Hi Averell, such a feature is currently not supported by Flink. The scheduling works by starting all sources at the same time. Depending whether it is a batch or streaming job, you either start deploying consumers once producers have produced some results or right away.
Cheers, Till On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:16 AM Averell <lvhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have 2 file sources, which I want to start reading them in a specified > order (e.g: source2 should only start 5 minutes after source1 has started). > I could not find any Flink document mentioning this capability, and I also > tried to search the mailing list, without any success. > However, on Flink GUI there's a Timeline tab which shows start-time of each > operator. And this gives me a hope that there is something that can help > with my requirement. > ( > http://localhost:20888/proxy/application_1537700592704_0026/#/jobs/0360094da093e36299273329f9dec19d/timeline > ) > > Could you please help give some help? > > Thanks and best regards, > Averell > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/ >