[jira] [Created] (FLINK-10081) Asynchronous (un)registration of metrics

["Chesnay Schepler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Chesnay Schepler created FLINK-10081:
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             Summary: Asynchronous (un)registration of metrics
                 Key: FLINK-10081
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10081
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Metrics
            Reporter: Chesnay Schepler
            Assignee: Chesnay Schepler


Currently, whenever a metric is (un)registered the calling thread iterates over all reporters and executes their registration logic, which may involve slow or even blocking operations depending on the reporter implementation. For scheduled reporters this also introduces concurrency as registration can occur while a report is being created, potentially causing exceptions as seen in FLINK-10035.

I propose to make the registration of metrics asynchronous, i.e. when a metric is registered it is simply put in a queue instead that the metrics thread (that is also doing the reporting) would pull from.
This further isolates jobmanager/taskmanager/task threads from user-code, should speed up deployment/shutdown of tasks and makes interactions with reporters single-threaded.



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