Hello Steve, I think Chukwa would be good choice..It works on top of Hadoop and along with data aggregation it also provides a web portal like visualization tool called HICC.
Regards, Mohammad Tariq On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Steve Ed <sediso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for the layman question. > > > > Whats the best way of writing data into HDFS from outside of the cluster. My > customer is looking for wire speed data ingest into HDFS. We are > considering flume, but initial performance results from flume are very > discouraging. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Steve