>For specific task, you can register your own metrics which resides per task.
Exactly, thats the problem. For something like a JDBC connection pool (or a Cassandra cluster/session), its not tied to any one task or component, it is usually shared amongst all tasks in the JVM. Reporting on those objects is difficult and clumsy when they are tied to a semi-unrelated, or random, component. >Or we would like to address / improve something? It would be nice to be able to register metrics outside of the task prepare lifecycle, perhaps at the "worker" level. Does that make sense? On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kevin, > > For specific task, you can register your own metrics which resides per > task. > But metrics doc on Storm is not kind enough to let users follow, so I > addressed this and submitted pull request. > https://github.com/HeartSaVioR/storm/blob/STORM-1724-1.x/docs/Metrics.md > > There're no custom worker metrics for users since Storm abstracts user's > logic into 'task' so normally users don't need to measure JVM level metrics > (except JMX metrics). But it would be possible to add if it's really great. > > Does current Storm work for you now? Or we would like to address / improve > something? > > Stephen and Harsha, > > Improve MetricsConsumer is an umbrella issue, and it contains the feature > 'blacklist > & whitelist of metrics <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-1700> > '. > For now it filters metrics by only metrics name, but adding filter targets > to component name, host, etc. are easy so I would like to see the needs > before making the change. > Do you think adding filter targets makes sense? Or we can just start with > metrics name filter? > > Thanks, > Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR) > > > 2016년 5월 3일 (화) 오전 2:18, Harsha <st...@harsha.io>님이 작성: > >> Jungtaek, >> Probably a filter config to whitelist and blacklist >> certain metrics. So that it will scale if there are too many workers and >> users can turn off certain metrics. >> >> Thanks, >> Harsha >> >> >> On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 06:19 AM, Stephen Powis wrote: >> >> Oooh I'd love this as well! I really dig the ease of the metric >> framework in storm and have all the metrics go thru one centralized >> config. But as the number of storm hosts and number of tasks grow, I've >> found that Graphite/Grafana has a hard time collecting up all the relevant >> metrics across a lot of wildcarded keys for things like hostnames and >> taskIds to properly display my graphs. >> >> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Kevin Conaway <kevin.a.cona...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> One thing I would like to see added (if not already present) is the >> ability to register metrics that are not tied to a component. >> >> As of now, the only non-component metrics are reported by the SystemBolt >> pseudo-component which feels like a work-around. It reports JVM level >> metrics like GC time, heap size and other things that aren't associated >> with a given component. >> >> It would be great if application developers could expose similar metrics >> like this for things like connection pools and other JVM wide objects that >> aren't unique to a specific component. >> >> I don't think this is possible now, is it? >> >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Let me start sharing my thought. :) >> >> 1. Need to enrich docs about metrics / stats. >> >> In fact, I couldn't see the fact - topology stats are sampled by default >> and sample rate is 0.05 - from the docs when I was newbie of Apache >> Storm. It made me misleading and made me saying "Why there're difference >> between the counts?". I also saw some mails from user@ about same question. >> If we include this to guide doc that would be better. >> >> And Metrics document page >> <http://storm.apache.org/releases/1.0.0/Metrics.html> seems not well >> written. I think it has appropriate headings but lacks contents on each >> heading. >> It should be addressed, and introducing some external metrics consumer >> plugins (like storm-graphite <https://github.com/verisign/storm-graphite> >> from Verisign) would be great, too. >> >> 2. Need to increase sample rate or (ideally) no sampling at all. >> >> Let's postpone considering performance hit at this time. >> Ideally, we expect precision of metrics gets better when we increase >> sample rate. It affects non-gauge kinds of metrics which are counter, >> and latency, and so on. >> >> Btw, I would like to hear about opinions on latency since I'm not an >> expert. >> Storm provides only average latency and it's indeed based on sample rate. >> Do we feel OK with this? If not how much having also percentiles can help >> us? >> >> Thanks, >> Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR) >> >> 2016년 4월 20일 (수) 오전 10:55, Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com>님이 작성: >> >> Hi Storm users, >> >> I'm Jungtaek Lim, committer and PMC member of Apache Storm. >> >> If you subscribed dev@ mailing list, you may have seen that recently >> we're addressing the metrics feature on Apache Storm. >> >> For now, improvements are going forward based on current metrics feature. >> >> - Improve (Topology) MetricsConsumer >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-1699> >> - Provide topology metrics in detail (metrics per each stream) >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-1719> >> - (WIP) Introduce Cluster Metrics Consumer >> >> As I don't maintain large cluster for myself, I really want to collect >> the any ideas for improving, any inconveniences, use cases of Metrics with >> community members, so we're on the right way to go forward. >> >> Let's talk! >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR) >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin Conaway >> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-conaway/7/107/580/ >> https://github.com/kevinconaway >> >> >> >> > -- Kevin Conaway http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-conaway/7/107/580/ https://github.com/kevinconaway
