[jira] [Commented] (BEAM-11213) Beam metrics should be displayed in Spark UI

["Kenneth Knowles (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Kenneth Knowles commented on BEAM-11213:
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I see there are some PRs attached to this. Is it resolved? I have removed the Fix Version because it does not seem like it is a critical regression.

> Beam metrics should be displayed in Spark UI
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>
>                 Key: BEAM-11213
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-11213
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: runner-spark
>            Reporter: Kyle Weaver
>            Assignee: Tomasz Szerszen
>            Priority: P2
>              Labels: portability-spark
>          Time Spent: 11h 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> All Beam metrics are visible in the Spark UI in a single accumulator value (in the "Accumulators" tab), which is a large, hard-to-read blob. Originally, this blob was rendered in a bespoke format (https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/ead80b469ffeeddcd8e9e5c8dc462eec0b0ffc6b/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/metrics/MetricQueryResults.java#L63-L72). I changed the format to JSON so it could be easily deserialized (BEAM-9600). But then an issue was filed (BEAM-10294) reporting that the new JSON format was harder to read than the original bespoke format. The temporary fix was to revert to the bespoke format in Spark, while allowing Flink to continue to use JSON. However, if Beam metrics are only visible as an accumulator, then they are also unreadable because the payloads are in binary form (BEAM-10719).
> Having metrics visible in Spark's "Metrics" tab would A) make metrics easier to read (even compared to the bespoke accumulator string format), and closer to what users of Beamless Spark expect, and B) free us to use the accumulator however we wish for Beam internal purposes, without worrying about readability.



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