Flume is a reliable, distributed service that efficiently collects, aggregates, and moves large amounts of log data. Flume's architecture is based on streaming data flows and is simple and flexible. It is robust and fault-tolerant, with many failovers and recovery options. It is based on a simple extensible data structure that allows for online analytical applications. Flume 1.8.0 has been released by the Apache Flume team. Flume is a distributed, reliable and available service that efficiently collects, aggregates, and moves large amounts of streaming event information.