Thank you, @David Anderson and @Fuyao Li. This answered my question and
cleared my confusions.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:08 AM David Anderson
wrote:
> Prometheus is a metrics system; you can use Flink's Prometheus metrics
> reporter to send metrics to Prometheus.
>
> Grafana can also be connected to influxdb, and to databases like mysql and
> postgresql, for which sinks are available.
>
> And the Elasticsearch sink can be used to create visualizations with
> Kibana.
>
> I'm sure there are other solutions as well, but these are some of the
> popular ones.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 5:15 PM Xiong Qiang
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am new to Flink, so forgive me if it is a naive question.
>>
>> The context is:
>> We have a data streaming coming in, and we will use Flink applications to
>> do the processing or aggregations. After the processing or aggregation, we
>> need some approaches to visualize the results, to either build a dashboard
>> or setup alerts, for example, using Prometheus and Grafana.
>> However, after reading the documents (
>> https://flink.apache.org/flink-architecture.html and more links) and
>> examples (
>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12/try-flink/datastream_api.html)
>> (
>> https://github.com/ververica/flink-training/blob/master/long-ride-alerts/src/solution/java/org/apache/flink/training/solutions/longrides/LongRidesSolution.java)
>> , *I am still not able to close the gap between Flink and a
>> monitoring/dashboard tool, e.g. Prometheus/Grafana. *
>>
>> *The question is:*
>> *How are processing results connected/sinked from Flink to
>> Prometheus/Grafana? *for example, in the fraud detection example, how is
>> the account id = 3, send to Prometheus and Grafana, so that I have a
>> dashboard showing there is one suspected account? In the taxi long rides
>> example, how do I send the count of long rides from Flink to
>> Prometheus/Grafana?
>>
>> I understand there are sinks (
>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12/dev/connectors/).
>> However, I didn't see sinks for Prometheus.
>>
>> Hope I made my question clear.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
