Github user zentol commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4586#discussion_r135764351 --- Diff: flink-metrics/flink-metrics-prometheus/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/metrics/prometheus/PrometheusReporter.java --- @@ -84,21 +84,30 @@ static String replaceInvalidChars(final String input) { @Override public void open(MetricConfig config) { - int port = config.getInteger(ARG_PORT, DEFAULT_PORT); - LOG.info("Using port {}.", port); - prometheusEndpoint = new PrometheusEndpoint(port); - try { - prometheusEndpoint.start(NanoHTTPD.SOCKET_READ_TIMEOUT, true); - } catch (IOException e) { - final String msg = "Could not start PrometheusEndpoint on port " + port; - LOG.warn(msg, e); - throw new RuntimeException(msg, e); + String portsConfig = config.getString(ARG_PORT, DEFAULT_PORT); + + if (portsConfig != null) { --- End diff -- This check isn't needed. If we keep it we should also throw an exception if portsConfig is null as otherwise we're hitting an NPE later on since httpServer is still null.
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