Hi Yun, I'm trying to use inside a custom *DeserializationSchema*. Here is the constructor of *FlinkKafkaConsumer*. Inside *DeserializationSchema* I can't use *getRuntimeContext()*.
FlinkKafkaConsumer <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.9/api/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/FlinkKafkaConsumer.html#FlinkKafkaConsumer-java.util.List-org.apache.flink.api.common.serialization.DeserializationSchema-java.util.Properties-> (List <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/List.html?is-external=true> <String <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true> > topics, DeserializationSchema <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.9/api/java/org/apache/flink/api/common/serialization/DeserializationSchema.html> <T <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.9/api/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/FlinkKafkaConsumer.html> > deserializer, Properties <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html?is-external=true> props) On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 3:21 AM Yun Tang <myas...@live.com> wrote: > Hi David > > FlinkKafkaConsumer in itself is RichParallelSourceFunction, and you could > call function below to register your metrics group: > > getRuntimeContext().getMetricGroup().addGroup("MyMetrics").counter("myCounter") > > > > > Best > Yun Tang > ------------------------------ > *From:* David Magalhães <speeddra...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:45 > *To:* user <user@flink.apache.org> > *Subject:* Custom Metrics outside RichFunctions > > Hi, I want to create a custom metric that shows the number of message that > couldn't be deserialized using a custom deserializer inside > FlinkKafkaConsumer. > > Looking into Metrics page ( > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/monitoring/metrics.html > ) > that doesn't seem to be possible, because it it's a RichFunction. > > Anyone know another way to achieve this ? > > Thanks, > David >