What is flume in azure

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Flume is a data ingestion tool in Azure used for collecting, aggregating and moving large amounts of log data.

Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data from many different sources to a centralized data store.
It is commonly used for ingesting data into Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) or Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS).
Flume has a simple and flexible architecture that allows for customization and scalability.
It supports various data sources such as log files, syslog, and network sockets.
Flume also provides features like data compression, filtering, and transformation.
Flume agents can be configured to run on multiple nodes for high availability and fault tolerance.