Re: In flight records on Flink : Newbie question

2021-10-06 Thread Declan Harrison
Many thanks Fabian for your prompt replies much appreciated Thanks Declan On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 8:38 AM Fabian Paul wrote: > Hi Declan, > > As far as I know the FileSink does not buffer records but writes the > records to temporary files which are bucketed later. For the Elasticsearch > sink >

Re: In flight records on Flink : Newbie question

2021-10-06 Thread Fabian Paul
Hi Declan, As far as I know the FileSink does not buffer records but writes the records to temporary files which are bucketed later. For the Elasticsearch sink you are right it buffers the records before flushing them to ElasticSearch but you can control the flushing behaviour based on a given

Re: In flight records on Flink : Newbie question

2021-10-04 Thread Declan Harrison
Hi Fabian I am currently using the streaming file sink to local disk though potentially this sink could change to be Elastic Search. Declan On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 1:16 PM Fabian Paul wrote: > Hi Declan, > > I forgot to ask which sink you are using. I do not think it is generally > applicable t

Re: In flight records on Flink : Newbie question

2021-10-04 Thread Fabian Paul
Hi Declan, I forgot to ask which sink you are using. I do not think it is generally applicable that all sinks buffer records and only send them periodically. It depends a lot on the connector and what kind of capabilities the external system you are writing to offers. The amount of buffered da

Re: In flight records on Flink : Newbie question

2021-10-01 Thread Declan Harrison
Hi Fabian Primarily more a case of understanding how many records are likely to be buffered by the sink still awaiting processing. So we are streaming event records to a sink for downstream processing in as close to real time as possible but wondered how many might be buffered by Flink and if that

Re: In flight records on Flink : Newbie question

2021-10-01 Thread Fabian Paul
Hi Declan, Thanks for reaching out, we always welcome new users to Apache Flink community :) Your first question is a bit tricky. I am still trying to understand the motivation behind. In general there is no generic way to access the records which one of the operator currently processes. Are

In flight records on Flink : Newbie question

2021-09-30 Thread Declan Harrison
Hi Guys I've just recently started using Apache Flink to evaluate its suitability for a project I'm working on. First impressions are that the project is great, well documented and has lots of examples and guidance showcasing the multitude of things that it can do. Challenging knowing where to s