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> The Flume sink connector pulls messages from Pulsar topics to logs

# Flume sink

# Configuration

The configuration of the Flume sink connector has the following properties.

## Property

| Name           | Type    | Required | Default           | Description                                         |
| -------------- | ------- | -------- | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `name`         | String  | true     | "" (empty string) | The name of the agent.                              |
| `confFile`     | String  | true     | "" (empty string) | The configuration file.                             |
| `noReloadConf` | Boolean | false    | false             | Whether to reload configuration file if changed.    |
| `zkConnString` | String  | true     | "" (empty string) | The ZooKeeper connection.                           |
| `zkBasePath`   | String  | true     | "" (empty string) | The base path in ZooKeeper for agent configuration. |

## Example

Before using the Flume sink connector, you need to create a configuration file through one of the following methods.

> For more information about the `sink.conf` in the example below, see [here](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/blob/master/pulsar-io/flume/src/main/resources/flume/sink.conf).

* JSON

  ```json theme={null}
  {
      "name": "a1",
      "confFile": "sink.conf",
      "noReloadConf": "false",
      "zkConnString": "",
      "zkBasePath": ""
  }
  ```

* YAML

  ```yaml theme={null}
  configs:
      name: a1
      confFile: sink.conf
      noReloadConf: false
      zkConnString: ""
      zkBasePath: ""
  ```