Use practical utilities for Managed Service for Apache Flink

The following utilities can make using the Managed Service for Apache Flink service easier to use:

Snapshot manager

It's a best practice for Flink Applications to regularly initiate savepoints/snapshots to allow for more seamless failure recovery. Snapshot manager automates this task and offers the following benefits:

• takes a new snapshot of a running Managed Service for Apache Flink for Apache Flink Application

• gets a count of application snapshots

• checks if the count is more than the required number of snapshots

• deletes older snapshots that are older than the required number

For an example, see Snapshot manager.

Benchmarking

Managed Service for Apache Flink Flink Benchmarking Utility helps with capacity planning, integration testing, and benchmarking of Managed Service for Apache Flink for Apache Flink applications.

For an example, see Benchmarking