Hi, I am new Fink user and currently, using Flink 1.2.1 version. I am trying to understand how checkpoints actually work when Window operator is processing events.
My pipeline has the following flow where each operator's parallelism is 1. source -> flatmap -> tumbling window -> sink In this pipeline, I had configured the window to be evaluated every 1 hour (3600 seconds) and the checkpoint interval was 5 mins. The checkpoint timeout was set to 1 hour as I wanted the checkpoints to complete. In my window function, the job makes https call to another service so window function may take some time to evaluate/process all events. Please refer the following image. In this case, the window was triggered at 23:00:00. Checkpoint 12 was triggered soon after that and I notice that checkpoint 12 takes long time to complete (compared to other checkpoints when window function is not processing events). <http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/file/t1766/overall_checkpoint_duration_summary_when_waiting_for_window_operator.png> Following images shows checkpoint 12 details of window & sink operators. <http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/file/t1766/window_operator_checkpoint_duration_after_window_interval.png> <http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/file/t1766/sink_operator_checkpoint_duration_after_window_interval.png> I see that the time spent for checkpoint was actually just 5 ms & 8 ms (checkpoint duration sync) for window & sink operators. However, End to End Duration for checkpoint was 11m 12s for both window & sink operator. Is this expected behavior? If yes, do you have any suggestion to reduce the end to end checkpoint duration? Please let me know if any more information is needed. Thanks. -- Sent from: http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/
