# Apache Flume

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apache-flume/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log and event data. It provides a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows with pluggable sources, channels, and sinks, plus a REST monitoring API for agent metrics.

## Kin Score — 28.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 56.6 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 31.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Apache Flume Java API** — Java API for building custom Flume sources, channels, sinks, and interceptors. Provides interfaces for developing pluggable data ingestion components.
- **Apache Flume Monitoring API** — The Monitoring API from Apache Flume — 1 operation(s) for monitoring.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Apache Flume Agentic Access** — 1 operation

## Security (2)

- **Apache Flume Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Apache Flume Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Apache Flume Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Centralized Log Aggregation** — Collect application logs from hundreds of servers and aggregate them into HDFS, Kafka, or Elasticsearch.
- **Real-Time Log Tailing** — Tail application log files in real time using Taildir source for immediate event processing.
- **Syslog Ingestion** — Ingest RFC-3164 and RFC-5424 syslog events from network devices into centralized storage.
- **Kafka Event Ingestion** — Bridge Kafka topics to HDFS or other storage for batch analytics on streaming event data.
- **Multi-Tier Architectures** — Build tiered data collection with edge collectors forwarding to aggregation agents and final destinations.

## Tags

Apache, Data Collection, ETL, Log Aggregation, Open-Source, Streaming

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/apache-flume/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.