Hi Bhaskar I think I have understood your scenario now. And I think this is what expected in Flink. As you only allow your job could restore 5 times, the "restore" would only record the checkpoint to restore at the 5th recovery, and the checkpoint id would always stay there.
"Restored" is for last restored checkpoint and "completed" is for last completed checkpoint, they are actually not the same thing. The only scenario that they're the same in numbers is when Flink just restore successfully before a new checkpoint completes. Best Yun Tang ________________________________ From: Vijay Bhaskar <bhaskar.eba...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 12:19 To: Yun Tang <myas...@live.com> Cc: user <user@flink.apache.org> Subject: Re: In consistent Check point API response Hi Yun Understood the issue now: "restored" always shows only the check point that is used for restoring previous state In all the attempts < 6 ( in my case max attempts are 5, 6 is the last attempt) Flink HA is restoring the state, so restored and latest are same value if the last attempt == 6 Flink job already has few check points After that job failed and Flink HA gave up and marked the job state as "FAILED" At this point "restored". value is the one which is in 5'th attempt but latest is the one which is the latest checkpoint which is retained Shall i file any documentation improvement Jira? I want to add more documentation with the help of the above scenarios. Regards Bhaskar On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 8:14 AM Yun Tang <myas...@live.com<mailto:myas...@live.com>> wrote: Hi Bhaskar It seems I still not understand your case-5 totally. Your job failed 6 times, and recover from previous checkpoint to restart again. However, you found the REST API told the wrong answer. How do you ensure your "restored" field is giving the wrong checkpoint file which is not latest? Have you ever checked the log in JM to view related contents: "Restoring job xxx from latest valid checkpoint: x@xxxx" [1] to know exactly which checkpoint choose to restore? I think you could give a more concrete example e.g. which expected/actual checkpoint to restore, to tell your story. [1] https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/8f992e8e868b846cf7fe8de23923358fc6b50721/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/checkpoint/CheckpointCoordinator.java#L1250 Best Yun Tang ________________________________ From: Vijay Bhaskar <bhaskar.eba...@gmail.com<mailto:bhaskar.eba...@gmail.com>> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2020 17:01 To: Yun Tang <myas...@live.com<mailto:myas...@live.com>> Cc: user <user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org>> Subject: Re: In consistent Check point API response Thanks Yun. Here is the problem i am facing: I am using jobs/:jobID/checkpoints API to recover the failed job. We have the remote manager which monitors the jobs. We are using "restored" field of the API response to get the latest check point file to use. Its giving correct checkpoint file for all the 4 cases except the 5'th case. Where the "restored" field is giving the wrong check point file which is not latest. When we compare the check point file returned by the "completed". field, both are giving identical checkpoints in all 4 cases, except 5'th case We can't use flink UI in because of security reasons Regards Bhaskar On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:57 PM Yun Tang <myas...@live.com<mailto:myas...@live.com>> wrote: Hi Vijay If I understand correct, do you mean your last "restored" checkpoint is null via REST api when the job failed 6 times and then recover successfully with another several successful checkpoints? First of all, if your job just recovered successfully, can you observe the "last restored" checkpoint in web UI? Secondly, how long will you cannot see the "restored " field after recover successfully? Last but not least, I cannot see the real difference among your cases, what's the core difference in your case(5)? >From the implementation of Flink, it will create the checkpoint statics >without restored checkpoint and assign it once the latest savepoint/checkpoint >is restored. [1] [1] https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/50253c6b89e3c92cac23edda6556770a63643c90/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/checkpoint/CheckpointCoordinator.java#L1285 Best Yun Tang ________________________________ From: Vijay Bhaskar <bhaskar.eba...@gmail.com<mailto:bhaskar.eba...@gmail.com>> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2020 14:20 To: user <user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org>> Subject: In consistent Check point API response Hi I am using flink retained check points and along with jobs/:jobid/checkpoints API for retrieving the latest retained check point Following the response of Flink Checkpoints API: I have my jobs restart attempts are 5 check point API response in "latest" key, check point file name of both "restored" and "completed" values are having following behavior 1)Suppose the job is failed 3 times and recovered 4'th time, then both values are same 2)Suppose the job is failed 4 times and recovered 5'th time, then both values are same 3)Suppose the job is failed 5 times and recovered 6'th time, then both values are same 4) Suppose the job is failed all 6 times and the job marked failed. then also both the values are same 5)Suppose job is failed 6'th time , after recovering from 5 attempts and made few check points, then both values are different. During case (1), case (2), case (3) and case (4) i never had any issue. Only When case (5) i had severe issue in my production as the "restored " field check point doesn't exist Please suggest any { "counts":{ "restored":6, "total":3, "in_progress":0, "completed":3, "failed":0 }, "summary":{ "state_size":{ "min":4879, "max":4879, "avg":4879 }, "end_to_end_duration":{ "min":25, "max":130, "avg":87 }, "alignment_buffered":{ "min":0, "max":0, "avg":0 } }, "latest":{ "completed":{ "@class":"completed", "id":7094, "status":"COMPLETED", "is_savepoint":false, "trigger_timestamp":1590382502772, "latest_ack_timestamp":1590382502902, "state_size":4879, "end_to_end_duration":130, "alignment_buffered":0, "num_subtasks":2, "num_acknowledged_subtasks":2, "tasks":{ }, "external_path":"file:/var/lib/persist/flink/checkpoints/29ae7600aa4f7d53a0dc1a0a7b257c85/chk-7094", "discarded":false }, "savepoint":null, "failed":null, "restored":{ "id":7093, "restore_timestamp":1590382478448, "is_savepoint":false, "external_path":"file:/var/lib/persist/flink/checkpoints/29ae7600aa4f7d53a0dc1a0a7b257c85/chk-7093" } }, "history":[ { "@class":"completed", "id":7094, "status":"COMPLETED", "is_savepoint":false, "trigger_timestamp":1590382502772, "latest_ack_timestamp":1590382502902, "state_size":4879, "end_to_end_duration":130, "alignment_buffered":0, "num_subtasks":2, "num_acknowledged_subtasks":2, "tasks":{ }, "external_path":"file:/var/lib/persist/flink/checkpoints/29ae7600aa4f7d53a0dc1a0a7b257c85/chk-7094", "discarded":false }, { "@class":"completed", "id":7093, "status":"COMPLETED", "is_savepoint":false, "trigger_timestamp":1590382310195, "latest_ack_timestamp":1590382310220, "state_size":4879, "end_to_end_duration":25, "alignment_buffered":0, "num_subtasks":2, "num_acknowledged_subtasks":2, "tasks":{ }, "external_path":"file:/var/lib/persist/flink/checkpoints/29ae7600aa4f7d53a0dc1a0a7b257c85/chk-7093", "discarded":false }, { "@class":"completed", "id":7092, "status":"COMPLETED", "is_savepoint":false, "trigger_timestamp":1590382190195, "latest_ack_timestamp":1590382190303, "state_size":4879, "end_to_end_duration":108, "alignment_buffered":0, "num_subtasks":2, "num_acknowledged_subtasks":2, "tasks":{ }, "external_path":"file:/var/lib/persist/flink/checkpoints/29ae7600aa4f7d53a0dc1a0a7b257c85/chk-7092", "discarded":true } ] }
