GitHub user casidiablo opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5182
[FLINK-8162] [kinesis-connector] Emit Kinesis' millisBehindLatest metric ## What is the purpose of the change - Emits [Kinesis' millisBehindLatest](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/APIReference/API_GetRecords.html) metric, which can be used to detect delays in the pipeline ## Brief change log - Publish `millisBehindLatest` as a gauge metric under the `Kinesis` group using `<shard_id>` as parameter - Updated metrics documentation ## Verifying this change This change is already covered by existing tests, such as `ShardConsumerTest`. ## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts: - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): no - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: no - The serializers: no - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): no - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: no - The S3 file system connector: no ## Documentation - Does this pull request introduce a new feature? yes - If yes, how is the feature documented? `metrics.md` file You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/casidiablo/flink kinesis-fork Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5182.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #5182 ---- commit bc8426ec3be364323d65cedcc1c1c5cb4e442c8b Author: Cristian <m...@cristian.io> Date: 2017-12-19T15:14:22Z Emit Kinesis' millisBehindLatest metric ---- ---