Metrics and Logging #
Metrics #
The Flink Kubernetes Operator (Operator) extends the Flink Metric System that allows gathering and exposing metrics to centralized monitoring solutions.
Different operator metrics can be turned on/off individually using the configuration. For details check the metrics config reference.
Flink Resource Metrics #
The Operator gathers aggregates metrics about managed resources.
Scope | Metrics | Description | Type |
---|---|---|---|
Namespace | FlinkDeployment/FlinkSessionJob.Count | Number of managed resources per namespace | Gauge |
Namespace | FlinkDeployment.ResourceUsage.Cpu/Memory | Total resources used per namespace | Gauge |
Namespace | FlinkDeployment.JmDeploymentStatus.<Status>.Count | Number of managed FlinkDeployment resources per <Status> per namespace. <Status> can take values from: READY, DEPLOYED_NOT_READY, DEPLOYING, MISSING, ERROR | Gauge |
Namespace | FlinkDeployment.FlinkVersion.<FlinkVersion>.Count | Number of managed FlinkDeployment resources per <FlinkVersion> per namespace. <FlinkVersion> is retrieved via REST API from Flink JM. | Gauge |
Namespace | FlinkDeployment/FlinkSessionJob.Lifecycle.State.<State>.Count | Number of managed resources currently in state <State> per namespace. <State> can take values from: CREATED, SUSPENDED, UPGRADING, DEPLOYED, STABLE, ROLLING_BACK, ROLLED_BACK, FAILED | Gauge |
System/Namespace | FlinkDeployment/FlinkSessionJob.Lifecycle.State.<State>.TimeSeconds | Time spent in state <State$gt for a given resource. <State> can take values from: CREATED, SUSPENDED, UPGRADING, DEPLOYED, STABLE, ROLLING_BACK, ROLLED_BACK, FAILED | Histogram |
System/Namespace | FlinkDeployment/FlinkSessionJob.Lifecycle.Transition.<Transition>.TimeSeconds | Time statistics for selected lifecycle state transitions. <Transition> can take values from: Resume, Upgrade, Suspend, Stabilization, Rollback, Submission | Histogram |
Lifecycle metrics #
Based on the resource status the operator monitors resource lifecycle states.
The number of resources and time spend in each of these states at any given time is tracked by the Lifecycle.<STATE>.Count
and Lifecycle.<STATE>.TimeSeconds
metrics.
In addition to the simple counts we further track a few selected state transitions:
- Upgrade : End-to-end resource upgrade time from stable to stable
- Resume : Time from suspended to stable
- Suspend : Time for any suspend operation
- Stabilization : Time from deployed to stable state
- Rollback : Time from deployed to rolled_back state if the resource was rolled back
- Submission: Flink resource submission time
Kubernetes Client Metrics #
The Operator gathers various metrics related to Kubernetes API server access.
Scope | Metrics | Description | Type |
---|---|---|---|
System | KubeClient.HttpRequest.Count | Number of HTTP request sent to the Kubernetes API Server | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpRequest.<RequestMethod>.Count | Number of HTTP request sent to the Kubernetes API Server per request method. <RequestMethod> can take values from: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, etc. | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpRequest.Failed.Count | Number of failed HTTP requests that has no response from the Kubernetes API Server | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.Count | Number of HTTP responses received from the Kubernetes API Server | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.<ResponseCode>.Count | Number of HTTP responses received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code. <ResponseCode> can take values from: 200, 404, 503, etc. | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.<ResponseCode>.NumPerSecond | Number of HTTP responses received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code per second. <ResponseCode> can take values from: 200, 404, 503, etc. | Meter |
System | KubeClient.HttpRequest.NumPerSecond | Number of HTTP requests sent to the Kubernetes API Server per second | Meter |
System | KubeClient.HttpRequest.Failed.NumPerSecond | Number of failed HTTP requests sent to the Kubernetes API Server per second | Meter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.NumPerSecond | Number of HTTP responses received from the Kubernetes API Server per second | Meter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.TimeNanos | Latency statistics obtained from the HTTP responses received from the Kubernetes API Server | Histogram |
Kubernetes client metrics by Http Response Code #
It’s possible to publish additional metrics by Http response code received from API server by setting kubernetes.client.metrics.http.response.code.groups.enabled
to true
.
Scope | Metrics | Description | Type |
---|---|---|---|
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.1xx.Count | Number of HTTP Code 1xx responses (informational) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code. | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.2xx.Count | Number of HTTP Code 2xx responses (success) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code. | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.3xx.Count | Number of HTTP Code 3xx responses (redirection) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code. | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.4xx.Count | Number of HTTP Code 4xx responses (client error) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code. | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.5xx.Count | Number of HTTP Code 5xx responses (server error) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code. | Counter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.1xx.NumPerSecond | Number of HTTP Code 1xx responses (informational) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code per second. | Meter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.2xx.NumPerSecond | Number of HTTP Code 2xx responses (success) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code per second. | Meter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.3xx.NumPerSecond | Number of HTTP Code 3xx responses (redirection) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code per second. | Meter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.4xx.NumPerSecond | Number of HTTP Code 4xx responses (client error) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code per second. | Meter |
System | KubeClient.HttpResponse.5xx.NumPerSecond | Number of HTTP Code 5xx responses (server error) received from the Kubernetes API Server per response code per second. | Meter |
JVM Metrics #
The Operator gathers metrics about the JVM process and exposes it similarly to core Flink System metrics. The list of metrics are not repeated in this document.
