Hi, tl;dr At the moment (with a BIG disclaimer *) elastic scaling of spark streaming processes is not supported.
*Longer version.* I assume that you are talking about Spark Streaming as the discussion is about handing Kafka streaming data. Then you have two things to consider: the Streaming receivers and the Spark processing cluster. Currently, the receiving topology is static. One receiver is allocated with each DStream instantiated and it will use 1 core in the cluster. Once the StreamingContext is started, this topology cannot be changed, therefore the number of Kafka receivers is fixed for the lifetime of your DStream. What we do is to calculate the cluster capacity and use that as a fixed upper bound (with a margin) for the receiver throughput. There's work in progress to add a reactive model to the receiver, where backpressure can be applied to handle overload conditions. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7398 Once the data is received, it will be processed in a 'classical' Spark pipeline, so previous posts on spark resource scheduling might apply. Regarding metrics, the standard metrics subsystem of spark will report streaming job performance. Check the driver's metrics endpoint to peruse the available metrics: <driver>:<ui-port>/metrics/json -kr, Gerard. (*) Spark is a project that moves so fast that statements might be invalidated by new work every minute. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:21 AM, dgoldenberg <dgoldenberg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to understand if there are design patterns for autoscaling Spark > (add/remove slave machines to the cluster) based on the throughput. > > Assuming we can throttle Spark consumers, the respective Kafka topics we > stream data from would start growing. What are some of the ways to > generate > the metrics on the number of new messages and the rate they are piling up? > This perhaps is more of a Kafka question; I see a pretty sparse javadoc > with > the Metric interface and not much else... > > What are some of the ways to expand/contract the Spark cluster? Someone has > mentioned Mesos... > > I see some info on Spark metrics in the Spark monitoring guide > <https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/monitoring.html> . Do we want to > perhaps implement a custom sink that would help us autoscale up or down > based on the throughput? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Autoscaling-Spark-cluster-based-on-topic-sizes-rate-of-growth-in-Kafka-or-Spark-s-metrics-tp23062.html > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > >
