umustafi commented on code in PR #3561: URL: https://github.com/apache/gobblin/pull/3561#discussion_r972235376
########## gobblin-yarn/src/main/java/org/apache/gobblin/yarn/YarnService.java: ########## @@ -339,6 +342,15 @@ protected void startUp() throws Exception { LOGGER.info("ApplicationMaster registration response: " + response); this.maxResourceCapacity = Optional.of(response.getMaximumResourceCapability()); + // All previous helix instances should be purged on startup. Gobblin task runners are stateless from helix + // perspective because all important state is persisted separately in Workunit State Store or Watermark store. + // Offline duration of 0 means any offline instance should be purged (Note: there aren't any online instances + // when this code runs, this is during startup before any containers are allocated). + LOGGER.info("Purging offline helix instances before allocating containers for helixClusterName={}, connectionString={}", helixManager.getClusterName(), helixManager.getMetadataStoreConnectionString()); + long offlineDuration = 0; + this.helixAdmin.purgeOfflineInstances(this.helixManager.getClusterName(), offlineDuration); Review Comment: We should block on this call as you're saying so we don't start allocating new instances while purging his happening in a different thread. However, we don't want the whole `YarnService` to fail initialization because of a Helix issue. We should block and have a timeout. Then if it fails, emit a **metric** (in addition to log) that Helix instances have failed to be purged. We can set alerts on this metric so oncall can respond to this spikes in the metric emission and investigate failure to purge Helix instances so they don't grow unbounded. With a log warning/error it's easy to get ignored and miss it until there is a GCN level issue. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@gobblin.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org