Hi Robert, Flink collects many metrics by default, including the number of records / events that go into each operator (see [1], System Metrics, IO, "numRecordsIn"). So, you would only need to access that metric.
Best, Fabian [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/monitoring/metrics.html 2017-08-01 18:56 GMT+02:00 Robert Rapplean <rrappl...@altitudedigital.com>: > I want a count of events that are put into a bucketing sink, but can't > find a ready-made way of doing that. Is there an easier way than to > implement a counter for each bucket via the metrics? If metrics counters is > the easy way, what do I do to make sure that I don't have a memory leak > from expired counters? > > Thanks, > > Robert >