Just curious here. What happens when this local JVM context dies for any
reason?  How does it work with DataFlow?

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:50 AM Scott Wegner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another point that we discussed at ApacheCon is that a difference between
> Dataflow and other runners is Dataflow is service-based and doesn't need a
> locally executing "driver" program. A local driver context is a good place
> to implement MetricsPusher because it is a singleton process.
>
> In fact, DataflowRunner supports PipelineResult.waitUntilFinish() [1],
> where we do maintain the local JVM context. Currently in this mode the
> runner polls the Dataflow service API for log messages [2]. It would be
> very easy to also poll for metric updates and push them out via
> MetricsPusher.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/279a05604b83a54e8e5a79e13d8761f94841f326/runners/google-cloud-dataflow-java/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/dataflow/DataflowPipelineJob.java#L169
> [2]
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/279a05604b83a54e8e5a79e13d8761f94841f326/runners/google-cloud-dataflow-java/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/dataflow/DataflowPipelineJob.java#L291
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:44 AM Etienne Chauchot <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Scott,
>> Thanks for the update.
>> Both solutions look good to me. Though, they both have plus and minus. I
>> let the googlers chose which is more appropriate:
>>
>> - DAG modifcation: less intrusive in Dataflow but the DAG executed and
>> shown in the DAG UI in dataflow will contain an extra step that the user
>> might wonder about.
>> - polling thread: it is exactly what I did for the other runners, it is
>> more transparent to the user but requires more infra work (adds a container
>> that needs to be resilient)
>>
>> Best
>> Etienne
>>
>> Le vendredi 21 septembre 2018 à 12:46 -0700, Scott Wegner a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Etienne, sorry for the delay on this. I just got back from leave and
>> found this discussion.
>>
>> We haven't started implementing MetricsPusher in the Dataflow runner,
>> mostly because the Dataflow service has it's own rich Metrics REST API and
>> we haven't heard a need from Dataflow customers to push metrics to an
>> external backend. However, it would be nice to have this implemented across
>> all runners for feature parity.
>>
>> I read through the discussion in JIRA [1], and the simplest
>> implementation for Dataflow may be to have a single thread periodically
>> poll the Dataflow REST API [2] for latest metric values, and push them to a
>> configured sink. This polling thread could be hosted in a separate docker
>> container, within the worker process, or perhaps a ParDo with timers that
>> gets injected into the pipeline during graph translation.
>>
>> At any rate, I'm not aware of anybody currently working on this. But with
>> the Dataflow worker code being donated to Beam [3], soon it will be
>> possible for anybody to contribute.
>>
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3926
>> [2]
>> https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/reference/rest/v1b3/projects.locations.jobs/getMetrics
>> [3]
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2bdc645659e2fbd7e29f3a2758941faefedb01148a2a11558dfe60f8@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:26 PM Lukasz Cwik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I forwarded your request to a few people who work on the internal parts
>> of Dataflow to see if they could help in some way.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:22 AM Etienne Chauchot <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> As we already discussed, it would be good to support Metrics Pusher [1]
>> in Dataflow (in other runners also, of course). Today, only Spark and Flink
>> support it. It requires a modification in C++ Dataflow code, so only Google
>> friends can do it.
>>
>> Is someone interested in doing it ?
>>
>> Here is the ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3926
>>
>> Besides, I wonder if this feature should be added to the capability
>> matrix.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BEAM/Metrics+architecture+inside+the+runners
>>
>> Thanks
>> Etienne
>>
>>
>>
>>
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