The table below lists parameters that you can set to configure bookies. All configuration takes place in the bk_server.conf file in the bookkeeper-server/conf directory of your BookKeeper installation.

Server parameters

ParameterDescriptionDefault
bookiePort

The port that the bookie server listens on.

3181
allowMultipleDirsUnderSameDiskPartition

Configure the bookie to allow/disallow multiple ledger/index/journal directories in the same filesystem disk partition

listeningInterface

The network interface that the bookie should listen on. If not set, the bookie will listen on all interfaces.

eth0
advertisedAddress

Configure a specific hostname or IP address that the bookie should use to advertise itself to clients. If not set, bookie will advertised its own IP address or hostname, depending on the listeningInterface and useHostNameAsBookieID settings.

eth0
allowLoopback

Whether the bookie is allowed to use a loopback interface as its primary interface (the interface it uses to establish its identity). By default, loopback interfaces are not allowed as the primary interface.

Using a loopback interface as the primary interface usually indicates a configuration error. It’s fairly common in some VPS setups, for example, to not configure a hostname or to have the hostname resolve to 127.0.0.1. If this is the case, then all bookies in the cluster will establish their identities as 127.0.0.1:3181, and only one will be able to join the cluster. For VPSs configured like this, you should explicitly set the listening interface.

false
useHostNameAsBookieID

Whether the bookie should use its hostname to register with the ZooKeeper coordination service. When false, the bookie will use its IP address for the registration.

false
useShortHostName

Whether the bookie should use short hostname or FQDN hostname for registration and ledger metadata when useHostNameAsBookieID is enabled.

false
allowEphemeralPorts

Whether the bookie is allowed to use an ephemeral port (port 0) as its server port. By default, an ephemeral port is not allowed. Using an ephemeral port as the service port usually indicates a configuration error. However, in unit tests, using an ephemeral port will address port conflict problems and allow running tests in parallel.

false
enableLocalTransport

Whether allow the bookie to listen for BookKeeper clients executed on the local JVM.

false
disableServerSocketBind

Whether allow the bookie to disable bind on network interfaces, this bookie will be available only to BookKeeper clients executed on the local JVM.

false
bookieDeathWatchInterval

Interval to watch whether bookie is dead or not, in milliseconds.

1000
extraServerComponents

Configure a list of extra server components to enable and load on a bookie server. This provides a plugin mechanism to run extra server components along with a bookie server.

ignoreExtraServerComponentsStartupFailures

Whether the bookie should ignore startup failures on loading server components specified by extraServerComponents.

false

Worker thread settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
numAddWorkerThreads

The number of threads that handle write requests. if zero, writes are handled by Netty threads directly.

1
numReadWorkerThreads

The number of threads that handle read requests. If zero, reads are handled by Netty threads directly.

8
numLongPollWorkerThreads

The number of threads that handle long poll requests. If zero, long poll requests are handled by Netty threads directly.

0
numJournalCallbackThreads

The number of threads that handle journal callbacks. If zero, journal callbacks are executed directly on force write threads.

1
numHighPriorityWorkerThreads

The number of threads that should be used for high priority requests (i.e. recovery reads and adds, and fencing). If zero, reads are handled by Netty threads directly.

8
maxPendingAddRequestsPerThread

If read worker threads are enabled, limit the number of pending requests, to avoid the executor queue to grow indefinitely. If zero or negative, the number of pending requests is unlimited.

10000
maxPendingReadRequestsPerThread

If add worker threads are enabled, limit the number of pending requests, to avoid the executor queue to grow indefinitely. If zero or negative, the number of pending requests is unlimited.

10000
enableBusyWait

Option to enable busy-wait settings. Default is false. WARNING: This option will enable spin-waiting on executors and IO threads in order to reduce latency during context switches. The spinning will consume 100% CPU even when bookie is not doing any work. It is recommended to reduce the number of threads in the main workers pool and Netty event loop to only have few CPU cores busy.

Long poll settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
requestTimerTickDurationMs

The tick duration for long poll request timer, in milliseconds. See HashedWheelTimer for more details.

10
requestTimerNumTicks

The number of ticks per wheel for long poll request timer. See HashedWheelTimer for more details.

1024

Read-only mode support

ParameterDescriptionDefault
readOnlyModeEnabled

If all ledger directories configured are full, then support only read requests for clients. If “readOnlyModeEnabled=true” then on all ledger disks full, bookie will be converted to read-only mode and serve only read requests. Otherwise the bookie will be shutdown. By default this will be disabled.

true
forceReadOnlyBookie

Whether the bookie is force started in read only mode or not.

false
persistBookieStatusEnabled

Persist the bookie status locally on the disks. So the bookies can keep their status upon restarts.

false

Netty server settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
serverTcpNoDelay

This settings is used to enabled/disabled Nagle’s algorithm, which is a means of improving the efficiency of TCP/IP networks by reducing the number of packets that need to be sent over the network.

