Hi. I'm running a Flink application (version 1.8.0) that uses FlinkKafkaConsumer to fetch topic data and perform transformation on the data, with state backend as below: StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment(); env.enableCheckpointing(5_000, CheckpointingMode.AT_LEAST_ONCE); env.setStateBackend((StateBackend) new FsStateBackend("file:///test")); env.getCheckpointConfig().setCheckpointTimeout(30_000);
env.getCheckpointConfig().enableExternalizedCheckpoints(CheckpointConfig.ExternalizedCheckpointCleanup.RETAIN_ON_CANCELLATION); env.getCheckpointConfig().setMaxConcurrentCheckpoints(1); env.getCheckpointConfig().setMinPauseBetweenCheckpoints(1000); My problem is with the kafka brokers, where in the cluster there are 3 operating brokers and 2 are down - total 5 brokers. I was able to consume the data, but when the checkpoint triggered it throws this exception: [INFO ] 2019-07-22 12:29:14.634 [flink-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-18] o.a.f.r.c.CheckpointCoordinator - Decline checkpoint 6 by task 457b1f801fee89d6f9544409877e29d8 of job 1c46aa5719bac1f0bea436d460b79db1. [INFO ] 2019-07-22 12:29:14.636 [flink-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-28] o.a.f.r.t.TaskExecutor - Un-registering task and sending final execution state FAILED to JobManager for task Source: Custom Source -> Sink: Print to Std. Out 457b1f801fee89d6f9544409877e29d8. [INFO ] 2019-07-22 12:29:14.634 [flink-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-18] o.a.f.r.c.CheckpointCoordinator - Discarding checkpoint 6 of job 1c46aa5719bac1f0bea436d460b79db1. org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.decline.CheckpointDeclineTaskNotReadyException: Task Source: Custom Source -> Sink: Print to Std. Out (2/4) was not running at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.triggerCheckpointBarrier(Task.java:1198) ~[flink-runtime_2.11-1.8.0.jar:1.8.0] at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskexecutor.TaskExecutor.triggerCheckpoint(TaskExecutor.java:700) ~[flink-runtime_2.11-1.8.0.jar:1.8.0] at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor15.invoke(Unknown Source) ~[?:?] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_201] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) ~[?:1.8.0_201] at org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcActor.handleRpcInvocation(AkkaRpcActor.java:274) ~[flink-runtime_2.11-1.8.0.jar:1.8.0] at org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcActor.handleRpcMessage(AkkaRpcActor.java:189) ~[flink-runtime_2.11-1.8.0.jar:1.8.0] at org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcActor.onReceive(AkkaRpcActor.java:147) ~[flink-runtime_2.11-1.8.0.jar:1.8.0] at akka.actor.UntypedActor$$anonfun$receive$1.applyOrElse(UntypedActor.scala:165) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.4.20.jar:?] at akka.actor.Actor$class.aroundReceive$$$capture(Actor.scala:502) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.4.20.jar:?] at akka.actor.Actor$class.aroundReceive(Actor.scala) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.4.20.jar:?] at akka.actor.UntypedActor.aroundReceive(UntypedActor.scala:95) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.4.20.jar:?] at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:526) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.4.20.jar:?] at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:495) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.4.20.jar:?] at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:257) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.4.20.jar:?] at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:224) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.4.20.jar:?] at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.exec(Mailbox.scala:234) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.4.20.jar:?] at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) [scala-library-2.11.12.jar:?] at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339) [scala-library-2.11.12.jar:?] at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) [scala-library-2.11.12.jar:?] at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107) [scala-library-2.11.12.jar:?] [INFO ] 2019-07-22 12:29:14.637 [flink-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-28] o.a.f.r.e.ExecutionGraph - Source: Custom Source -> Sink: Print to Std. Out (2/4) (457b1f801fee89d6f9544409877e29d8) switched from RUNNING to FAILED. org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Timeout expired while fetching topic metadata My question is (as I think what does the checkpoint tries to do) why is it trying to fetch topic metadata from the brokers that are down? Thanks, Yitzchak.