hudi-agent commented on code in PR #20154:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/20154#discussion_r4140888825


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hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/health/MetadataCompactionLagCheck.java:
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hudi.utilities.health;
+
+import org.apache.hudi.common.config.HoodieMetadataConfig;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.HoodieTableMetaClient;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieActiveTimeline;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieInstant;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieTimeline;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.TimelineUtils;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.CompactionUtils;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.Option;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.collection.Pair;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.storage.StoragePath;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+/**
+ * Checks whether compaction on the metadata table is keeping pace with the 
delta commits landing
+ * on it.
+ *
+ * <p>The metadata table is a Merge-on-Read table of its own under {@code 
.hoodie/metadata}, and
+ * every data-table write adds a delta commit to it. Its compaction is not a 
separately scheduled
+ * service: the data-table writer runs it inline, after its own commit, when 
the configured number
+ * of delta commits has accumulated. When that compaction stops running, every 
metadata-table read
+ * has to merge an ever-growing chain of log files, and the data table's own 
archival -- which
+ * cannot move past the last metadata-table compaction -- stalls with it.
+ *
+ * <p>The most common reason it stops is not a failure but the rule the writer 
applies to pick the
+ * compaction instant. To keep a compacted base file consistent with the data 
table, the writer
+ * pins the compaction instant just below the earliest data-table instant that 
is still pending
+ * but whose delta commit has already been applied to the metadata table. Once 
a compaction at
+ * that pinned instant exists, every later attempt lands on the same instant 
and is skipped, until
+ * the pending data-table instant completes or is rolled back. A long-running 
or abandoned
+ * data-table instant therefore freezes metadata-table compaction, and it is 
the first thing to
+ * look at.
+ *
+ * <p>The same slack factor as the data-table compaction check is applied 
before calling the table
+ * unhealthy: compaction lands one or two writes after the trigger point, and 
the aim is to catch a
+ * compaction that has stopped, not scheduling jitter.
+ */
+public class MetadataCompactionLagCheck implements HealthCheck {
+
+  static final String NAME = "mdt-compaction";
+
+  /**
+   * How far past the configured trigger point delta commits may accumulate on 
the metadata table
+   * before it is called unhealthy. Compaction is attempted after the write 
that crosses the
+   * trigger, and one more write can land while a pending data-table instant 
briefly pins it.
+   */
+  static final double TRIGGER_SLACK_FACTOR = 2.0;
+
+  @Override
+  public String getName() {
+    return NAME;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getDescription() {
+    return "Whether compaction on the metadata table is keeping pace with its 
delta commits";
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public HealthCheckResult check(HealthCheckContext context) throws Exception {
+    Option<String> missing = context.firstMissingConfig(
+        HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), 
HoodieMetadataConfig.COMPACT_NUM_DELTA_COMMITS.key());
+    if (missing.isPresent()) {
+      return context.skipForMissingConfig(NAME, missing.get());
+    }
+
+    boolean metadataEnabled = 
Boolean.parseBoolean(context.getProps().getString(
+        HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), 
String.valueOf(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.defaultValue())));
+    if (!metadataEnabled) {
+      return HealthCheckResult.skipped(NAME, "Metadata table is disabled for 
this writer ("
+          + HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key() + "=false), so there is no 
metadata table to compact");
+    }
+
+    HoodieTableMetaClient dataMetaClient = context.getMetaClient();
+    Option<String> noMetadataTable = 
MetadataTableSyncCheck.MetadataTablePresence.reasonAbsent(dataMetaClient);
+    if (noMetadataTable.isPresent()) {
+      return HealthCheckResult.skipped(NAME, noMetadataTable.get());
+    }
+
+    int maxDeltaCommits = Integer.parseInt(context.getProps().getString(
+        HoodieMetadataConfig.COMPACT_NUM_DELTA_COMMITS.key(),
+        
String.valueOf(HoodieMetadataConfig.COMPACT_NUM_DELTA_COMMITS.defaultValue())));
+    int threshold = (int) Math.ceil(TRIGGER_SLACK_FACTOR * maxDeltaCommits);
+
+    HealthCheckResult.Builder result = HealthCheckResult.builder(NAME)
+        .config(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), true)
+        .config(HoodieMetadataConfig.COMPACT_NUM_DELTA_COMMITS.key(), 
maxDeltaCommits)
+        .config("effective.unhealthy.threshold.delta.commits", threshold);
+
+    HoodieActiveTimeline metadataTimeline = 
metadataTableMetaClient(dataMetaClient).getActiveTimeline();
+    Option<Pair<HoodieTimeline, HoodieInstant>> sinceLastCompaction =
+        
CompactionUtils.getCompletedDeltaCommitsSinceLatestCompaction(metadataTimeline);
+    if (!sinceLastCompaction.isPresent()) {
+      return result.status(HealthStatus.HEALTHY)
+          .summary("No delta commits have landed on the metadata table yet; 
nothing for compaction to fall behind on")
+          .build();
+    }
+
+    // When no compaction has completed, the instant returned is the first 
delta commit, not a compaction.
