Yup, your understand is correct—that was the analogy I was trying to make!
> On Jul 26, 2021, at 7:57 PM, Yun Tang <myas...@live.com> wrote: > > Hi Mason, > > In rocksDB, one state is corresponding to a column family and we could > aggregate all RocksDB native metrics per column family. If my understanding > is right, are you hoping that all state latency metrics for a particular > state could be aggregated per state level? > > > Best > Yun Tang > From: Mason Chen <mas.chen6...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 4:24 > To: user@flink.apache.org <user@flink.apache.org> > Subject: as-variable configuration for state ac > > We have been using the state backend latency tracking metrics from Flink > 1.13. To make metrics aggregation easier, could there be a config to expose > something like `state.backend.rocksdb.metrics.column-family-as-variable` that > rocksdb provides to do aggregation across column families. > > In this case, it would be the various components of state. > > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.13/docs/deployment/config/#state-backend-rocksdb-metrics-column-family-as-variable > > <https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.13/docs/deployment/config/#state-backend-rocksdb-metrics-column-family-as-variable>