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id: io-flume-source title: Flume source connector sidebar_label: “Flume source connector”

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The Flume source connector pulls messages from logs to Pulsar topics.

Configuration

The configuration of the Flume source connector has the following properties.

Property

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	String	true	"" (empty string)	The name of the agent.
confFile	String	true	"" (empty string)	The configuration file.
noReloadConf	Boolean	false	false	Whether to reload configuration file if changed.
zkConnString	String	true	"" (empty string)	The ZooKeeper connection.
zkBasePath	String	true	"" (empty string)	The base path in ZooKeeper for agent configuration.

Example

Before using the Flume source connector, you need to create a configuration file through one of the following methods.

For more information about the source.conf in the example below, see here.

• JSON

  {
     "configs": {
        "name": "a1",
        "confFile": "source.conf",
        "noReloadConf": "false",
        "zkConnString": "",
        "zkBasePath": ""
     }
  }
  

• YAML

  configs:
      name: a1
      confFile: source.conf
      noReloadConf: false
      zkConnString: ""
      zkBasePath: ""