+    Option<HoodieInstant> lastCompaction = 
metadataTimeline.getCommitTimeline().filterCompletedInstants().lastInstant();
+    HoodieTimeline deltaCommitsSince = sinceLastCompaction.get().getLeft();
+    String lagStart = lagStartTime(lastCompaction, deltaCommitsSince);
+    Option<HoodieInstant> latestDeltaCommit = deltaCommitsSince.lastInstant();
+    int deltaCommitsSinceCompaction = deltaCommitsSince.countInstants();
+    Option<Long> lagMinutes = latestDeltaCommit.flatMap(latest -> 
minutesBetween(lagStart, latest.requestedTime()));
+    int pendingMetadataCompactions = 
metadataTimeline.filterPendingCompactionTimeline().countInstants();
+    Option<HoodieInstant> earliestPendingDataInstant = 
dataMetaClient.getActiveTimeline().filterInflightsAndRequested().firstInstant();

Review Comment:
   🤖 `compactIfNecessary` only pins compaction on pending data-table instants 
that are already completed in the MDT (`.filter(instant -> 
metadataCompletedTimeline.containsInstant(instant.requestedTime()))`). This 
line takes the earliest pending instant of any action. On a MOR table with 
async compaction or clustering, a pending `compaction.requested`, 
`clustering.requested` or `clean.requested` will usually come first, so the 
finding names an unrelated instant and suggests rolling it back. Could we apply 
the same filter against `metadataTimeline.filterCompletedInstants()` here?
   
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hudi.utilities.health;
+
+import org.apache.hudi.common.config.HoodieMetadataConfig;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.engine.HoodieEngineContext;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.engine.HoodieLocalEngineContext;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.FileSlice;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieBaseFile;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieLogFile;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.HoodieTableMetaClient;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieInstant;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieTimeline;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.view.HoodieTableFileSystemView;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.Option;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.FileSystemBackedTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieBackedTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.storage.StoragePath;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.TreeSet;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+/**
+ * Checks whether the metadata table is caught up with the data table, and 
whether the file listing
+ * it serves agrees with what is actually on storage.
+ *
+ * <p>Two signals. The first is sync lag: every completed data-table write is 
mirrored by a delta
+ * commit on the metadata table with the same instant time, so the latest 
completed metadata-table
+ * delta commit says how far the metadata table has been brought up to date. A 
data-table write
+ * newer than that is one the metadata table does not know about, and readers 
relying on the
+ * metadata table for listings will not see its files.
+ *
+ * <p>The second is listing consistency: for a bounded sample of partitions, 
the latest base files
+ * and log files are listed twice -- once through the metadata table and once 
straight from the
+ * file system -- and compared. A disagreement means the metadata table has 
drifted from storage,
+ * which is the one condition that justifies rebuilding it. The sample is 
bounded because listing a
+ * partition from the file system is precisely the expensive operation the 
metadata table exists to
+ * avoid; a daily health check must not turn into a full table scan. It is 
weighted towards the
+ * most recently written partitions, where drift actually originates, with a 
couple of the oldest
+ * added for coverage. For a complete comparison the finding points at
+ * {@code HoodieMetadataTableValidator}.
+ *
+ * <p>Engine-agnostic: both listing backends and the file-system views are 
built on
+ * {@link HoodieLocalEngineContext}, so no Spark session is needed.
+ */
+public class MetadataTableSyncCheck implements HealthCheck {
+
+  static final String NAME = "mdt-sync";
+
+  /**
+   * Upper bound on partitions whose listings are compared. Each sampled 
partition costs one
+   * file-system listing, which is the operation the metadata table exists to 
avoid, so the sample
+   * is kept small enough to be cheap on a schedule while still catching drift 
that affects the
+   * table broadly rather than a single partition.
+   *
+   * <p>The sample is taken from the <em>end</em> of the sorted partition 
list. Drift comes from
+   * recent writes, cleans and rollbacks, so the partitions most likely to 
disagree are the ones
+   * most recently written -- and on the common date-partitioned table, 
lexical order is time
+   * order, so the last partitions are the newest. Sampling the first ones 
would compare the
+   * partitions least likely to have changed.
+   */
+  static final int MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE = 20;
+
+  /**
+   * How many of the oldest partitions are added to the sample when the table 
has more partitions
+   * than {@link #MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE}, so that drift confined to old 
data (a bad clean, a
+   * partition dropped by hand) is not invisible to a check that otherwise 
looks only at new data.
+   */
+  static final int OLDEST_PARTITIONS_TO_INCLUDE = 2;
+
+  /**
+   * How many differing file names to spell out per partition before 
truncating. Enough to identify
+   * the pattern (one file, one file group, everything) without flooding the 
report.
