# apache/logging-flume

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log-like data

Repository: https://github.com/apache/logging-flume
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/logging-flume
Homepage: https://flume.apache.org/
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: flume, java, apache, api, jvm, library
Last push: 2026-08-25T11:48:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5500, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2567, forks 1541 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:01.209240+00:00)

## What it is
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log-like streaming event data. It uses a flexible source-channel-sink pipeline architecture with tunable reliability, failover, and recovery mechanisms, and integrates with systems like Kafka, HDFS, and HBase.

## Use cases
- collect and aggregate log data from many servers into HDFS
- ship application logs to Kafka or HBase reliably
- build a fault-tolerant streaming data ingestion pipeline
- tail log files and forward events to a central store
- buffer and move high-volume event data between systems
- ingest syslog or HTTP event streams into a data lake

## When to choose
- you need a proven, fault-tolerant log/event collection agent on the JVM
- you already run Hadoop-ecosystem infrastructure and want HDFS/HBase sinks
- you need tunable delivery guarantees (file channels, failover, recovery) for log pipelines

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project - the project was marked dormant by Apache Logging Services in 2024 and users are advised to migrate to alternatives
- you need actively maintained software with recent releases and security patches
- you need lightweight single-host log shipping where tools like Vector, Fluent Bit, or Filebeat fit better

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: streaming, etl, logging, message-queue
- domain: big-data, monitoring, microservices
- platform: jvm, cross-platform
- tags: log-collection, data-pipeline, event-ingestion, apache-project, dormant, fault-tolerant, hadoop-ecosystem, kafka-integration, data-engineering, linux

## Member repositories
- apache/logging-flume (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:01.209240+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:23:23.162117+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/apache/logging-flume (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:01.209240+00:00, sha 71642b7a8798)
  - homepage: https://flume.apache.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:05:54.764200+00:00, sha c3705d0ac8c0)
  - site_page: https://flume.apache.org/releases/1.11.0.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:05:54.773630+00:00, sha 0908cc0d1f01)
  - site_page: https://flume.apache.org/releases/1.10.1.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:05:54.775317+00:00, sha 78bd427dbd3c)
  - site_page: https://flume.apache.org/releases/1.10.0.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:05:54.776897+00:00, sha fd58f934ab66)
  - site_page: https://flume.apache.org/releases/1.9.0.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:05:54.778615+00:00, sha c6fe93a438af)
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.