Viewing Flume Client Logs

Updated on 2022-11-18 GMT+08:00

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Scenario

You can view logs to locate faults.

Prerequisites

The Flume client has been installed.

Procedure

Go to the Flume client log directory (/var/log/Bigdata by default).

Run the following command to view the log file:

ls -lR flume-client-*

A log file is shown as follows:

flume-client-1/flume:
total 7672
-rw-------. 1 root root       0 Sep  8 19:43 Flume-audit.log
-rw-------. 1 root root 1562037 Sep 11 06:05 FlumeClient.2017-09-11_04-05-09.[1].log.zip
-rw-------. 1 root root 6127274 Sep 11 14:47 FlumeClient.log
-rw-------. 1 root root    2935 Sep  8 22:20 flume-root-20170908202009-pid72456-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root    2935 Sep  8 22:27 flume-root-20170908202634-pid78789-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root    4382 Sep  8 22:47 flume-root-20170908203137-pid84925-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root    4390 Sep  8 23:46 flume-root-20170908204918-pid103920-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root    3196 Sep  9 10:12 flume-root-20170908215351-pid44372-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root    2935 Sep  9 10:13 flume-root-20170909101233-pid55119-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root    6441 Sep  9 11:10 flume-root-20170909101631-pid59301-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root       0 Sep  9 11:10 flume-root-20170909111009-pid119477-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root   92896 Sep 11 13:24 flume-root-20170909111126-pid120689-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root    5588 Sep 11 14:46 flume-root-20170911132445-pid42259-gc.log.0.current
-rw-------. 1 root root    2576 Sep 11 13:24 prestartDetail.log
-rw-------. 1 root root    3303 Sep 11 13:24 startDetail.log
-rw-------. 1 root root    1253 Sep 11 13:24 stopDetail.log

flume-client-1/monitor:
total 8
-rw-------. 1 root root  141 Sep  8 19:43 flumeMonitorChecker.log
-rw-------. 1 root root 2946 Sep 11 13:24 flumeMonitor.log

In the log file, FlumeClient.log is the run log of the Flume client.

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