--- title: Apache Flume Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Flume Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 22 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Flume works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 22 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Apache Flume Reviews & Product Details Apache Flume is a service designed to efficiently collect, aggregate, and move large amounts of log data. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Flume Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-flume/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-flume/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Google Cloud BigQuery](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud BigQuery") Google Cloud BigQuery 4.5/5(1,224) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) [ ![IBM Db2](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Db2") IBM Db2 4.1/5(683) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-db2/reviews) [ ![Amazon Redshift](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon Redshift") Amazon Redshift 4.3/5(404) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-flume/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 22 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![GOURI S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GOURI S.") GS GOURI S. Technical Lead Data Scientist Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/11/2021 "Apache Flume for near real time data pre-processing" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? The best thing about apache flume is, using flume, it is very easy to interpret the log data in near real-time, and also it supports data collection from variety of data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? What I don't like about Apache flume is it is not as reliable as Apache Kafka. if any message is missed due to any issue, then it is not able to get the message Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? I have used Apache Flume for processing the log data in near real-time, and it is the best fit for processing the log ingestion data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![naveen k.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "naveen k.") NK naveen k. Technology Manager - Cloud Engineering Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/21/2020 "Apache flume Log analysis" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? It was one of the key component in Big data era, and best fit for both batch and stream processing applications. On a personal note it was good fit for simple transformations on data while streaming from source to sink and truly high reliable component. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? How ever it has the issues with Scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? Metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/28/2020 "Collect data from several sources and ingest data into several destinations" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? It can collect large volumes of data from many applications and systems and delivers it to the destination system through high availability using interceptors and channels and fault tolerant using load balancing and fail-over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? It has complex topology. Flume does not support for data replication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Flume: A great mechanism for moving the large volumes of data into any other destination and it is open sourced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? My Goal was to collect data from different sources and ingest the data to different destinations. As flume can take data from several sources using Kafka, HTTP -server, NetCat and files etc and can deliver data to several destinations include Kafka, Cassandra, Couch base, MySQL and logger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Suvam B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Suvam B.") SB Suvam B. Big Data Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/29/2020 "Apache flume can be used for near real time data but not much smooth as that of kafka." 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? It is scalable, reliable and fault tolerance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? Duplicacy. In many cases Apache flume doesnot guarantee unquie message recieved at consumer end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using Apache flume as a connector to bring near realtime data from Pharmaceutical Machine data directly to HDFS for further processing using, raw, cleanse layer and push the output to ERP team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management") EN Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/1/2020 "Moving large amount of data" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? Central Server managing hosts make it easy to monitor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? Big Footprint.... too many lines of java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? Collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Syed (Hussain) Ali Z.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Syed (Hussain) Ali Z.") SZ Syed (Hussain) Ali Z. Principal Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/15/2019 "Best Logging Software I've used for LAMP enviroments" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? High reliability and redundancy ability to perform log shipping via web service sockets etc. Ability to provide TLS/SSL support, Kafka client, Hbase 2 support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? As with many Apache products it is a bear to setup and requires a high level of operational understanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Flume: High learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? I was in an environment that required end-to-end logging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Construction](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Construction") UC Verified User in Construction Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/15/2019 "Great tool!" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? It’s quick to execute and run. Good for smaller batches of information. Very precise! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? It’s not quite as good and streamlined when you have larger data sets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? Positively integrated it in log acquisition solutions (mainly PaaS and Docker) where application log is difficult access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") UA Verified User in Automotive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/4/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Flume for ETL" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? Easy to configure, uses configuration file where we define our source, channel and sink. Can be used for etl Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? Might not work well with Solr and Hbase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? Fast ETL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") IT Verified User in Telecommunications Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/1/2018 "Best tool to download streaming data" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? It Is beat tool for efficiently collect data and move large amount of log files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? It is a little time taking to setup and and freezes if it gets low connectivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? We use it collect data for analytics of our new products coming in market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") IT Verified User in Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/7/2018 "Best tool to fetch buffering data to storage" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Flume? It directly fetches data to our storage in encrypted form from HDFS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Flume? Installation and setup is not that user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Flume solving and how is that benefiting you? Download data and use it for marketing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/10/2018 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-flume/pricing) Apache Flume Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_96b275379465d759df5bffd0099d849a/google-cloud-bigquery.png "Product Avatar Image") BigQuery 4.5/5(1,224) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/apache-flume-vs-google-cloud-bigquery) ## Work at The Apache Software Foundation? Claim this profile to respond to reviews, update product info, and reach in-market buyers. [ Claim this profile ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-flume/claim_requests/new?utm_medium=profile-footer-claim-cta&utm_source=g2) ##### Categories on G2 [Data Warehouse](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-warehouse) ##### Explore More [Leading password management solution for office use](https://www.g2.com/discussions/top-rated-password-management-solutions-for-office-use)[Top ABM analytics tools for enterprise marketing teams](https://www.g2.com/discussions/top-abm-analytics-tools-for-enterprise-marketing-teams)[What ERM tools connect with existing business intelligence, audit and compliance platforms without requiring a separate middleware layer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-erm-tools-connect-with-existing-business-intelligence-audit-and-compliance-platforms-without-requiring-a-separate-middleware-layer) [What platform provides searchable transcripts for audio and video files?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-platform-provides-searchable-transcripts-for-audio-and-video-files)[Leading CMMS for equipment maintenance in the U.S.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-leading-cmms-for-equipment-maintenance-in-the-u-s)[Which Adobe consulting partners bring both technical expertise and strategic pressure-testing to Adobe Campaign implementations?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-adobe-consulting-partners-bring-both-technical-expertise-and-strategic-pressure-testing-to-adobe-campaign-implementations) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)