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Druid Firehoses

Firehoses describe the data stream source. They are pluggable and thus the configuration schema can and will vary based on the type of the firehose.

Field	Type	Description	Required
type	String	Specifies the type of firehose. Each value will have its own configuration schema, firehoses packaged with Druid are described below.	yes

We describe the configuration of the Kafka firehose example, but there are other types available in Druid (see below).

• consumerProps is a map of properties for the Kafka consumer. The JSON object is converted into a Properties object and passed along to the Kafka consumer.
• feed is the feed that the Kafka consumer should read from.

Available Firehoses

There are several firehoses readily available in Druid, some are meant for examples, others can be used directly in a production environment.

KafkaEightFirehose

Please note that the druid-kafka-eight module is required for this firehose. This firehose acts as a Kafka 0.8.x consumer and ingests data from Kafka.

Sample spec:

"firehose": {
  "type": "kafka-0.8",
  "consumerProps": {
    "zookeeper.connect": "localhost:2181",
    "zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms" : "15000",
    "zookeeper.session.timeout.ms" : "15000",
    "zookeeper.sync.time.ms" : "5000",
    "group.id": "druid-example",
    "fetch.message.max.bytes" : "1048586",
    "auto.offset.reset": "largest",
    "auto.commit.enable": "false"
  },
  "feed": "wikipedia"
}

property	description	required?
type	This should be "kafka-0.8"	yes
consumerProps	The full list of consumer configs can be here.	yes
feed	Kafka maintains feeds of messages in categories called topics. This is the topic name.	yes

StaticS3Firehose

This firehose ingests events from a predefined list of S3 objects.

Sample spec:

"firehose" : {
    "type" : "static-s3",
    "uris": ["s3://foo/bar/file.gz", "s3://bar/foo/file2.gz"]
}

property	description	default	required?
type	This should be "static-s3"	N/A	yes
uris	JSON array of URIs where s3 files to be ingested are located.	N/A	yes

LocalFirehose

This Firehose can be used to read the data from files on local disk. It can be used for POCs to ingest data on disk. A sample local firehose spec is shown below:

{
    "type"    : "local",
    "filter"   : "*.csv",
    "baseDir"  : "/data/directory"
}

property	description	required?
type	This should be "local".	yes
filter	A wildcard filter for files. See here for more information.	yes
baseDir	directory to search recursively for files to be ingested.	yes

IngestSegmentFirehose

This Firehose can be used to read the data from existing druid segments. It can be used ingest existing druid segments using a new schema and change the name, dimensions, metrics, rollup, etc. of the segment. A sample ingest firehose spec is shown below -

{
    "type"    : "ingestSegment",
    "dataSource"   : "wikipedia",
    "interval" : "2013-01-01/2013-01-02"
}

property	description	required?
type	This should be "ingestSegment".	yes
dataSource	A String defining the data source to fetch rows from, very similar to a table in a relational database	yes
interval	A String representing ISO-8601 Interval. This defines the time range to fetch the data over.	yes
dimensions	The list of dimensions to select. If left empty, no dimensions are returned. If left null or not defined, all dimensions are returned.	no
metrics	The list of metrics to select. If left empty, no metrics are returned. If left null or not defined, all metrics are selected.	no
filter	See Filters	yes

CombiningFirehose

This firehose can be used to combine and merge data from a list of different firehoses. This can be used to merge data from more than one firehose.

{
    "type"  :   "combining",
    "delegates" : [ { firehose1 }, { firehose2 }, ..... ]
}

property	description	required?
type	This should be "combining"	yes
delegates	list of firehoses to combine data from	yes

EventReceiverFirehose

EventReceiverFirehoseFactory can be used to ingest events using an http endpoint.

{
  "type": "receiver",
  "serviceName": "eventReceiverServiceName",
  "bufferSize": 10000
}

When using this firehose, events can be sent by submitting a POST request to the http endpoint:

http://<peonHost>:<port>/druid/worker/v1/chat/<eventReceiverServiceName>/push-events/

property	description	required?
type	This should be "receiver"	yes
serviceName	name used to announce the event receiver service endpoint	yes
bufferSize	size of buffer used by firehose to store events	no default(100000)

TimedShutoffFirehose

This can be used to start a firehose that will shut down at a specified time. An example is shown below:

{
    "type"  :   "timed",
    "shutoffTime": "2015-08-25T01:26:05.119Z",
    "delegate": {
          "type": "receiver",
          "serviceName": "eventReceiverServiceName",
          "bufferSize": 100000
     }
}

property	description	required?
type	This should be "timed"	yes
shutoffTime	time at which the firehose should shut down, in ISO8601 format	yes
delegate	firehose to use	yes

TwitterSpritzerFirehose

This firehose connects directly to the twitter spritzer data stream.

Sample spec:

"firehose" : {
    "type" : "twitzer",
    "maxEventCount": -1,
    "maxRunMinutes": 0
}

property	description	default	required?
type	This should be "twitzer"	N/A	yes
maxEventCount	max events to receive, -1 is infinite, 0 means nothing is delivered; use this to prevent infinite space consumption or to prevent getting throttled at an inconvenient time.	N/A	yes
maxRunMinutes	maximum number of minutes to fetch Twitter events. Use this to prevent getting throttled at an inconvenient time. If zero or less, no time limit for run.	N/A	yes