+   */
+  static final int MAX_DIFFERING_FILES_TO_NAME = 5;
+
+  @Override
+  public String getName() {
+    return NAME;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getDescription() {
+    return "Whether the metadata table is caught up with the data table and 
its file listing matches storage";
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public HealthCheckResult check(HealthCheckContext context) throws Exception {
+    Option<String> missing = 
context.firstMissingConfig(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key());
+    if (missing.isPresent()) {
+      return context.skipForMissingConfig(NAME, missing.get());
+    }
+
+    boolean metadataEnabled = 
Boolean.parseBoolean(context.getProps().getString(
+        HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), 
String.valueOf(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.defaultValue())));
+    if (!metadataEnabled) {
+      return HealthCheckResult.skipped(NAME, "Metadata table is disabled for 
this writer ("
+          + HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key() + "=false), so there is nothing 
to compare against");
+    }
+
+    HoodieTableMetaClient metaClient = context.getMetaClient();
+    Option<String> noMetadataTable = 
MetadataTablePresence.reasonAbsent(metaClient);
+    if (noMetadataTable.isPresent()) {
+      return HealthCheckResult.skipped(NAME, noMetadataTable.get());
+    }
+
+    HealthCheckResult.Builder result = HealthCheckResult.builder(NAME)
+        .config(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), true)
+        .config("effective.partitions.sampled.max", MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE);
+
+    HoodieEngineContext engineContext = new 
HoodieLocalEngineContext(metaClient.getStorageConf());
+    String basePath = metaClient.getBasePath().toString();
+    HoodieMetadataConfig metadataConfig = 
HoodieMetadataConfig.newBuilder().enable(true).build();
+
+    try (HoodieTableMetadata metadataBacked =
+             new HoodieBackedTableMetadata(engineContext, 
metaClient.getStorage(), metadataConfig, basePath);
+         HoodieTableMetadata fileSystemBacked =
+             new FileSystemBackedTableMetadata(engineContext, 
metaClient.getTableConfig(), metaClient.getStorage(), basePath)) {
+
+      SyncLag lag = measureSyncLag(metaClient, metadataBacked);
+      lag.report(result);
+
+      ListingComparison listing = compareSampledPartitions(metaClient, 
metadataBacked, fileSystemBacked);
+      listing.report(result);
+
+      return verdict(result, lag, listing);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private HealthCheckResult verdict(HealthCheckResult.Builder result, SyncLag 
lag, ListingComparison listing) {
+    boolean behind = lag.commitsBehind > 0;
+    boolean inconsistent = !listing.differences.isEmpty();
+
+    if (!behind && !inconsistent) {
+      return result.status(HealthStatus.HEALTHY)
+          .summary(String.format("Metadata table is synced to %s and its 
listing matches storage in all %d sampled partition(s)",
+              lag.syncedInstant.orElse("(no data-table writes yet)"), 
listing.partitionsSampled))
+          .build();
+    }
+
+    if (behind) {
+      result.finding(String.format(
+          "The metadata table is synced to %s but the data table's latest 
completed write is %s; %d completed "
+              + "data-table write(s) are missing from the metadata table. 
Readers that list through the "
+              + "metadata table will not see files from those writes.",
+          lag.syncedInstant.orElse("nothing"), 
lag.latestDataInstant.orElse("nothing"), lag.commitsBehind));
+      result.finding("If a writer is running right now, this can be a write 
that is still being finalized: "
+          + "rerun once it completes. If the metadata table stays behind, look 
for failed or incomplete "
+          + "metadata-table delta commits ('metadata timeline show incomplete' 
in hudi-cli) and for "
+          + "metadata-table errors in the writer logs. Do not delete or 
rebuild the metadata table for "
+          + "lag alone; the next successful write brings it up to date.");
+    }
+
+    for (PartitionDifference difference : listing.differences) {
+      result.finding(difference.describe());
+    }
+    if (inconsistent) {
+      result.finding("The metadata table's listing has drifted from storage. 
Confirm the extent with the full "
+          + "comparison before acting: run HoodieMetadataTableValidator 
(spark-submit, hudi-utilities) with "
+          + "--validate-latest-file-slices --validate-latest-base-files. If it 
confirms the drift, the remedy "
+          + "is to rebuild the metadata table by disabling it for one write 
and re-enabling it; that is "
+          + "disruptive (a full listing and re-indexing of the table) and 
should be scheduled deliberately.");
+    }
+
+    String summary = inconsistent
+        ? String.format("Metadata table listing differs from storage in %d of 
%d sampled partition(s)%s",
+            listing.differences.size(), listing.partitionsSampled,
+            behind ? ", and it is " + lag.commitsBehind + " write(s) behind" : 
"")
+        : String.format("Metadata table is %d completed data-table write(s) 
behind (synced to %s, latest write %s)",
+            lag.commitsBehind, lag.syncedInstant.orElse("nothing"), 
lag.latestDataInstant.orElse("nothing"));
+    return result.status(HealthStatus.UNHEALTHY).summary(summary).build();
+  }
+
+  private SyncLag measureSyncLag(HoodieTableMetaClient metaClient, 
HoodieTableMetadata metadataBacked) {
+    HoodieTimeline completedDataWrites = 
metaClient.getActiveTimeline().getCommitsTimeline().filterCompletedInstants();
+    Option<String> latestDataInstant = 
completedDataWrites.lastInstant().map(HoodieInstant::requestedTime);
+    Option<String> syncedInstant = metadataBacked.getSyncedInstantTime();
+
+    int commitsBehind;
+    if (!latestDataInstant.isPresent()) {
+      commitsBehind = 0;
+    } else if (!syncedInstant.isPresent()) {
+      commitsBehind = completedDataWrites.countInstants();
+    } else {
+      commitsBehind = 
completedDataWrites.findInstantsAfter(syncedInstant.get()).countInstants();

Review Comment:
   🤖 The FILES-partition init delta commit is stamped `SOLO_COMMIT_TIMESTAMP` 
plus an offset (`generateUniqueInstantTime`). If the MDT is created with no 
write after it (for example `metadata create` in hudi-cli, or the write that 
triggered init fails), `getSyncedInstantTime()` returns that zero placeholder. 
Every completed commit in the active timeline then counts as behind, even 
though the init listing already covers them. 
`MetadataCompactionLagCheck.lagStartTime` already guards against this 
placeholder. Could this path do the same?
