Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2105#discussion_r68200885 --- Diff: flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/metrics/MetricRegistry.java --- @@ -118,40 +120,38 @@ public MetricRegistry(Configuration config) { if (reporter instanceof Scheduled) { LOG.info("Periodically reporting metrics in intervals of {} {}", period, timeunit.name()); - long millis = timeunit.toMillis(period); - timer = new java.util.Timer("Periodic Metrics Reporter", true); - timer.schedule(new ReporterTask((Scheduled) reporter), millis, millis); + executor.scheduleWithFixedDelay(new ReporterTask((Scheduled) reporter), period, period, timeunit); } else { - timer = null; + executor = null; } } catch (Throwable t) { reporter = new JMXReporter(); - timer = null; + executor = null; LOG.error("Could not instantiate custom metrics reporter. Defaulting to JMX metrics export.", t); } this.reporter = reporter; - this.timer = timer; + this.executor = executor; } } /** * Shuts down this registry and the associated {@link org.apache.flink.metrics.reporter.MetricReporter}. */ public void shutdown() { - if (timer != null) { - timer.cancel(); - } if (reporter != null) { try { reporter.close(); } catch (Throwable t) { LOG.warn("Metrics reporter did not shut down cleanly", t); } } + if (executor != null) { + executor.shutdownNow(); --- End diff -- I guess that one second of delay wouldn't really hurt. That's at least how the `ScheduledReporter` do it. Btw: Why do we actually replicate the execution logic for the `com.codahale.metrics.ScheduledReporter`. As far as I can tell, we could simply use the internal reporting mechanism. Then we would not have to implement the `Scheduled` interface.
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