Flume Status File Information

The flume status file maintains the checkpoint to resume reading flume data. It is the point up to where data is read by flume. In the event of flume restart, the data starts processing from the checkpoint location in the flume status file.

The following are the contents of a sample report-log-source file.

{"LastIndex":596,"LastFileName":"report-may-09-18-1111.txt","CreationTime":1525844468189,"SourceName":"report-source"}

In this example, up to line number 596 the data is read from the report-may-09-18-1111.txt flume source file. 1525844468189 is the creation time (in milliseconds) of the flume source file. The report-log-source filename indicates that it reads only the report log files.

Note: The system reads the flume status files in a chronological order.