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Flow summaries and flow operations - Apache NiFi Tutorial
From the course: Data Management with Apache NiFi
Flow summaries and flow operations
- [Instructor] At this point our data flow is running. GenerateFlowFile will generate new files which will be written out using PutFile. Now if you want a quick summary of what your flow does, go to the "Summary" tab here from this global menu. This is where you'll come to if you want an overview of your data flow. Now our data flow comprises of two processors, GenerateFlowFile and PutFile. We have none of the other components here, input ports, output ports, or remote process groups, but we do have a single connection, the TransferGeneratedFile. Observe that this connection has transferred exactly one FlowFile of 574 bytes from GenerateFlowFile to PutFile. If you want to visually monitor this connection, you can click on this little chart icon off to the right, and this will bring up a dialogue giving you a visualization of the traffic that passes through this connection. Now, if you want to see FlowFiles in the last five…
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