[FLINK-16222] Use plugins mechanism for initializing MetricReporters

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.0
• Component/s: Runtime / Metrics
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Alexander Fedulov
• Reporter: Alexander Fedulov
• Created: 21/Feb/20 16:04
• Updated: 25/Jan/22 08:59
• Resolved: 27/Mar/20 21:38

Description

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11952 introduced Plugins mechanism into Flink. Metrics reporters initialization mechanism can profit from using this new functionality. Instead of placing MetricsReporters JARs into /libs, it should be additionally possible (and encouraged) to convert them into plugins and use the /plugins folder for initialization via independent plugin classloaders.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11195