   
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hudi.utilities.health;
+
+import org.apache.hudi.common.config.HoodieMetadataConfig;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.engine.HoodieEngineContext;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.engine.HoodieLocalEngineContext;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.FileSlice;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieBaseFile;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieLogFile;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.HoodieTableMetaClient;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieInstant;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieTimeline;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.view.HoodieTableFileSystemView;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.Option;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.FileSystemBackedTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieBackedTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.storage.StoragePath;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.TreeSet;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+/**
+ * Checks whether the metadata table is caught up with the data table, and 
whether the file listing
+ * it serves agrees with what is actually on storage.
+ *
+ * <p>Two signals. The first is sync lag: every completed data-table write is 
mirrored by a delta
+ * commit on the metadata table with the same instant time, so the latest 
completed metadata-table
+ * delta commit says how far the metadata table has been brought up to date. A 
data-table write
+ * newer than that is one the metadata table does not know about, and readers 
relying on the
+ * metadata table for listings will not see its files.
+ *
+ * <p>The second is listing consistency: for a bounded sample of partitions, 
the latest base files
+ * and log files are listed twice -- once through the metadata table and once 
straight from the
+ * file system -- and compared. A disagreement means the metadata table has 
drifted from storage,
+ * which is the one condition that justifies rebuilding it. The sample is 
bounded because listing a
+ * partition from the file system is precisely the expensive operation the 
metadata table exists to
+ * avoid; a daily health check must not turn into a full table scan. It is 
weighted towards the
+ * most recently written partitions, where drift actually originates, with a 
couple of the oldest
+ * added for coverage. For a complete comparison the finding points at
+ * {@code HoodieMetadataTableValidator}.
+ *
+ * <p>Engine-agnostic: both listing backends and the file-system views are 
built on
+ * {@link HoodieLocalEngineContext}, so no Spark session is needed.
+ */
+public class MetadataTableSyncCheck implements HealthCheck {
+
+  static final String NAME = "mdt-sync";
+
+  /**
+   * Upper bound on partitions whose listings are compared. Each sampled 
partition costs one
+   * file-system listing, which is the operation the metadata table exists to 
avoid, so the sample
+   * is kept small enough to be cheap on a schedule while still catching drift 
that affects the
+   * table broadly rather than a single partition.
+   *
+   * <p>The sample is taken from the <em>end</em> of the sorted partition 
list. Drift comes from
+   * recent writes, cleans and rollbacks, so the partitions most likely to 
disagree are the ones
+   * most recently written -- and on the common date-partitioned table, 
lexical order is time
+   * order, so the last partitions are the newest. Sampling the first ones 
would compare the
+   * partitions least likely to have changed.
+   */
+  static final int MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE = 20;
+
+  /**
+   * How many of the oldest partitions are added to the sample when the table 
has more partitions
+   * than {@link #MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE}, so that drift confined to old 
data (a bad clean, a
+   * partition dropped by hand) is not invisible to a check that otherwise 
looks only at new data.
+   */
+  static final int OLDEST_PARTITIONS_TO_INCLUDE = 2;
+
+  /**
+   * How many differing file names to spell out per partition before 
truncating. Enough to identify
+   * the pattern (one file, one file group, everything) without flooding the 
report.
+   */
+  static final int MAX_DIFFERING_FILES_TO_NAME = 5;
+
+  @Override
+  public String getName() {
+    return NAME;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getDescription() {
+    return "Whether the metadata table is caught up with the data table and 
its file listing matches storage";
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public HealthCheckResult check(HealthCheckContext context) throws Exception {
+    Option<String> missing = 
context.firstMissingConfig(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key());
+    if (missing.isPresent()) {
+      return context.skipForMissingConfig(NAME, missing.get());
+    }
+
+    boolean metadataEnabled = 
Boolean.parseBoolean(context.getProps().getString(
+        HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), 
String.valueOf(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.defaultValue())));
+    if (!metadataEnabled) {
+      return HealthCheckResult.skipped(NAME, "Metadata table is disabled for 
this writer ("
+          + HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key() + "=false), so there is nothing 
to compare against");
+    }
+
+    HoodieTableMetaClient metaClient = context.getMetaClient();
+    Option<String> noMetadataTable = 
MetadataTablePresence.reasonAbsent(metaClient);
+    if (noMetadataTable.isPresent()) {
+      return HealthCheckResult.skipped(NAME, noMetadataTable.get());
+    }
+
+    HealthCheckResult.Builder result = HealthCheckResult.builder(NAME)
+        .config(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), true)
+        .config("effective.partitions.sampled.max", MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE);
+
+    HoodieEngineContext engineContext = new 
HoodieLocalEngineContext(metaClient.getStorageConf());
+    String basePath = metaClient.getBasePath().toString();
+    HoodieMetadataConfig metadataConfig = 
HoodieMetadataConfig.newBuilder().enable(true).build();
+
+    try (HoodieTableMetadata metadataBacked =
+             new HoodieBackedTableMetadata(engineContext, 
metaClient.getStorage(), metadataConfig, basePath);
+         HoodieTableMetadata fileSystemBacked =
+             new FileSystemBackedTableMetadata(engineContext, 
metaClient.getTableConfig(), metaClient.getStorage(), basePath)) {
+
+      SyncLag lag = measureSyncLag(metaClient, metadataBacked);
+      lag.report(result);
+
+      ListingComparison listing = compareSampledPartitions(metaClient, 
metadataBacked, fileSystemBacked);
+      listing.report(result);
+
+      return verdict(result, lag, listing);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private HealthCheckResult verdict(HealthCheckResult.Builder result, SyncLag 
lag, ListingComparison listing) {
+    boolean behind = lag.commitsBehind > 0;
+    boolean inconsistent = !listing.differences.isEmpty();
+
+    if (!behind && !inconsistent) {
+      return result.status(HealthStatus.HEALTHY)
+          .summary(String.format("Metadata table is synced to %s and its 
listing matches storage in all %d sampled partition(s)",
+              lag.syncedInstant.orElse("(no data-table writes yet)"), 
listing.partitionsSampled))
+          .build();
+    }
+
+    if (behind) {
+      result.finding(String.format(
+          "The metadata table is synced to %s but the data table's latest 
completed write is %s; %d completed "
+              + "data-table write(s) are missing from the metadata table. 
