Time for action – logging to the console

It's not always convenient to have to look at log files, particularly when we already have the agent screen open. Let's modify the agent to also log events to the screen.

  1. Restart the Flume agent with an additional argument:
    $ flume-ng agent --conf conf --conf-file 10a.conf --name agent1 -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console

    You will receive the following response:

    Info: Sourcing environment configuration script /home/hadoop/flume/conf/flume-env.sh
…
org.apache.flume.node.Application --conf-file 10a.conf --name agent1
2012-08-19 00:41:45,462 (main) [INFO - org.apache.flume.lifecycle.LifecycleSupervisor.start(LifecycleSupervisor.java:67)] Starting lifec
  2. In another window, connect to the server via curl:
    $ curl ...

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