There is a typo in your property "cnannel1", hence the property is not set a1.channels.cnannel1.kafka.consumer.timeout.ms = 1000000 Thanks, Rufus On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Jun Ma wrote: > Thanks for your reply. But from what I read, the magic things Flafka does > is that you don't need to have a source, you can directly move things from > channel to sink. > > http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2014/11/flafka-apache-flume-meets-apache-kafka-for-event-processing/ > (see Flume's kafka channel) > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Foo Lim wrote: > >> There's an error that you didn't specify a source: >> >> Agent configuration for 'a1' has no sources. >> > >