JOSDK Metrics #
The Flink operator also forwards metrics created by the Java Operator SDK framework itself under the JOSDK
metric name prefix.
Some of these metrics are on system, namespace and resource level.
Metric Reporters #
The well known Metric Reporters are shipped in the operator image and are ready to use.
In order to specify metrics configuration for the operator, prefix them with kubernetes.operator.
. This logic ensures that we can separate Flink job and operator metrics configuration.
Let’s look at a few examples.
Slf4j #
The default metrics reporter in the operator is Slf4j. It does not require any external monitoring systems, and it is enabled in the values.yaml
file by default, mainly for demonstrating purposes.
defaultConfiguration:
create: true
append: true
flink-conf.yaml: |+
kubernetes.operator.metrics.reporter.slf4j.factory.class: org.apache.flink.metrics.slf4j.Slf4jReporterFactory
kubernetes.operator.metrics.reporter.slf4j.interval: 5 MINUTE
To use a more robust production grade monitoring solution the configuration needs to be changed.
How to Enable Prometheus (Example) #
The following example shows how to enable the Prometheus metric reporter:
defaultConfiguration:
create: true
append: true
flink-conf.yaml: |+
kubernetes.operator.metrics.reporter.prom.factory.class: org.apache.flink.metrics.prometheus.PrometheusReporterFactory
kubernetes.operator.metrics.reporter.prom.port: 9999
Some metric reporters, including the Prometheus, need a port to be exposed on the container. This can be achieved be defining a value for the otherwise empty metrics.port
variable.
Either in the values.yaml
file:
metrics:
port: 9999
or using the option --set metrics.port=9999
in the command line.
Set up Prometheus locally #
The Prometheus Operator among other options provides an elegant, declarative way to specify how group of pods should be monitored using custom resources.
To install the Prometheus operator via Helm run:
helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack
The Grafana dashboard can be accessed through port-forwarding:
kubectl port-forward deployment/prometheus-grafana 3000
The credentials for the dashboard can be retrieved by:
kubectl get secret prometheus-grafana -o jsonpath="{.data.admin-user}" | base64 --decode ; echo
kubectl get secret prometheus-grafana -o jsonpath="{.data.admin-password}" | base64 --decode ; echo
To enable the operator metrics in Prometheus create a pod-monitor.yaml
file with the following content:
apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
kind: PodMonitor
metadata:
name: flink-kubernetes-operator
labels:
release: prometheus
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: flink-kubernetes-operator
podMetricsEndpoints:
- port: metrics
and apply it on your Kubernetes environment:
kubectl create -f pod-monitor.yaml
Once the custom resource is created in the Kubernetes environment the operator metrics are ready to explore http://localhost:3000/explore.
Logging #
The Operator controls the logging behaviour for Flink applications and the Operator itself using configuration files mounted externally via ConfigMaps. Configuration files with default values are shipped in the Helm chart. It is recommended to review and adjust them if needed in the values.yaml
file before deploying the Operator in production environments.
To append/override the default log configuration properties for the operator and Flink deployments define the log4j-operator.properties
and log4j-console.properties
keys respectively:
defaultConfiguration:
create: true
append: true
log4j-operator.properties: |+
# Flink Operator Logging Overrides
# rootLogger.level = DEBUG
log4j-console.properties: |+
# Flink Deployment Logging Overrides
# rootLogger.level = DEBUG
Logging in the operator is intentionally succinct and does not include contextual information such as namespace or name of the FlinkDeployment objects. We rely on the MDC provided by the operator-sdk to access this information and use it directly in the log layout.
See the Java Operator SDK docs for more detail.
To learn more about accessing the job logs or changing the log level dynamically check the corresponding section of the core documentation.
FlinkDeployment Logging Configuration #
Users have the freedom to override the default log4j-console.properties
settings on a per-deployment level by putting the entire log configuration into spec.logConfiguration
:
spec:
...
logConfiguration:
log4j-console.properties: |+
rootLogger.level = DEBUG
rootLogger.appenderRef.file.ref = LogFile
...
FlinkDeployment Prometheus Configuration #
The following example shows how to enable the Prometheus metric reporter for the FlinkDeployment:
spec:
...
flinkConfiguration:
metrics.reporter.prom.factory.class: org.apache.flink.metrics.prometheus.PrometheusReporterFactory
metrics.reporter.prom.port: 9249-9250