If you are sending many small messages, such that more than one can fit in a single IP packet, setting server.tcpnodelay to false to enable Nagle algorithm can provide better performance.

true
serverSockKeepalive

This setting is used to send keep-alive messages on connection-oriented sockets.

true
serverTcpLinger

The socket linger timeout on close. When enabled, a close or shutdown will not return until all queued messages for the socket have been successfully sent or the linger timeout has been reached. Otherwise, the call returns immediately and the closing is done in the background.

0
byteBufAllocatorSizeInitial

The Recv ByteBuf allocator initial buf size.

65536
byteBufAllocatorSizeMin

The Recv ByteBuf allocator min buf size.

65536
byteBufAllocatorSizeMax

The Recv ByteBuf allocator max buf size.

1048576
nettyMaxFrameSizeBytes

The maximum netty frame size in bytes. Any message received larger than this will be rejected, so when the client-side attempt to send more than the default size bytes, it should set up the corresponding parameter setNettyMaxFrameSizeBytes(int maxSize), pay attention to the parameter should be less than the value of server-side.

5242880

Http server settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
httpServerEnabled

The flag enables/disables starting the admin http server.

false
httpServerPort

The http server port to listen on if httpServerEnabled is set to true.

8080

Security settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
bookieAuthProviderFactoryClass

The bookie authentication provider factory class name. If this is null, no authentication will take place.

permittedStartupUsers

The list of users are permitted to run the bookie process. Any users can run the bookie process if it is not set.

Example settings - “permittedStartupUsers=user1,user2,user3”

TLS settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
tslProvider

TLS Provider (JDK or OpenSSL)

OpenSSL
tlsProviderFactoryClass

The path to the class that provides security.

org.apache.bookkeeper.tls.TLSContextFactory
tlsClientAuthentication

Type of security used by server.

true
tlsKeyStoreType

Bookie Keystore type.

JKS
tlsKeyStore

Bookie Keystore location (path).

tlsKeyStore

Bookie Keystore location (path).

tlsKeyStorePasswordPath

Bookie Keystore password path, if the keystore is protected by a password.

tlsTrustStoreType

Bookie Truststore type.

tlsTrustStore

Bookie Truststore location (path).

tlsTrustStorePasswordPath

Bookie Truststore password path, if the truststore is protected by a password.

Journal settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
journalDirectories

The directories to which Bookkeeper outputs its write-ahead log (WAL). Could define multi directories to store write head logs, separated by ‘,’. For example: journalDirectories=/tmp/bk-journal1,/tmp/bk-journal2 If journalDirectories is set, bookies will skip journalDirectory and use this setting directory.

/tmp/bk-journal
journalDirectory

@Deprecated since 4.5.0, in favor of using journalDirectories.

The directory to which Bookkeeper outputs its write-ahead log (WAL).

/tmp/bk-txn
journalFormatVersionToWrite

The journal format version to write. Available formats are 1-5: 1: no header 2: a header section was added 3: ledger key was introduced 4: fencing key was introduced 5: expanding header to 512 and padding writes to align sector size configured by journalAlignmentSize 6: persisting explicitLac is introduced

By default, it is 6. If you’d like to disable persisting ExplicitLac, you can set this config to < 6 and also fileInfoFormatVersionToWrite should be set to 0. If there is mismatch then the serverconfig is considered invalid. You can disable padding-writes by setting journal version back to 4. This feature is available in 4.5.0 and onward versions.

6
journalMaxSizeMB

Max file size of journal file, in mega bytes. A new journal file will be created when the old one reaches the file size limitation.

2048
journalMaxBackups

Max number of old journal file to kept. Keep a number of old journal files would help data recovery in specia case.

5
journalPreAllocSizeMB

How much space should we pre-allocate at a time in the journal.

16
journalWriteBufferSizeKB

Size of the write buffers used for the journal.

64
journalRemoveFromPageCache

Should we remove pages from page cache after force write

true
journalSyncData

Should the data be fsynced on journal before acknowledgment. By default, data sync is enabled to guarantee durability of writes. Beware - when disabling data sync in the bookie journal might improve the bookie write performance, it will also introduce the possibility of data loss. With no fsync, the journal entries are written in the OS page cache but not flushed to disk. In case of power failure, the affected bookie might lose the unflushed data. If the ledger is replicated to multiple bookies, the chances of data loss are reduced though still present.

true
journalAdaptiveGroupWrites

Should we group journal force writes, which optimize group commit for higher throughput.

true
journalMaxGroupWaitMSec

Maximum latency to impose on a journal write to achieve grouping.

2
journalBufferedWritesThreshold

Maximum writes to buffer to achieve grouping.

