project! Flume 1.2.0 has been put through many stress and regression tests,
is stable, production-ready software, and is backwards-compatible with
Flume 1.1.0.

Four months of very active development went into this release: a whopping
192 patches were committed since 1.1.0, representing many features,
enhancements, and bug fixes. While the full change log can be found in the
link below, here are a few new feature highlights:

* New durable file channel
* New client API
* New HBase sinks (two different implementations)
* New Interceptor interface (a plugin processing API)
* New JMX-based monitoring support

This release can be downloaded from the Flume download page at:
http://flume.apache.org/download.html

The change log and documentation are available on the 1.2.0 release page:
http://flume.apache.org/releases/1.2.0.html

Your help and feedback is more than welcome!

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   <h3>July 26, 2012 - Flume Meetup NYC</h3>

Strata + Hadoop World (http://strataconf.com/stratany2012) will be
held October 23-25 in NYC. A Flume Meetup is being organized
around this event. This Meetup will be a good place for users to
interact with each other and with Flume developers.

In order to help with organization, a `form <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGRDUUxxbUI3TUJuYnQwMV9sVzJDZEE6MA#gid=0>`_
has been set up with a few questions about what kind of Meetup the community wants, and which evening is best.
Please fill out the `form <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGRDUUxxbUI3TUJuYnQwMV9sVzJDZEE6MA#gid=0>`_.
Feel free to post to the User's mailing list with any questions.

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   getinvolved
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   releases/index
   mailinglists
   team
   source
   license

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