I have a patch up for review for an interceptor that will inject a Timestamp on your events: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1215
Once that goes in I think that will take care of this use case. Mike On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7:36 AM, alo alt wrote: > Hi Guillaume, > > the comm is working on: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1214 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1157 > > cheers, > Alex > > -- > Alexander Alten-Lorenz > http://mapredit.blogspot.com > German Hadoop LinkedIn Group: http://goo.gl/N8pCF > > On May 22, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Guillaume Polaert wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > It's me again. > > I have a question about event headers. > > > > Are there generic headers for all event like timestamp or hostname ? > > I'm using flune-ng like this : exec (iostat) -> memory -> avro+logger // > > avro -> memory -> rollingfile+logger on the same host. Headers are always > > empty. > > [INFO - org.apache.flume.sink.LoggerSink.process(LoggerSink.java:68)] > > Event: { headers:{} body:[B@5421e554 } > > > > How to set/use these headers ? Do I have to use a custom class ? > > > > Thanks, GPO
