Hi vino,
Big +1 for this.
Glad to see new progress on this topic! I’ve left some comments on it.


Best Regards,
Jiayi Liao


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Sender:vino yangyanghua1...@gmail.com
Recipient:Georgi stoyanovgstoya...@live.com
Cc:dev...@flink.apache.org; useru...@flink.apache.org; Stefan 
richters.rich...@ververica.com; Aljoscha krettekaljos...@apache.org; 
kkloudas@gmail.comkklou...@gmail.com; Stephan ewense...@apache.org; 
liyu@apache.orgl...@apache.org; Tzu-Li (Gordon) taitzuli...@apache.org
Date:Tuesday, Jul 2, 2019 16:45
Subject:Re: RE: [DISCUSS] Improve Queryable State and introduce 
aQueryServerProxy component


Hi all,


In the past, I have tried to further refine the design of this topic thread and 
wrote a design document to give more detailed design images and text 
description, so that it is more conducive to discussion.[1]

Note: The document is not yet completed, for example, the "Implementation" 
section is missing. Therefore, it is still in an open discussion state. I will 
improve the rest while listening to the opinions of the community.

Welcome and appreciate more discussions and feedback.



Best,
Vino


[1]:https://docs.google.com/document/d/181qYVIiHQGrc3hCj3QBn1iEHF4bUztdw4XO8VSaf_uI/edit?usp=sharing




yanghua1127 yanghua1...@gmail.com 于2019年6月7日周五 下午11:32写道:

Hi Georgi,

Thanks for your feedback. And glad to hear you are using queryable state.

I agree that implementation of option 1 is easier than others. However, when we 
design the new architecture we need to consider more aspects .e.g. scalability. 
So it seems option 3 is more suitable. Actually, some committers such as 
Stefan, Gordon and Aljoscha have given me feedback and direction.

Currently, I am writing the design document. If it is ready to be presented. I 
will copy to this thread and we can discuss further details.

----
Best,
Vino



On 2019-06-07 19:03 , Georgi Stoyanov Wrote: 


Hi Vino,

I was investigating the current architecture and AFAIK the first proposal will 
be a lot easier to implement, cause currently JM has the information about the 
states (where, which etc thanks to KvStateLocationRegistry. Correct me if I’m 
wrong)
We are using the feature and it’s indeed not very cool to iterate trough ports, 
check which TM is the responsible one etc etc.

It will be very useful if someone from the committers joins the topic and give 
us some insights what’s going to happen with that feature.


Kind Regards,
Georgi



From: vino yang yanghua1...@gmail.com 
 Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 5:18 PM
 To: dev dev@flink.apache.org; user u...@flink.apache.org
 Cc: Stefan Richter s.rich...@ververica.com; Aljoscha Krettek 
aljos...@apache.org; kklou...@gmail.com
 Subject: [DISCUSS] Improve Queryable State and introduce a QueryServerProxy 
component

Hi all,

I want to share my thought with you about improving thequeryable state and 
introducing a QueryServerProxy component.

I think the current queryable state's client is hard to use. Because it needs 
users to know the TaskManager's address and proxy's port. Actually, some 
business users who do not have good knowledge about the Flink's inner or 
runtime in production. However, sometimes they need to query the values of 
states.

IMO, the reason caused this problem is because of the queryable state's 
architecture. Currently, the queryable state clientsinteract with querystate 
client proxy components which host on each TaskManager.This design is difficult 
to encapsulate the point of change and exposes too much detail to the user.

My personal idea is that we could introduce a really queryable state server, 
named e.g.QueryStateProxyServerwhich would delegate all the query state request 
and query the local registry then redirect the request to the specific 
QueryStateClientProxy(runs on each TaskManager). The server is the users really 
want to care about. And it would make the users ignorant to the TaskManagers' 
address and proxies' port. The current QueryStateClientProxy would become 
QueryStateProxyClient.

Generally speaking, the roles of the QueryStateProxyServer list below:

works as all the query client's proxy to receive all the request and send 
response; a router to redirect the real query requests to the specific proxy 
client; maintain route table registry(state - TaskManager, TaskManager-proxy 
client address) more fine-granted control, such as cache result, ACL, TTL, 
SLA(rate limit) and so on
About the implementation, there are three opts:

opt 1:

Let the JobManager acts as the query proxy server.
· pros: reuse the exists JM, do not need to introduce a new process can reduce 
the complexity;
· cons: would make JM heavy burdens, depends on the query frequency, may impact 
on the stability



opt 2:

Introduce a new component which runs as a single process and acts as the query 
proxy server:

· pros: reduce the burdens and make the JM more stability
· cons: introduced a new component will make the implementation more complexity


opt 3 (suggestion comes from Stefan Richter):

Combining the two opts, the query server could run as a single entry 
point(process) and integrate with JobManager.

If we keep it well encapsulated, the only difference would be how we register 
new TMs with the query server in the different scenarios, in JM we might have 
this information already, in standalone e.g. the TMs be started with the query 
server address to register. This would give the convenience to start QS with 
the JM and the flexibility for power user to reduce load on their JM.

IMO, the queryable state is a very valuable feature. It can let users query 
some real-time measure results.I hope it will get the attention of the 
community.

It is just a roughly thought. If it is valuable to the community, I will give a 
design draft.

What's your opinion? Any feedback and comment are welcome!

Best,
Vino.

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