https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Flume-data-is-not-in-text-format/m-p/110796#M50743 <P>I have configured flume conf file to write the data in text format, however, i couldn't see the data in text format and below is the screen shot. </P><P>I see some non-printable characters intially and then i can see text data. I just want to get rid of non-printable characters. </P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="11020-capture.png" style="width: 826px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/23298i54E21BAE47CB9EB0/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="11020-capture.png" alt="11020-capture.png" /></span></P> Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:25:05 GMT PentaReddy 2019-08-19T11:25:05Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Flume-data-is-not-in-text-format/m-p/110796#M50743 <P>I have configured flume conf file to write the data in text format, however, i couldn't see the data in text format and below is the screen shot. </P><P>I see some non-printable characters intially and then i can see text data. I just want to get rid of non-printable characters. </P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="11020-capture.png" style="width: 826px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/23298i54E21BAE47CB9EB0/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="11020-capture.png" alt="11020-capture.png" /></span></P> Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:25:05 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Flume-data-is-not-in-text-format/m-p/110796#M50743 PentaReddy 2019-08-19T11:25:05Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Flume-data-is-not-in-text-format/m-p/110797#M50744 <P>Above posted data is in Sequence file format. If you are using the HDFS sink, please specify the following on your agent hdfsSink conf:</P><PRE>agent.sinks.hdfsSink.hdfs.fileType = DataStream agent.sinks.hdfsSink.hdfs.writeFormat = Text </PRE> Thu, 05 Jan 2017 00:49:35 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Flume-data-is-not-in-text-format/m-p/110797#M50744 deepesh1 2017-01-05T00:49:35Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Flume-data-is-not-in-text-format/m-p/110798#M50745 <P>Thanks.. It was typo mistake where i didn't capitalize 'T' in fileType</P> Thu, 05 Jan 2017 03:05:44 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Flume-data-is-not-in-text-format/m-p/110798#M50745 PentaReddy 2017-01-05T03:05:44Z