Description
We'd like metrics to track latencies for various operations, such as latencies for various request types, etc. This may need to be done different from current metrics types that are just counters of type long, and it needs to be done intelligently as these measurements are very numerous, and are primarily interesting due to the outliers that are unpredictably far from normal. A few ideas on how we might implement something like this:
- An adaptive, sparse histogram type. I envision something configurable with a maximumum granularity and a maximum number of bins. Initially, datapoints are tallied in bins with the maximum granularity. As we reach the maximum number of bins, bins are merged in even / odd pairs. There's some complexity here, especially to make it perform well and allow safe concurrency, but I like the ability to configure reasonable limits and retain as much granularity as possible without knowing the exact shape of the data beforehand.
- LongMetrics named "read_latency_600ms", "read_latency_800ms" to represent bins. This was suggested to me by fabbri. I initially did not like the idea of having either so many hard-coded bins for however many op types, but this could also be done dynamically (we just hard-code which measurements we take, and with what granularity to group them, e.g. read_latency, 200 ms). The resulting dataset could be sparse and dynamic to allow for extreme outliers, but the granularity is still pre-determined.
- We could also simply track a certain number of the highest latencies, and basic descriptive statistics like a running average, min / max, etc. Inherently more limited in what it can show us, but much simpler and might still provide some insight when analyzing performance.
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HADOOP-14475 Metrics of S3A don't print out when enable it in Hadoop metrics property file
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