Hi Arvid,

Thanks for your response. I did not restart from the checkpoint. I assumed
Flink would look for a checkpoint upon restart automatically.

*I should restart like below ?*

bin/flink run  -s
s3://bucketxx-app/flink/checkpoint/iv/f1ef373e27203907d2d568bca31e6556/chk-384/
\

Thanks,
Vijay

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 12:52 AM Arvid Heise <ar...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Vijay,
>
> edit: After re-reading your message: are you sure that you restart from a
> checkpoint/savepoint? If you just start the application anew and use LATEST
> initial position, this is the expected bahvior.
>
> --- original intended answer if you restart from checkpoint
>
> this is definitively not the expected behavior.
>
> To exclude certain error sources:
> - Could you double-check if this is also happening if you don't use
> unaligned checkpoints? (I don't really think this is because of unaligned
> checkpoint, but it's better to be sure and we want to reduce the possible
> error sources)
> - Can you see the missing messages still in Kinesis?
> - Could you extract all log INFO statements from
> org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kinesis and attach them here?
> - How long did you wait with recovery?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:03 PM Vijayendra Yadav <contact....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> We are trying to make sure we are not losing data when KINESIS Consumer
>> is down.
>>
>> Kinesis streaming Job which has following checkpointing properties:
>>
>>
>> *// checkpoint every X msecs
>> env.enableCheckpointing(Conf.getFlinkCheckpointInterval());*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *// enable externalized checkpoints which are retained after job
>> cancellation
>> env.getCheckpointConfig().enableExternalizedCheckpoints(
>> CheckpointConfig.ExternalizedCheckpointCleanup.RETAIN_ON_CANCELLATION
>>   );// allow job recovery fallback to checkpoint when there is a more
>> recent savepoint
>> env.getCheckpointConfig().setPreferCheckpointForRecovery(Conf.isFlinkCheckpointPreferCheckPoint());
>>  //
>> enables the experimental unaligned checkpoints
>> env.getCheckpointConfig().enableUnalignedCheckpoints();*
>>
>> *//checkpointpath*
>> *        env.setStateBackend(new
>> FsStateBackend(Conf.getFlinkCheckPointPath(), true));*
>>
>> 1) We killed the Kinesis Job
>> 2) Sent messages to KDS while Consumer was down.
>> 3) Restarted Flink Consumer, *messages which were sent during the
>> Consumer down period, never ingested (data loss).*
>> 4) Re-sent messages to KDS while the consumer was still up. Messages did
>> ingest fine.
>>
>> *How can I avoid data loss for #3 ??*
>>
>> From Logs:
>>
>>
>> *2021-04-07 12:15:49,161 INFO
>>  org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.JobMaster                  - Using
>> application-defined state backend: File State Backend (checkpoints:
>> 's3://bucket-xx/flink/checkpoint/iv', savepoints: 'null', asynchronous:
>> TRUE, fileStateThreshold: -1)*
>>
>>
>>
>> *2021-04-07 12:16:02,343 INFO
>>  org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator     - Completed
>> checkpoint 1 for job 8943d16e22b8aaf65d6b9e2b8bd54113 (3564 bytes in 591
>> ms).2021-04-07 12:16:11,951 INFO
>>  org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator     - Triggering
>> checkpoint 2 (type=CHECKPOINT) @ 1617797771751 for job
>> 8943d16e22b8aaf65d6b9e2b8bd54113.2021-04-07 12:16:12,483 INFO
>>  org.apache.flink.runtime.checkpoint.CheckpointCoordinator     - Completed
>> checkpoint 2 for job 8943d16e22b8aaf65d6b9e2b8bd54113 (3564 bytes in 411
>> ms).*
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vijay
>>
>

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