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Chesnay Schepler commented on FLINK-25164:
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> are there any plans to move all of the existing reporters to third-party
> dependencies?
No, we have no such _plans_. But if an external party is providing a
significantly better open-source alternative for a given reporter, then we may
start directing our users towards that.
> the Flink community doesn't welcome new metrics reporters?
Not quite; we're trying to break the notion that the only way to get a
production-ready connector/reporter/whatever is to have it be provided by
Flink. This doesn't scale very well and has repeatedly made us the bottleneck
when it came to updates to a given component.
That is why flink-packages.org was introduced (making it easier to
share/discover third-party components), and also why
https://github.com/flink-extended was created (fostering collaboration between
companies).
This does not mean that we'll reject every new reporter, but just that we want
people to encourage people to collaborate with others.
> would you recommend updating the existing [reporter]
I wouldn't merge it into the existing reporter, but adding a second reporter to
the module (similar to what is done for Prometheus) with some shared utilities
would make sense.
However, this doesn't really solve the above issue; more code is more code,
whether it's a separate module or not ;)
> DogStatsD Metrics Reporter
> --------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-25164
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-25164
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Runtime / Metrics
> Reporter: Yaroslav Tkachenko
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
>
> At the moment Flink doesn't have a metrics reporter that can work with very
> popular DataDog agents out of the box. DataDog agents use DogStatsD protocol
> which is a superset of StatsD. The existing StatsDReporter is too limited to
> be useful.
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7009 attempted to address this
> issue by introducing a separate mode in the StatsDReporter, however, I don't
> believe it's possible to extend it to support DogStatsD due to a few core
> differences:
> * ALL metrics in StatsDReporter are reported as gauges, which makes counters
> wrong
> * Negative values are interpreted as reductions instead of absolute values,
> which is not true in the case of DogStatsD
> * The list of histogram metrics is not compatible with [the way they're
> represented in
> Datadog|https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/metrics/types/?tab=histogram]
> I think this warrants having separate metrics reporter dedicated to DogStatsD
> protocol.
> Also, most of the changes originally proposed in
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7009 are still relevant:
> * convert output to ascii alphanumeric characters with underbar, delimited
> by periods. Runs of invalid characters within a metric segment would be
> collapsed to a single underbar.
> * report all Flink variables as tags
> * compress overly long segments, say over 50 chars, to a symbolic
> representation of the metric name, to preserve the unique metric time series
> but avoid downstream truncation
> * compress 32 character Flink IDs like tm_id, task_id, job_id,
> task_attempt_id, to the first 8 characters, again to preserve enough
> distinction amongst metrics while trimming up to 96 characters from the metric
> * remove object references from names, such as the instance hash id of the
> serializer
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