Readers that list through the "
+              + "metadata table will not see files from those writes.",
+          lag.syncedInstant.orElse("nothing"), 
lag.latestDataInstant.orElse("nothing"), lag.commitsBehind));
+      result.finding("If a writer is running right now, this can be a write 
that is still being finalized: "
+          + "rerun once it completes. If the metadata table stays behind, look 
for failed or incomplete "
+          + "metadata-table delta commits ('metadata timeline show incomplete' 
in hudi-cli) and for "
+          + "metadata-table errors in the writer logs. Do not delete or 
rebuild the metadata table for "
+          + "lag alone; the next successful write brings it up to date.");

Review Comment:
   🤖 I don't think the next successful write brings the MDT up to date here. 
The MDT delta commit completes before the data-table instant does, and the 
writer never replays a missed instant (`isBootstrapNeeded` only re-initializes 
when the MDT timeline is empty). The next write just moves 
`getSyncedInstantTime()` past the gap: this check goes HEALTHY while that 
write's files stay missing from MDT listings. Could lag be handled like an 
inconsistency (point to the validator) instead of "rerun, do not rebuild"? The 
same wording is in SKILL.md and references/checks.md.
   
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hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/health/MetadataTableSyncCheck.java:
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hudi.utilities.health;
+
+import org.apache.hudi.common.config.HoodieMetadataConfig;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.engine.HoodieEngineContext;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.engine.HoodieLocalEngineContext;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.FileSlice;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieBaseFile;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieLogFile;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.HoodieTableMetaClient;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieInstant;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieTimeline;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.view.HoodieTableFileSystemView;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.Option;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.FileSystemBackedTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieBackedTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.storage.StoragePath;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.TreeSet;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+/**
+ * Checks whether the metadata table is caught up with the data table, and 
whether the file listing
+ * it serves agrees with what is actually on storage.
+ *
+ * <p>Two signals. The first is sync lag: every completed data-table write is 
mirrored by a delta
+ * commit on the metadata table with the same instant time, so the latest 
completed metadata-table
+ * delta commit says how far the metadata table has been brought up to date. A 
data-table write
+ * newer than that is one the metadata table does not know about, and readers 
relying on the
+ * metadata table for listings will not see its files.
+ *
+ * <p>The second is listing consistency: for a bounded sample of partitions, 
the latest base files
+ * and log files are listed twice -- once through the metadata table and once 
straight from the
+ * file system -- and compared. A disagreement means the metadata table has 
drifted from storage,
+ * which is the one condition that justifies rebuilding it. The sample is 
bounded because listing a
+ * partition from the file system is precisely the expensive operation the 
metadata table exists to
+ * avoid; a daily health check must not turn into a full table scan. It is 
weighted towards the
+ * most recently written partitions, where drift actually originates, with a 
couple of the oldest
+ * added for coverage. For a complete comparison the finding points at
+ * {@code HoodieMetadataTableValidator}.
+ *
+ * <p>Engine-agnostic: both listing backends and the file-system views are 
built on
+ * {@link HoodieLocalEngineContext}, so no Spark session is needed.
+ */
+public class MetadataTableSyncCheck implements HealthCheck {
+
+  static final String NAME = "mdt-sync";
+
+  /**
+   * Upper bound on partitions whose listings are compared. Each sampled 
partition costs one
+   * file-system listing, which is the operation the metadata table exists to 
avoid, so the sample
+   * is kept small enough to be cheap on a schedule while still catching drift 
that affects the
+   * table broadly rather than a single partition.
+   *
+   * <p>The sample is taken from the <em>end</em> of the sorted partition 
list. Drift comes from
+   * recent writes, cleans and rollbacks, so the partitions most likely to 
disagree are the ones
+   * most recently written -- and on the common date-partitioned table, 
lexical order is time
+   * order, so the last partitions are the newest. Sampling the first ones 
would compare the
+   * partitions least likely to have changed.
+   */
+  static final int MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE = 20;
+
+  /**
+   * How many of the oldest partitions are added to the sample when the table 
has more partitions
+   * than {@link #MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE}, so that drift confined to old 
data (a bad clean, a
+   * partition dropped by hand) is not invisible to a check that otherwise 
looks only at new data.
+   */
+  static final int OLDEST_PARTITIONS_TO_INCLUDE = 2;
+
+  /**
+   * How many differing file names to spell out per partition before 
truncating. Enough to identify
+   * the pattern (one file, one file group, everything) without flooding the 
report.
