What is a flume agent?
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Answer / Amit Kumar Bhaskar
An Apache Flume Agent is the primary component of Flume that ingests data from various sources, processes it if necessary, and then writes it to sinks. Agents are responsible for transporting data in batches through channels to their destinations.
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