Bowen Li created FLINK-7223: ------------------------------- Summary: Increase DEFAULT_SHARD_DISCOVERY_INTERVAL_MILLIS for Flink-kinesis-connector Key: FLINK-7223 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7223 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: Kinesis Connector Affects Versions: 1.3.0 Reporter: Bowen Li Assignee: Bowen Li Priority: Minor Fix For: 1.4.0
Background: {{DEFAULT_SHARD_DISCOVERY_INTERVAL_MILLIS}} in {{org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis.config.ConsumerConfigConstants}} is the default value for Flink to call Kinesis's {{describeStream()}} API. Problem: Right now, its value is 10,000millis (10sec), which is too short. We ran into problems that Flink-kinesis-connector's call of {{describeStream()}} exceeds Kinesis rate limit, and broken Flink taskmanager. According to http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeStream.html, "This operation has a limit of 10 transactions per second per account.". What it means is that the 10transaction/account is a limit on a single organization's AWS account......:( We contacted AWS Support, and confirmed this. If you have more applications (either other Flink apps or non-Flink apps) competing aggressively with your Flink app on this API, your Flink app breaks. I propose increasing the value DEFAULT_SHARD_DISCOVERY_INTERVAL_MILLIS from 10,000millis(10sec) to preferably 300,000 (5min). Or at least 60,000 (1min) if anyone has a solid reason arguing that 5min is too long, This is also related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6365 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)