+   */
+  static final int MAX_DIFFERING_FILES_TO_NAME = 5;
+
+  @Override
+  public String getName() {
+    return NAME;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getDescription() {
+    return "Whether the metadata table is caught up with the data table and 
its file listing matches storage";
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public HealthCheckResult check(HealthCheckContext context) throws Exception {
+    Option<String> missing = 
context.firstMissingConfig(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key());
+    if (missing.isPresent()) {
+      return context.skipForMissingConfig(NAME, missing.get());
+    }
+
+    boolean metadataEnabled = 
Boolean.parseBoolean(context.getProps().getString(
+        HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), 
String.valueOf(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.defaultValue())));
+    if (!metadataEnabled) {
+      return HealthCheckResult.skipped(NAME, "Metadata table is disabled for 
this writer ("
+          + HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key() + "=false), so there is nothing 
to compare against");
+    }
+
+    HoodieTableMetaClient metaClient = context.getMetaClient();
+    Option<String> noMetadataTable = 
MetadataTablePresence.reasonAbsent(metaClient);
+    if (noMetadataTable.isPresent()) {
+      return HealthCheckResult.skipped(NAME, noMetadataTable.get());
+    }
+
+    HealthCheckResult.Builder result = HealthCheckResult.builder(NAME)
+        .config(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), true)
+        .config("effective.partitions.sampled.max", MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE);
+
+    HoodieEngineContext engineContext = new 
HoodieLocalEngineContext(metaClient.getStorageConf());
+    String basePath = metaClient.getBasePath().toString();
+    HoodieMetadataConfig metadataConfig = 
HoodieMetadataConfig.newBuilder().enable(true).build();
+
+    try (HoodieTableMetadata metadataBacked =
+             new HoodieBackedTableMetadata(engineContext, 
metaClient.getStorage(), metadataConfig, basePath);
+         HoodieTableMetadata fileSystemBacked =
+             new FileSystemBackedTableMetadata(engineContext, 
metaClient.getTableConfig(), metaClient.getStorage(), basePath)) {
+
+      SyncLag lag = measureSyncLag(metaClient, metadataBacked);
+      lag.report(result);
+
+      ListingComparison listing = compareSampledPartitions(metaClient, 
metadataBacked, fileSystemBacked);
+      listing.report(result);
+
+      return verdict(result, lag, listing);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private HealthCheckResult verdict(HealthCheckResult.Builder result, SyncLag 
lag, ListingComparison listing) {
+    boolean behind = lag.commitsBehind > 0;
+    boolean inconsistent = !listing.differences.isEmpty();
+
+    if (!behind && !inconsistent) {
+      return result.status(HealthStatus.HEALTHY)
+          .summary(String.format("Metadata table is synced to %s and its 
listing matches storage in all %d sampled partition(s)",
+              lag.syncedInstant.orElse("(no data-table writes yet)"), 
listing.partitionsSampled))
+          .build();
+    }
+
+    if (behind) {
+      result.finding(String.format(
+          "The metadata table is synced to %s but the data table's latest 
completed write is %s; %d completed "
+              + "data-table write(s) are missing from the metadata table. 
Readers that list through the "
+              + "metadata table will not see files from those writes.",
+          lag.syncedInstant.orElse("nothing"), 
lag.latestDataInstant.orElse("nothing"), lag.commitsBehind));
+      result.finding("If a writer is running right now, this can be a write 
that is still being finalized: "
+          + "rerun once it completes. If the metadata table stays behind, look 
for failed or incomplete "
+          + "metadata-table delta commits ('metadata timeline show incomplete' 
in hudi-cli) and for "
+          + "metadata-table errors in the writer logs. Do not delete or 
rebuild the metadata table for "
+          + "lag alone; the next successful write brings it up to date.");
+    }
+
+    for (PartitionDifference difference : listing.differences) {
+      result.finding(difference.describe());
+    }
+    if (inconsistent) {
+      result.finding("The metadata table's listing has drifted from storage. 
Confirm the extent with the full "
+          + "comparison before acting: run HoodieMetadataTableValidator 
(spark-submit, hudi-utilities) with "
+          + "--validate-latest-file-slices --validate-latest-base-files. If it 
confirms the drift, the remedy "
+          + "is to rebuild the metadata table by disabling it for one write 
and re-enabling it; that is "
+          + "disruptive (a full listing and re-indexing of the table) and 
should be scheduled deliberately.");
+    }
+
+    String summary = inconsistent
+        ? String.format("Metadata table listing differs from storage in %d of 
%d sampled partition(s)%s",
+            listing.differences.size(), listing.partitionsSampled,
+            behind ? ", and it is " + lag.commitsBehind + " write(s) behind" : 
"")
+        : String.format("Metadata table is %d completed data-table write(s) 
behind (synced to %s, latest write %s)",
+            lag.commitsBehind, lag.syncedInstant.orElse("nothing"), 
lag.latestDataInstant.orElse("nothing"));
+    return result.status(HealthStatus.UNHEALTHY).summary(summary).build();
+  }
+
+  private SyncLag measureSyncLag(HoodieTableMetaClient metaClient, 
HoodieTableMetadata metadataBacked) {
+    HoodieTimeline completedDataWrites = 
metaClient.getActiveTimeline().getCommitsTimeline().filterCompletedInstants();
+    Option<String> latestDataInstant = 
completedDataWrites.lastInstant().map(HoodieInstant::requestedTime);
+    Option<String> syncedInstant = metadataBacked.getSyncedInstantTime();
+
+    int commitsBehind;
+    if (!latestDataInstant.isPresent()) {
+      commitsBehind = 0;
+    } else if (!syncedInstant.isPresent()) {
+      commitsBehind = completedDataWrites.countInstants();
+    } else {
+      commitsBehind = 
completedDataWrites.findInstantsAfter(syncedInstant.get()).countInstants();
+    }
+    return new SyncLag(latestDataInstant, syncedInstant, commitsBehind);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Compares the latest base-file and log-file names per sampled partition 
between the two listing
+   * backends. Both views are opened over the same completed-commits timeline 
so that a write landing
+   * mid-check cannot show up as a difference.
