By default, Kafka Streams does not "close" windows. To handle out-of-order data, windows are maintained until their retention time passed, and are updated each time an out-of-order record arrives (even if window-end time passed).
Cf https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38935904/how-to-send-final-kafka-streams-aggregation-result-of-a-time-windowed-ktable for details; note, that using `suppress()` and setting a grace-period change the default behavior. Hence, you usually want to keep windows around until you are sure that no more out-of-order records for a window may arrive (what is usually some time after the window end time). If 1 day is too large, you can of course reduce the retention time accordingly. If you use Interactive Queries, you would need to set retention time large enough to allow your application to query the state. For this case, retention time might be higher to keep state around for serving queries, even if you know it won't be updated any longer. For Kafka Streams, using 1 day as default provides a good out-of-the-box experience. For production deployments, change the retention time base on the need of the application make sense of course. There is also one more config you might want to consider: `windowstore.changelog.additional.retention.ms` -- it's 1 day by default, too, and you might want to reduce it to reduce the amount of data that is restored. In general, there in nothing wrong with using stateful sets though, and for large state, it's recommended to avoid long recovery times. -Matthias On 6/9/19 2:59 PM, Parthasarathy, Mohan wrote: > Matt, > > Thanks for your response. I agree with you that there is no easy way to > answer this. I was trying to see what others experience is which could simply > be "Don't bother, in practice stateful set is better". > > Could you explain as to why there has to be more state than the window size ? > In a running application, as the data is being processed from a topic, there > is state being created depending on the stateful primitives. As the window is > closed, this state is not needed and I can see why grace period has to be > taken into account ? So, when would you need it for the whole store > retention time ? Could you clarify ? > > Thanks > Mohan > > On 6/8/19, 11:18 PM, "Matthias J. Sax" <matth...@confluent.io> wrote: > > If depends how much state you need to restore and how much restore-time > you can accept in your application. > > The amount of data that needs to be restored, does not depend on the > window-size, but the store retention time (default 1 day, configurable > via `Materialized#withRetention()`). The window size (and grace period, > if case you use one) is a lower bound for the configurable retention > time though, ie, retention time >= grace-period >= window-size. > > What you also need to take into account is, how often topics are > compacted, and how large the segment size is, because the active segment > is not subject to compaction. > > It's always hard to answer a question like this. I would recommend to do > some testing and benchmark fail over, by manually killing some instances > to simulate a crash. This should give the best insight -- tuning the > above parameters, you can see, what works for your application. > > > > -Matthias > > On 6/8/19 4:28 PM, Pavel Sapozhnikov wrote: > > I suggest take a look at Strimzi project https://strimzi.io/ > > > > Kafka operator deployed in Kubernetes environment. > > > > On Sat, Jun 8, 2019, 6:09 PM Parthasarathy, Mohan <mpart...@hpe.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have read several articles about this topic. We are soon going to > deploy > >> our streaming apps inside k8s. My understanding from reading these > articles > >> is that stateful set in k8s is not mandatory as the application can > rebuild > >> its state if the state store is not present. Can people share their > >> experience or recommendation when it comes to deploying the streaming > apps > >> on k8s ? > >> > >> Also, let us say the application is using a tumbling window of 5 mts. > When > >> an application restarts, is it correct to say that it has to re-build > the > >> state only for that 5 minute window for the partitions that it was > handling > >> before. I had an instance of such a restart where it was running a long > >> time in REBALANCE which makes me think that my understanding is > incorrect. > >> In this case, the state store was available during the restart. Can > someone > >> clarify ? > >> > >> Thanks > >> Mohan > >> > >> > > > > >
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