Hi harshvardhan, No, by default, late elements will be thrown away. There are documents about window here[1].
Best, Hequn [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/dev/stream/operators/windows.html#windows On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:34 AM, Harshvardhan Agrawal < harshvardhan.ag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to understand the behaviour of Triggers in the case where we > receive late elements for a window. Does Flink always fires a window each > time it receives late element i.e. if I receive 10 late elements, would it > fire 10 times? > Is there any specific example I could refer to understand the how this > works? > > -- > > > *Regards,Harshvardhan Agrawal* >