+   */
+  private ListingComparison compareSampledPartitions(HoodieTableMetaClient 
metaClient,
+                                                    HoodieTableMetadata 
metadataBacked,
+                                                    HoodieTableMetadata 
fileSystemBacked) throws IOException {
+    List<String> sampled = 
samplePartitions(metadataBacked.getAllPartitionPaths());
+
+    HoodieTimeline visibleTimeline = 
metaClient.getActiveTimeline().getCommitsTimeline().filterCompletedInstants();
+    List<PartitionDifference> differences = new ArrayList<>();
+    try (HoodieTableFileSystemView metadataView = new 
HoodieTableFileSystemView(metadataBacked, metaClient, visibleTimeline);
+         HoodieTableFileSystemView fileSystemView = new 
HoodieTableFileSystemView(fileSystemBacked, metaClient, visibleTimeline)) {
+      for (String partition : sampled) {
+        PartitionDifference difference = new PartitionDifference(partition,
+            latestBaseFileNames(metadataView, partition), 
latestBaseFileNames(fileSystemView, partition),
+            latestLogFileNames(metadataView, partition), 
latestLogFileNames(fileSystemView, partition));
+        if (difference.isPresent()) {
+          differences.add(difference);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return new ListingComparison(sampled.size(), differences);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The partitions to compare: all of them when there are few, otherwise the 
newest
+   * {@link #MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE} in sorted order plus the {@link 
#OLDEST_PARTITIONS_TO_INCLUDE}
+   * oldest. Sorted, so the result is stable from one run to the next.
+   */
+  static List<String> samplePartitions(List<String> allPartitions) {
+    List<String> sorted = new ArrayList<>(allPartitions);
+    Collections.sort(sorted);
+    if (sorted.size() <= MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE) {
+      return sorted;
+    }
+    List<String> sampled = new ArrayList<>(sorted.subList(0, 
OLDEST_PARTITIONS_TO_INCLUDE));
+    sampled.addAll(sorted.subList(sorted.size() - MAX_PARTITIONS_TO_COMPARE, 
sorted.size()));
+    return sampled;
+  }
+
+  private static Set<String> latestBaseFileNames(HoodieTableFileSystemView 
view, String partition) {
+    return 
view.getLatestBaseFiles(partition).map(HoodieBaseFile::getFileName).collect(Collectors.toCollection(TreeSet::new));
+  }
+
+  private static Set<String> latestLogFileNames(HoodieTableFileSystemView 
view, String partition) {
+    return view.getLatestFileSlices(partition).flatMap(FileSlice::getLogFiles)
+        
.map(HoodieLogFile::getFileName).collect(Collectors.toCollection(TreeSet::new));
+  }
+
+  private static final class SyncLag {
+    private final Option<String> latestDataInstant;
+    private final Option<String> syncedInstant;
+    private final int commitsBehind;
+
+    private SyncLag(Option<String> latestDataInstant, Option<String> 
syncedInstant, int commitsBehind) {
+      this.latestDataInstant = latestDataInstant;
+      this.syncedInstant = syncedInstant;
+      this.commitsBehind = commitsBehind;
+    }
+
+    private void report(HealthCheckResult.Builder result) {
+      result.config("observed.data.table.latest.completed.instant", 
latestDataInstant.orElse("none"))
+          .config("observed.mdt.synced.instant", syncedInstant.orElse("none"))
+          .config("observed.data.table.writes.behind", commitsBehind);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private static final class ListingComparison {
+    private final int partitionsSampled;
+    private final List<PartitionDifference> differences;
+
+    private ListingComparison(int partitionsSampled, List<PartitionDifference> 
differences) {
+      this.partitionsSampled = partitionsSampled;
+      this.differences = differences;
+    }
+
+    private void report(HealthCheckResult.Builder result) {
+      result.config("observed.partitions.sampled", partitionsSampled)
+          .config("observed.partitions.inconsistent", differences.size());
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** What one partition's two listings disagree on, if anything. */
+  private static final class PartitionDifference {
+    private final String partition;
+    private final Set<String> baseFilesOnlyInMetadata;
+    private final Set<String> baseFilesOnlyOnStorage;
+    private final Set<String> logFilesOnlyInMetadata;
+    private final Set<String> logFilesOnlyOnStorage;
+
+    private PartitionDifference(String partition, Set<String> 
metadataBaseFiles, Set<String> storageBaseFiles,
+                                Set<String> metadataLogFiles, Set<String> 
storageLogFiles) {
+      this.partition = partition;
+      this.baseFilesOnlyInMetadata = difference(metadataBaseFiles, 
storageBaseFiles);
+      this.baseFilesOnlyOnStorage = difference(storageBaseFiles, 
metadataBaseFiles);
+      this.logFilesOnlyInMetadata = difference(metadataLogFiles, 
storageLogFiles);
+      this.logFilesOnlyOnStorage = difference(storageLogFiles, 
metadataLogFiles);
+    }
+
+    private static Set<String> difference(Set<String> left, Set<String> right) 
{
+      Set<String> onlyInLeft = new TreeSet<>(left);
+      onlyInLeft.removeAll(right);
+      return onlyInLeft;
+    }
+
+    private boolean isPresent() {
+      return !baseFilesOnlyInMetadata.isEmpty() || 
!baseFilesOnlyOnStorage.isEmpty()
+          || !logFilesOnlyInMetadata.isEmpty() || 
!logFilesOnlyOnStorage.isEmpty();
+    }
+
+    private String describe() {
+      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(String.format("Partition '%s': ", 
partition.isEmpty() ? "(non-partitioned)" : partition));
+      appendIfAny(sb, "base files listed by the metadata table but absent on 
storage", baseFilesOnlyInMetadata);
+      appendIfAny(sb, "base files on storage but missing from the metadata 
table", baseFilesOnlyOnStorage);
+      appendIfAny(sb, "log files listed by the metadata table but absent on 
storage", logFilesOnlyInMetadata);
+      appendIfAny(sb, "log files on storage but missing from the metadata 
table", logFilesOnlyOnStorage);
+      return sb.toString();
+    }
+
+    private static void appendIfAny(StringBuilder sb, String label, 
Set<String> files) {
+      if (files.isEmpty()) {
+        return;
+      }
+      List<String> named = 
files.stream().limit(MAX_DIFFERING_FILES_TO_NAME).collect(Collectors.toList());
+      String more = files.size() > named.size() ? String.format(" (+%d more)", 
files.size() - named.size()) : "";
+      sb.append(String.format("%d %s %s%s. ", files.size(), label, named, 
more));

Review Comment:
   🤖 nit: `named` is a `List<String>`, so `%s` here will render it with `[...]` 
brackets and comma-separators in the operator-facing finding text (e.g. `3 base 
files ... [a.parquet, b.parquet, c.parquet] (+2 more)`). Consider joining with 
`String.join(", ", named)` for cleaner prose.
