Zhanghao Chen created FLINK-32822:
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Summary: Add connector option to control whether to enable
auto-commit of offsets when checkpoints is enabled
Key: FLINK-32822
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-32822
Project: Flink
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Connectors / Kafka
Reporter: Zhanghao Chen
When checkpointing is enabled, Flink Kafka connector commits the current
consuming offset when checkpoints are *completed* although ** Kafka source does
*NOT* rely on committed offsets for fault tolerance. When the checkpoint
interval is long, the lag curve will behave in a zig-zag way: the lag will keep
increasing, and suddenly drops on a complete checkpoint. It have led to some
confusion for users as in
[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76419633/flink-kafka-source-commit-offset-to-error-offset-suddenly-increase-or-decrease]
and may also affect external monitoring for setting up alarms (you'll have to
set up with a high threshold due to the non-realtime commit of offsets) and
autoscaling (the algorithm would need to pay extra effort to distinguish
whether the backlog is actually growing or just because the checkpoint is not
completed yet).
Therefore, I think it is worthwhile to add an option to enable auto-commit of
offsets when checkpoints is enabled. For DataStream API, it will be adding a
configuration method. For Table API, it will be adding a new connector option
which wires to the DataStream API configuration underneath.
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