What is an Agent?



What is an Agent?..

Answer / Madhu Sudan Sharma

In Apache Flume, an Agent is a Java program that performs the main tasks of data collection and transfer. An agent consists of a number of interceptors, channels, sources, and sinks working together to ingest and move data.

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