   
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hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/health/MetadataCompactionLagCheck.java:
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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hudi.utilities.health;
+
+import org.apache.hudi.common.config.HoodieMetadataConfig;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.HoodieTableMetaClient;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieActiveTimeline;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieInstant;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.HoodieTimeline;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.table.timeline.TimelineUtils;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.CompactionUtils;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.Option;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.util.collection.Pair;
+import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieTableMetadata;
+import org.apache.hudi.storage.StoragePath;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+/**
+ * Checks whether compaction on the metadata table is keeping pace with the 
delta commits landing
+ * on it.
+ *
+ * <p>The metadata table is a Merge-on-Read table of its own under {@code 
.hoodie/metadata}, and
+ * every data-table write adds a delta commit to it. Its compaction is not a 
separately scheduled
+ * service: the data-table writer runs it inline, after its own commit, when 
the configured number
+ * of delta commits has accumulated. When that compaction stops running, every 
metadata-table read
+ * has to merge an ever-growing chain of log files, and the data table's own 
archival -- which
+ * cannot move past the last metadata-table compaction -- stalls with it.
+ *
+ * <p>The most common reason it stops is not a failure but the rule the writer 
applies to pick the
+ * compaction instant. To keep a compacted base file consistent with the data 
table, the writer
+ * pins the compaction instant just below the earliest data-table instant that 
is still pending
+ * but whose delta commit has already been applied to the metadata table. Once 
a compaction at
+ * that pinned instant exists, every later attempt lands on the same instant 
and is skipped, until
+ * the pending data-table instant completes or is rolled back. A long-running 
or abandoned
+ * data-table instant therefore freezes metadata-table compaction, and it is 
the first thing to
+ * look at.
+ *
+ * <p>The same slack factor as the data-table compaction check is applied 
before calling the table
+ * unhealthy: compaction lands one or two writes after the trigger point, and 
the aim is to catch a
+ * compaction that has stopped, not scheduling jitter.
+ */
+public class MetadataCompactionLagCheck implements HealthCheck {
+
+  static final String NAME = "mdt-compaction";
+
+  /**
+   * How far past the configured trigger point delta commits may accumulate on 
the metadata table
+   * before it is called unhealthy. Compaction is attempted after the write 
that crosses the
+   * trigger, and one more write can land while a pending data-table instant 
briefly pins it.
+   */
+  static final double TRIGGER_SLACK_FACTOR = 2.0;
+
+  @Override
+  public String getName() {
+    return NAME;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getDescription() {
+    return "Whether compaction on the metadata table is keeping pace with its 
delta commits";
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public HealthCheckResult check(HealthCheckContext context) throws Exception {
+    Option<String> missing = context.firstMissingConfig(
+        HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), 
HoodieMetadataConfig.COMPACT_NUM_DELTA_COMMITS.key());
+    if (missing.isPresent()) {
+      return context.skipForMissingConfig(NAME, missing.get());
+    }
+
+    boolean metadataEnabled = 
Boolean.parseBoolean(context.getProps().getString(
+        HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key(), 
String.valueOf(HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.defaultValue())));
+    if (!metadataEnabled) {
+      return HealthCheckResult.skipped(NAME, "Metadata table is disabled for 
this writer ("
+          + HoodieMetadataConfig.ENABLE.key() + "=false), so there is no 
metadata table to compact");
+    }
+
+    HoodieTableMetaClient dataMetaClient = context.getMetaClient();
+    Option<String> noMetadataTable = 
MetadataTableSyncCheck.MetadataTablePresence.reasonAbsent(dataMetaClient);

Review Comment:
   🤖 nit: reaching into `MetadataTableSyncCheck.MetadataTablePresence` couples 
these two otherwise-independent check classes together. Might be cleaner to 
pull `reasonAbsent` into a small shared helper (or a static method on 
`HealthCheck`/`HealthCheckContext`) so neither check class depends on the 
other's internals.
   
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