Details
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New Feature
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
At the moment Flink doesn't have a metrics reporter that can work with very popular DataDog agents out of the box. DataDog agents use DogStatsD protocol which is a superset of StatsD. The existing StatsDReporter is too limited to be useful.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7009 attempted to address this issue by introducing a separate mode in the StatsDReporter, however, I don't believe it's possible to extend it to support DogStatsD due to a few core differences:
- ALL metrics in StatsDReporter are reported as gauges, which makes counters wrong
- Negative values are interpreted as reductions instead of absolute values, which is not true in the case of DogStatsD
- The list of histogram metrics is not compatible with the way they're represented in Datadog
I think this warrants having separate metrics reporter dedicated to DogStatsD protocol.
Also, most of the changes originally proposed in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7009 are still relevant:
- convert output to ascii alphanumeric characters with underbar, delimited by periods. Runs of invalid characters within a metric segment would be collapsed to a single underbar.
- report all Flink variables as tags
- compress overly long segments, say over 50 chars, to a symbolic representation of the metric name, to preserve the unique metric time series but avoid downstream truncation
- compress 32 character Flink IDs like tm_id, task_id, job_id, task_attempt_id, to the first 8 characters, again to preserve enough distinction amongst metrics while trimming up to 96 characters from the metric
- remove object references from names, such as the instance hash id of the serializer
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FLINK-7009 dogstatsd mode in statsd reporter
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