[BEAM-7240] Kinesis IO Watermark Computation Improvements

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Triage Needed
• Priority: P3
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.14.0
• Component/s: io-java-kinesis
• Assignee: Ajo Thomas
• Reporter: Ajo Thomas
• Created: 07/May/19 16:20
• Updated: 23/Nov/24 09:38
• Resolved: 16/May/19 15:42

Description

Currently, watermarks in kinesis IO are computed taking into account the record arrival time in a KinesisRecord. The arrival time might not always be the right representation of the event time. The user of the IO should be able to specify how they want to extract the event time from the KinesisRecord.
As the per current logic, the end user of the IO cannot control watermark computation in any way. A user should be able to control watermark computation through some custom heuristics or configurable params like time duration to advance the watermark if no data was received (could be due to a shard getting stalled.  The watermark should advance and not be stalled in that case).

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8513