The plot thickens... I was able to rescale down... just not back up again!!!
root@flink-jobmanager-64bcfdf799-jhs7p:/opt/flink# bin/flink list -m localhost:8081 Waiting for response... ------------------ Running/Restarting Jobs ------------------- 07.02.2020 11:26:33 : ebc20a700c334f61ea03ecdf3d8939ca : Test topology (RUNNING) -------------------------------------------------------------- No scheduled jobs. root@flink-jobmanager-64bcfdf799-jhs7p:/opt/flink# bin/flink modify -m localhost:8081 ebc20a700c334f61ea03ecdf3d8939ca -p 1 Modify job ebc20a700c334f61ea03ecdf3d8939ca. Rescaled job ebc20a700c334f61ea03ecdf3d8939ca. Its new parallelism is 1. root@flink-jobmanager-64bcfdf799-jhs7p:/opt/flink# bin/flink modify -m localhost:8081 ebc20a700c334f61ea03ecdf3d8939ca -p 2 Modify job ebc20a700c334f61ea03ecdf3d8939ca. ------------------------------------------------------------ The program finished with the following exception: org.apache.flink.util.FlinkException: Could not rescale job ebc20a700c334f61ea03ecdf3d8939ca. at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.lambda$modify$10(CliFrontend.java:799) at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.runClusterAction(CliFrontend.java:985) at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.modify(CliFrontend.java:790) at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.parseParameters(CliFrontend.java:1068) at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.lambda$main$11(CliFrontend.java:1126) at org.apache.flink.runtime.security.NoOpSecurityContext.runSecured(NoOpSecurityContext.java:30) at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.main(CliFrontend.java:1126) Caused by: java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Suspend needs to happen atomically at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.encodeThrowable(CompletableFuture.java:273) at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.completeThrowable(CompletableFuture.java:280) at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniCompose(CompletableFuture.java:975) at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniCompose.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:940) at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$Completion.run(CompletableFuture.java:456) at org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcActor.handleRunAsync(AkkaRpcActor.java:392) at org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcActor.handleRpcMessage(AkkaRpcActor.java:185) at org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.FencedAkkaRpcActor.handleRpcMessage(FencedAkkaRpcActor.java:74) at org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.AkkaRpcActor.onReceive(AkkaRpcActor.java:147) at org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.akka.FencedAkkaRpcActor.onReceive(FencedAkkaRpcActor.java:40) at akka.actor.UntypedActor$$anonfun$receive$1.applyOrElse(UntypedActor.scala:165) at akka.actor.Actor.aroundReceive(Actor.scala:502) at akka.actor.Actor.aroundReceive$(Actor.scala:500) at akka.actor.UntypedActor.aroundReceive(UntypedActor.scala:95) at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:526) at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:495) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:257) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:224) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.exec(Mailbox.scala:234) at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:289) at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1056) at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1692) at java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:157) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Suspend needs to happen atomically at org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:195) at org.apache.flink.runtime.executiongraph.ExecutionGraph.suspend(ExecutionGraph.java:1172) at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.JobMaster.suspendExecutionGraph(JobMaster.java:1221) at org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.JobMaster.lambda$rescaleOperators$5(JobMaster.java:465) at java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniCompose(CompletableFuture.java:966) ... 20 more On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 11:40, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I am looking at the Flink Management REST API... and, as I see it, > there are two paths to rescale a running topology: > > 1. Stop the topology with a savepoint and then start it up with the new > savepoint; or > 2. Use the /jobs/:jobid/rescaling > <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.8/monitoring/rest_api.html#jobs-jobid-rescaling> > endpoint > > The first one seems to work just fine. > > The second one seems to just blow up every time I try to use it... I'll > get things like: > > > https://gist.github.com/stephenc/0bbc08391ddce5a781242900e4b33a5d#file-log-txt > > The above was for the topology > https://gist.github.com/stephenc/0bbc08391ddce5a781242900e4b33a5d#file-streamingjob-java > running with options: > > --source parallel > > Things are even worse with --source iterator as that has no checkpoint > state to recover from > > Right now I am trying to discover what preconditions are required to be > met in order to be able to safely call the Rescaling endpoint and actually > have it work... I should note that I currently have not managed to get it > to work at all!!! > > One of the things we are trying to do is add some automation to enable > scale-up / down as we see surges in processing load. We want to have an > automated system that can respond to those situations automatically for low > deltas and trigger an on-call engineer for persistent excess load. In that > regard I'd like to know what the automation should check to know whether it > can do rescaling via the dedicated end-point or if it should use the > reliable (but presumably slower) path of stop with savepoint & start from > savepoint. > > The > https://gist.github.com/stephenc/0bbc08391ddce5a781242900e4b33a5d#file-streamingjob-java > job I have been using is just a quick job to let me test the automation on > a local cluster. It is designed to output a strictly increasing sequence of > numbers without missing any... optionally double them and then print them > out. The different sources are me experimenting with different types of > operator to see what kinds of topology can work with the rescaling end-point > > Thanks in advance >