Flume architecture is a very flexible and customizable composed agent that can be configured as multitiered for a data flow process. The data flow design allows the source or data to be transferred or processed from the source to the destination. The components are wired together in chains and in different tiers called the logical node's configuration. The logical nodes are configured in three tiers, namely, Client, Collector, and Storage. The first tier is the Client that captures the data from data source and forwards the it to the Collector, which consolidates the data after processing and sends it to the Storage tier.
The Flume process and the logical components are controlled by the Flume Master. The logical nodes are very flexible and can be added or deleted dynamically by the Master.