# Install flume with Homebrew

Hadoop-based distributed log collection and aggregation. Version 1.11.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-22.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:flume
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install flume
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:flume
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.11.0
- **Source summary:** Hadoop-based distributed log collection and aggregation
- **Homepage:** <https://flume.apache.org>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-22T14:03:12-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- flume-ng (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.11.0
## Project history and usage

Apache Flume is a distributed service for collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log or streaming event data, historically associated with Hadoop-era ingestion pipelines.

### Project history

The Apache Flume site describes Flume as a reliable, available service with a simple streaming data-flow architecture and a flexible event model for online analytics. Its user guide centers on agents made of sources, channels, and sinks that are wired together in properties files.

Apache's release news records a long 1.x series as an Apache top-level project, with stable production-ready releases from the early 2010s through the 1.11.0 release in 2022.

### Adoption history

Flume became a common Hadoop-adjacent log collection component by integrating with HDFS, HBase, Hive, Kafka, Avro, Thrift, syslog, netcat, Elasticsearch, and other ingestion or storage systems across its 1.x releases.

The 2014 Apache Flume 1.4.0 release notes emphasize plugins.d support, embedding agents, Avro and HDFS improvements, and numerous contributors from Git/SVN logs, showing the project maturing as an extensible ingestion platform.

### How it is used

Operators start agents with flume-ng, pass an agent name, config directory, and config file or URI, and define sources, channels, and sinks in properties-style configuration. Typical topologies include fan-in collection from many log producers, fan-out routing, RPC ingestion, and delivery to storage or analytics systems.

### Why package nerds care

Flume is package-nerd significant as a classic Java distribution package: shell launchers, conf directories, plugin directories, many optional connectors, Hadoop ecosystem dependencies, and security-sensitive logging/configuration behavior all affect how downstream packages are assembled.

Its history also captures a transition in log ingestion packaging from Hadoop-era batch and HDFS pipelines toward Kafka and cloud-native collectors.

### Timeline

- 2013: Apache Flume 1.4.0 was released as the fourth Flume release as an Apache top-level project.
- 2015: Apache Flume 1.6.0 added Kafka source/sink support, a Kafka channel, Hive Streaming sink support, and end-to-end authentication.
- 2017: Apache Flume 1.8.0 added features including Taildir source and environment-variable support in configuration files.
- 2019: Apache Flume 1.9.0 added better SSL/TLS support, configuration filters, and Kafka client updates.
- 2022: Apache Flume 1.11.0 was released with Spring Boot deployment support and Kafka source/sink improvements.

### Related projects

- Apache Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, Hive, Kafka, Avro, and Thrift are major ecosystem projects connected to Flume sources, channels, sinks, or release features.
- Apache BigTop is mentioned in Apache Flume release notes as a downstream distribution that shipped Flume binaries for a specific compatibility target.

### Sources

- <https://flume.apache.org/>
- <https://flume.apache.org/releases/content/1.11.0/FlumeUserGuide.html>
- <https://flume.apache.org/source.html>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/flume.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/flume.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph