Flume配置文件：
simple-agent.sources = netcat-source
simple-agent.sinks = spark-sink
simple-agent.channels = memory-channel
#Describe/configure the source
simple-agent.sources.netcat-source.type = netcat
simple-agent.sources.netcat-source.bind = centos
simple-agent.sources.netcat-source.port= 44444
# Describe the sink
simple-agent.sinks.spark-sink.type=org.apache.spark.streaming.flume.sink.SparkSink
simple-agent.sinks.spark-sink.hostname= centos
simple-agent.sinks.spark-sink.port= 41414
simple-agent.channels.memory-channel.type = memory
simple-agent.channels.memory-channel.capacity = 1000
simple-agent.channels.memory-channel.transactionCapacity = 100
simple-agent.sources.netcat-source.channels = memory-channel
simple-agent.sinks.spark-sink.channel = memory-channel但是在启动Flume时，报以下错误：
2019-10-16 11:35:14,559 (conf-file-poller-0) [ERROR - org.apache.flume.node.PollingPropertiesFileConfigurationProvider$FileWatcherRunnable.run(PollingPropertiesFileConfigurationProvider.java:142)] Failed to load configuration data. Exception follows.
org.apache.flume.FlumeException: Unable to load sink type: org.apache.spark.streaming.flume.sink.SparkSink, class: org.apache.spark.streaming.flume.sink.SparkSink
at org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkFactory.getClass(DefaultSinkFactory.java:71)
at org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkFactory.create(DefaultSinkFactory.java:43)
at org.apache.flume.node.AbstractConfigurationProvider.loadSinks(AbstractConfigurationProvider.java:410)
at org.apache.flume.node.AbstractConfigurationProvider.getConfiguration(AbstractConfigurationProvider.java:98)
at org.apache.flume.node.PollingPropertiesFileConfigurationProvider$FileWatcherRunnable.run(PollingPropertiesFileConfigurationProvider.java:140)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:308)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:294)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.spark.streaming.flume.sink.SparkSink
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
at org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkFactory.getClass(DefaultSinkFactory.java:69)
... 11 more解决方案：
由于用到了agent的sink是 org.apache.spark.streaming.flume.sink.SparkSink类型，需要把spark-streaming-flume-sink_2.11-2.4.3.jar复制到flume的lib目录，否则，会报找不到org.apache.spark.streaming.flume.sink.SparkSink类的错误。