9 Dgraph HDFS Agent

This section describes the role of the Dgraph HDFS Agent in the exporting and ingesting of data.

• About the Dgraph HDFS Agent
  The Dgraph HDFS Agent acts as a data transport layer between the Dgraph and an HDFS environment.
• Importing records from HDFS for ingest
  The Dgraph HDFS Agent plays a major part in the loading of data from a Data Processing workflow into the Dgraph.
• Exporting data from Studio
  The Dgraph HDFS Agent is the conduit for exporting data from a Studio project.
• Dgraph HDFS Agent logging
  The Dgraph HDFS Agent writes its stdout/stderr output to a log file.