Fluentd is a JSON-based, open-source log collector originally written at Treasure Data. Fluentd is specifically designed for solving big data collection problem. Many companies choose Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS) for big data storage. [1] Until recently, however, the only API interface was Java. This changed with the new WebHDFS interface, which allows users to interact with HDFS via HTTP.
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