We are using periodic event time window with watermark. We have currently 4 parallel tasks in our Flink App.
During the streaming process, all the 4 tasks' watermark values must be close to trigger window event. For example; Task 1 watermark value = 8 Task 2 watermark value = 1 Task 3 watermark value = 8 Task 4 watermark value = 8 Task 2 is waiting for log to update its watermark. However, the condition can occur before Task 2's update and we want to fire the window event before it. Is there any mechanism to align all the parallel tasks' watermarks or fire the window event without waiting for other tasks?