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[jira] [Updated] (BEAM-11212) Beam metrics should be displayed in
Flink UI "Metrics" tab
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-11212?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Beam JIRA Bot updated BEAM-11212:
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Priority: P3 (was: P2)
> Beam metrics should be displayed in Flink UI "Metrics" tab
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> Key: BEAM-11212
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-11212
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: runner-flink
> Reporter: Kyle Weaver
> Priority: P3
> Labels: portability-flink, stale-P2
> Attachments: Screenshot 2021-01-20 at 12.07.33.png, Screenshot 2021-01-20 at 12.08.44.png, flink-metrics.png
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> All Beam metrics are visible in the Flink 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 in Flink are only visible as an accumulator, then they are also unreadable because the payloads are in binary form (BEAM-10719).
> Having metrics visible in Flink'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 Flink expect, and B) free us to use the accumulator however we wish for Beam internal purposes, without worrying about readability.
> One question I'm not sure about is, why can't we see Beam metrics in the Flink UI already? I thought we were already translating Beam metrics into Flink native metrics (https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/ea2a3f6896b66a2852a2ff3d82f4e1b010013d13/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainer.java#L108-L109). Is there something else we need to do to display them in the UI?
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