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Mason Chen commented on FLINK-24574: ------------------------------------ This would enable operators to properly clean up metrics. Here is an example of attempt that would benefit from this: https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/fd01adb87c54abe436ac04d4059a71784762cabd/flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/connector/kafka/source/metrics/KafkaSourceReaderMetrics.java#L237 > Allow metrics to be removed in UDFs > ----------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-24574 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-24574 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Runtime / Metrics > Affects Versions: 1.15.0 > Reporter: Arvid Heise > Priority: Major > > A user asked > {noformat} > Suppose I have a short lived process within a UDF that defines metrics. After > the process has completed, the underlying resources should be cleaned up. Is > there an API to remove/unregister metrics?{noformat} > There are probably more related use cases, where a metric is only temporarily > meaningful. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)