If I can trigger the sample via rest API it is good for a POC. Then I can
read from any in-memory storage using a separated thread within the
operator. But what is the rest api that gives to me the ratio value from
backpressure?

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On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 4:55 PM Chesnay Schepler <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't think there is a truly sane way to do this.
>
> I could envision a separate application triggering samples via the REST
> API, writing the results into kafka which your operator can read. This is
> probably the most reasonable solution I can come up with.
>
> Any attempt at accessing the TaskExecutor or metrics from within the
> operator are inadvisable; you'd be encroaching into truly hacky territory.
>
> You could also do your own backpressure sampling within your operator
> (separate thread within the operator executing the same sampling logic),
> but I don't know how easy it would be to re-use Flink code.
>
> On 06/11/2019 13:40, Felipe Gutierrez wrote:
>
> Does anyone know in which metric I can rely on to know if a given operator
> is activating the backpressure?
> Or how can I call the same java object that the Flink UI calls to give me
> the ratio of backpressure?
>
> Thanks,
> Felipe
>
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>
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>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 4:15 PM Felipe Gutierrez <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Zhijiang,
>>
>> thanks for your reply. Yes, you understood correctly.
>> The fact that I cannot get "Shuffle.Netty.Input.Buffers.inputQueueLength"
>> on the operator might be because of the way Flink runtime architecture was
>> designed. But I was wondering what kind of signal I can get. I guess some
>> backpressure message I could get because backpressure works to slow down
>> the upstream operators.
>>
>> For example, I can see the ratio per sub-task on the web interface [1].
>> It means the physical operators. Is there any message flowing backward that
>> I can get? Is there anything that makes me able to not rely on some
>> external storage?
>>
>> [1]
>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/monitoring/back_pressure.html#sampling-threads
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>>
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>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 12:23 PM Zhijiang <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Felipe,
>>>
>>> That is an interesting idea to control the upstream's output based on
>>> downstream's input.
>>>
>>> If I understood correctly, the preAggregate operator would trigger
>>> flush output while the reduce operator is idle/hungry. In contrast, the 
>>> preAggregate
>>> would continue aggregating data in the case of back pressure.
>>>
>>> I think this requirement is valid, but unfortunately I guess you can not
>>> get the back pressure signal from the operator level. AIK only the upper
>>> task level can get the input/output state to decide whether to process or
>>> not.
>>>
>>> If you want to get the reduce's metric of 
>>> `Shuffle.Netty.Input.Buffers.inputQueueLength`
>>> on preAggregate side, you might rely on some external metric reporter
>>> to query it if possible.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Zhijiang
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> From:Felipe Gutierrez <[email protected]>
>>> Send Time:2019 Nov. 5 (Tue.) 16:58
>>> To:user <[email protected]>
>>> Subject:How can I get the backpressure signals inside my function or
>>> operator?
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> let's say that I have a "source -> map .> preAggregrate -> keyBy ->
>>> reduce -> sink" job and the reducer is sending backpressure signals to the
>>> preAggregate, map and source operator. How do I get those signals inside my
>>> operator's implementation?
>>> I guess inside the function is not possible. But if I have my own
>>> operator implemented (preAggregate) can I get those backpressure signals?
>>>
>>> I want to get the messages
>>> "Shuffle.Netty.Input.Buffers.inputQueueLength" [1] on my preAggregate
>>> operator in order to decide when I stop the pre-aggregation and flush
>>> tuples or when I keep pre aggregating. It is something like the "credit
>>> based control on the network stack" [2].
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.9/monitoring/metrics.html#default-shuffle-service
>>> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbqatHF3tZI
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Felipe
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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