| Stable release | 1.7.0 / 17 October 2016
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| Development status | Active | 
| Written in | Java | 
| Operating system | Cross-platform | 
| License | Apache License 2.0 | 
| Website | flume | 
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. It uses a simple extensible data model that allows for online analytic application.