Hi Tony, you can consider implementing a reporter, use a trick to convert the flink's metrics to the structure that suits your needs.
This is just my personal practice, hoping to help you. Cheers, Hai Zhou > 在 2017年9月26日，17:49，Tony Wei <tony19920...@gmail.com> 写道： > > Hi, > > Recently, I am using PrometheusReporter to monitor every metrics from Flink. > > I found that the metric name in Prometheus will map to the identifier from > User Scope and System Scope [1], and the labels will map to Variables [2]. > > To monitor the same metrics from Prometheus, I would like to use labels to > differentiate them. > Under the job/task/operator scope, it words fine to me. However, its not > convenient to me to monitor partitions' states from Kakfa consumer, because I > couldn't place partition id like a tag on each metric. All partition states > like current commit offset will be a unique metric in Prometheus. It's hard > to use visualization tool such as Grafana to monitor them. > > My question is: Is it possible to add tags on Metric, instead of using > `.addGroup()`? > If not, will it be a new feature on Flink Metrics in the future? Since I am > not sure about how other reporters work, I am afraid that it is not a good > design to just fulfill the requirement on particular reporter. > > Please guide and thanks for your help. > > Best Regards, > Tony Wei > > [1]: > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/monitoring/metrics.html#scope > > <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/monitoring/metrics.html#scope> > [2]: > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/monitoring/metrics.html#list-of-all-variables > > <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/monitoring/metrics.html#list-of-all-variables>
