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Roger Hoover commented on SAMZA-503: ------------------------------------ >From [~criccomini]: In the BrokerProxy, we currently just sleep if we don't need to fetch messages. We could do a fetch simply to get the latest offset, update the gauges, then sleep. This will still likely have a 1-2s latency, but I think this is reasonable. > Lag gauge very slow to update for slow jobs > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: SAMZA-503 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-503 > Project: Samza > Issue Type: Bug > Components: metrics > Affects Versions: 0.8.0 > Environment: Mac OS X, Oracle Java 7, ProcessJobFactory > Reporter: Roger Hoover > > For slow jobs, the > KafkaSystemConsumerMetrics.%s-%s-messages-behind-high-watermark) gauge does > not get updated very often. > To reproduce: > * Create a job that processes one message and sleeps for 5 seconds > * Create it's input topic but do not populate it yet > * Start the job > * Load 1000s of messages to it's input topic. You can keep adding messages > with a "wait -n 1 <kafka console producer command>" > What happens: > * Run jconsole to view the JMX metrics > * The %s-%s-messages-behind-high-watermark gauge will stay at 0 for a LONG > time (~10 minutes?) before finally updating. > What should happen: > * The gauge should get updated at a reasonable interval (a least every few > seconds) > I think what's happening is that the BrokerProxy only updates the high > watermark when a consumer is ready for more messages. When the job is so > slow, this rarely happens to the metric doesn't get updated. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)