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Hari Shreedharan commented on FLUME-1339:
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Patrick:
Thanks for looking into this.
If strong durability is a requirement for something that tails the logs, then
you are right. It would simply be better to just add a higher performance
channel, and still use an agent locally.
Also note that all our standalone clients/API just try to append to a flume
agent and throw if the append fails.
I am not sure of the use-cases, but users are likely to expect some amount of
durability or fail-retry semantics.
> Implement an exec source like client API
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> Key: FLUME-1339
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1339
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Hari Shreedharan
> Assignee: Patrick Wendell
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> Originally when the exec source was implemented there was no SDK. It would be
> useful to have an API provided in the sdk that works like the exec source,
> thus removing the requirement of having an entire agent on hosts where the
> exec source is used for tailing logs.
> Maybe we can provide a standalone client that implements it too, which users
> can use off the shelf.
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