[SPARK-27189] Add Executor metrics and memory usage instrumentation to the metrics system

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Assignee: Luca Canali
• Reporter: Luca Canali
• Created: 18/Mar/19 12:58
• Updated: 11/Dec/19 19:49
• Resolved: 09/Dec/19 15:03

Description

This proposes to add instrumentation of memory usage via the Spark Dropwizard/Codahale metrics system. Memory usage metrics are available via the Executor metrics, recently implemented as detailed in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-23206.
Making metrics usage metrics available via the Spark Dropwzard metrics system allow to improve Spark performance dashboards and study memory usage, as in the attached example graph.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #24132