Rsyslog provides a plugin named omHDFS which requires lots of work compiling and configuring, and it's not that usable. Here is what I tried before writing this omhttpfs: Build omhdfs for Rsyslog.

Rsyslog config

Legacy config NOT supported.

Example:

module(load="omhttpfs")
template(name="hdfs_tmp_file" type="string" string="/tmp/%$YEAR%/test.log")
template(name="hdfs_tmp_filecontent" type="string" string="%$YEAR%-%$MONTH%-%$DAY% %MSG% ==\n")
local4.*    action(type="omhttpfs" host="10.1.1.161" port="14000" https="off" file="hdfs_tmp_file" isDynFile="on")
local5.*    action(type="omhttpfs" host="10.1.1.161" port="14000" https="off" file="hdfs_tmp_file" isDynFile="on" template="hdfs_tmp_filecontent")

Tested with CDH 5.2.0 + Rsyslog 8.6.0 on CentOS 7

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