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ming li commented on FLINK-18808:
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{quote}Why would we have to rename the metric for the task level? Couldn't we
keep it as before as {{numRecordsOut}}? Just on the task level the metric would
be calculated differently.
{quote}
Okay, there is no need to add other metrics, we actually only need a counter.
{quote}What about moving this metric (task level {{numRecordsOut}}) to
{{RecordWriter}}? Alongside {{RecordWriter#numBytesOut}}?
{quote}
This will return to another question in the issue: Does the semantics of
{{numRecordsOut}} represent the number of records produced or the number of
records actually sent? At present, a record may be broadcast to multiple
downstreams. If {{numRecordsOut}} is added to {{RecordWriter}}, this will
become the actual number of records sent.
> Task-level numRecordsOut metric may be underestimated
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-18808
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18808
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Runtime / Metrics, Runtime / Task
> Affects Versions: 1.11.1
> Reporter: ming li
> Assignee: ming li
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available, usability
> Attachments: image-2020-08-04-11-28-13-800.png,
> image-2020-08-04-11-32-20-678.png
>
>
> At present, we only register task-level numRecordsOut metric by reusing
> operator output record counter at the end of OperatorChain.
> {code:java}
> if (config.isChainEnd()) {
> operatorMetricGroup.getIOMetricGroup().reuseOutputMetricsForTask();
> }
> {code}
> If we only send data out through the last operator of OperatorChain, there is
> no problem with this statistics. But consider the following scenario:
> !image-2020-08-04-11-28-13-800.png|width=507,height=174!
> In this JobGraph, we not only send data in the last operator, but also send
> data in the middle operator of OperatorChain (the map operator just returns
> the original value directly). Below is one of our test topology, we can see
> that the statistics actually only have half of the total data received by the
> downstream.
> !image-2020-08-04-11-32-20-678.png|width=648,height=251!
> I think the data sent out by the intermediate operator should also be counted
> into the numRecordsOut of the Task. But currently we are not reusing
> operators output record counters in the intermediate operators, which leads
> to our task-level numRecordsOut metric is underestimated (although this has
> no effect on the actual operation of the job, it may affect our monitoring).
> A simple idea of mine is to modify the condition of reusing operators
> output record counter:
> {code:java}
> if (!config.getNonChainedOutputs(getUserCodeClassloader()).isEmpty()) {
> operatorMetricGroup.getIOMetricGroup().reuseOutputMetricsForTask();
> }{code}
> In addition, I have another question: If a record is broadcast to all
> downstream, should the numRecordsOut counter increase by one or the
> downstream number? It seems that currently we are adding one to calculate the
> numRecordsOut metric.
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