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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-590:
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Github user mattf-horton commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/395
Recording here for posterity, in case anyone is interested: I asked on the
storm user list:
```
I’ve been unable to find this in the Storm documentation:
How does the Storm topology loader identify if a Bolt is a “windowing” bolt
and therefore
needs to be wrapped with WindowedBoltExecutor? Does it look at:
1. Whether the Bolt’s getComponentConfiguration() method presents some
or all of the
windowing-related configuration parameters, as BaseWindowedBolt does;
2. Or does it use reflection to determine if the Bolt implements
IWindowedBolt interface;
3. Or does the Bolt actually have to extend BaseWindowedBolt?
There are indications in the docs that it is #2, but I wasn’t able to
become certain.
Please clarify.
Thanks,
--Matt
```
and got confirmation that it is #2 only:
```
From: Arthur Maciejewicz <art...@signafire.com>
You must satisfy the IWindowedBolt and IComponent interfaces.
BaseWindowedBolt is there for
your convenience. When constructing the topology, there is a setBolt method
on TopologyBuilder
specifically for bolts satisfying the IWindowedBolt interface. It will be
wrapped with a
WindowedBoltExecutor by the TopologyBuilder for you. You can implement
windows yourself by
returning a HashMap from getComponentConfiguration in your custom bolt (as
long as they also
implement the IWindowedBolt interface).
```
> Enable Use of Event Time in Profiler
> ------------------------------------
>
> Key: METRON-590
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-590
> Project: Metron
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Nick Allen
> Assignee: Nick Allen
>
> There are at least two different times that are important to consider when
> handling the telemetry messages received by Metron.
> (1) Processing time is the time at which Metron processed the message.
> (2) Event time is the time at which the event actually occurred.
> If Metron is consuming live data and all is well, the processing and event
> times may remain close and consistent. When processing time differs from
> event time the data produced by the Profiler may be inaccurate. There are a
> few scenarios under which these times might differ greatly which would
> negatively impact the feature set produced by the Profiler.
> (1) When the system has experienced an outage, for example, a scheduled
> maintenance window. When restarted a high volume of messages will need to be
> processed by the Profiler. The output of the Profiler will indicate an
> increase in activity, although no change in activity actually occurred on the
> target network. This could happen whether the outage was Metron itself or an
> upstream system that feeds data to Metron.
> (2) If the user attempts to replay historical telemetry through the Profiler,
> the Profiler will attribute the activity to the time period in which it was
> processed. Obviously the activity should be attributed to the time period in
> which the raw telemetry events originated in.
> There are some scenarios when processing time might be preferred and other
> use cases where event time is preferred. The Profiler should be enhanced to
> allow it to produce profiles based on either processing time or event time.
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