Robert Metzger created FLINK-21884:
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Summary: Reduce TaskManager failure detection time
Key: FLINK-21884
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-21884
Project: Flink
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Runtime / Coordination
Reporter: Robert Metzger
Fix For: 1.14.0
Attachments: image-2021-03-19-20-10-40-324.png
In Flink 1.13 (and older versions), TaskManager failures stall the processing
for a significant amount of time, even though the system gets indications for
the failure almost immediately through network connection losses.
This is due to a high (default) heartbeat timeout of 50 seconds [1] to
accommodate for GC pauses, transient network disruptions or generally slow
environments (otherwise, we would unregister a healthy TaskManager).
Such a high timeout can lead to disruptions in the processing (no processing
for certain periods, high latencies, buildup of consumer lag etc.). In Reactive
Mode (FLINK-10407), the issue surfaces on scale-down events, where the loss of
a TaskManager is immediately visible in the logs, but the job is stuck in
"FAILING" for quite a while until the TaskManger is really deregistered. (Note
that this issue is not that critical in a autoscaling setup, because Flink can
control the scale-down events and trigger them proactively)
On this metrics dashboard, one can see that the job has significant throughput
drops / consumer lags during scale down (and also CPU usage spikes on
processing the queued events, leading to incorrect scale up events again).
!image-2021-03-19-20-10-40-324.png!
One idea to solve this problem is to:
- Score TaskManagers based on certain signals (# exceptions reported, exception
types (connection losses, akka failures), failure frequencies, ...) and
blacklist them accordingly.
[1]
https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/docs/deployment/config/#heartbeat-timeout
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