[FLINK-21410] Document checkpoint interval trade-offs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.13.0
• Component/s: Documentation, Runtime / Checkpointing
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Seth Wiesman
• Reporter: Chesnay Schepler
• Created: 18/Feb/21 19:42
• Updated: 19/Feb/21 15:44
• Resolved: 19/Feb/21 15:44

Description

The checkpointing documentation only mentions the interval in passing, without mentioning any trade-offs or considerations to take (more checkpoints -> less data to re-process but more overhead), nor mentions common configurations as a point-of-reference.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14964