524288
journalFlushWhenQueueEmpty

If we should flush the journal when journal queue is empty.

false
journalAlignmentSize

All the journal writes and commits should be aligned to given size. If not, zeros will be padded to align to given size.

512
journalBufferedEntriesThreshold

Maximum entries to buffer to impose on a journal write to achieve grouping.

0
journalFlushWhenQueueEmpty

If we should flush the journal when journal queue is empty.

false
journalQueueSize

Set the size of the journal queue.

10000

Ledger storage settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
ledgerStorageClass

Ledger storage implementation class

Options:

  • org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.InterleavedLedgerStorage
  • org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.SortedLedgerStorage
  • org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.storage.ldb.DbLedgerStorage
org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.SortedLedgerStorage
sortedLedgerStorageEnabled

@Deprecated in favor of using ledgerStorageClass

Whether sorted-ledger storage enabled (default true)

true
ledgerDirectories

The directory to which Bookkeeper outputs ledger snapshots. You can define multiple directories to store snapshots separated by a comma, for example /tmp/data-dir1,/tmp/data-dir2.

/tmp/bk-data
indexDirectories

The directories in which index files are stored. If not specified, the value of ledgerDirectories will be used.

/tmp/bk-data
minUsableSizeForIndexFileCreation

Minimum safe usable size to be available in index directory for bookie to create index file while replaying journal at the time of bookie start in readonly mode (in bytes)

1073741824
minUsableSizeForEntryLogCreation

Minimum safe usable size to be available in ledger directory for bookie to create entry log files (in bytes). This parameter allows creating entry log files when there are enough disk spaces, even when the bookie is running at readonly mode because of the disk usage is exceeding diskUsageThreshold. Because compaction, journal replays can still write data to disks when a bookie is readonly.

1.2 logSizeLimit
minUsableSizeForHighPriorityWrites

Minimum safe usable size to be available in ledger directory for bookie to accept high priority writes even it is in readonly mode.

1.2 logSizeLimit
flushInterval

When entryLogPerLedgerEnabled is enabled, checkpoint doesn’t happens when a new active entrylog is created / previous one is rolled over. Instead SyncThread checkpoints periodically with ‘flushInterval’ delay (in milliseconds) in between executions. Checkpoint flushes both ledger entryLogs and ledger index pages to disk. Flushing entrylog and index files will introduce much random disk I/O. If separating journal dir and ledger dirs each on different devices, flushing would not affect performance. But if putting journal dir and ledger dirs on same device, performance degrade significantly on too frequent flushing. You can consider increment flush interval to get better performance, but you need to pay more time on bookie server restart after failure. This config is used only when entryLogPerLedgerEnabled is enabled.

10000
allowStorageExpansion

Allow the expansion of bookie storage capacity. Newly added ledger and index directories must be empty.

false

Entry log settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
logSizeLimit

Max file size of entry logger, in bytes. A new entry log file will be created when the old one reaches the file size limitation.

2147483648
entryLogFilePreallocationEnabled

Enable/Disable entry logger preallocation

true
flushEntrylogBytes

Entry log flush interval, in bytes. Setting this to 0 or less disables this feature and makes flush happen on log rotation. Flushing in smaller chunks but more frequently reduces spikes in disk I/O. Flushing too frequently may negatively affect performance.

0
readBufferSizeBytes

The capacity allocated for BufferedReadChannels, in bytes.

512
writeBufferSizeBytes

The number of bytes used as capacity for the write buffer.

65536
entryLogPerLedgerEnabled

Specifies if entryLog per ledger is enabled/disabled. If it is enabled, then there would be a active entrylog for each ledger. It would be ideal to enable this feature if the underlying storage device has multiple DiskPartitions or SSD and if in a given moment, entries of fewer number of active ledgers are written to the bookie.

entrylogMapAccessExpiryTimeInSeconds

config specifying if the entrylog per ledger is enabled, then the amount of time EntryLogManagerForEntryLogPerLedger should wait for closing the entrylog file after the last addEntry call for that ledger, if explicit writeclose for that ledger is not received.

300
maximumNumberOfActiveEntryLogs

in entryLogPerLedger feature, this specifies the maximum number of entrylogs that can be active at a given point in time. If there are more number of active entryLogs then the maximumNumberOfActiveEntryLogs then the entrylog will be evicted from the cache.

500
entryLogPerLedgerCounterLimitsMultFactor

in EntryLogManagerForEntryLogPerLedger, this config value specifies the metrics cache size limits in multiples of entrylogMap cache size limits.

10

Entry log compaction settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
compactionRate

The rate at which compaction will read entries. The unit is adds per second.

1000
minorCompactionThreshold

Threshold of minor compaction. For those entry log files whose remaining size percentage reaches below this threshold will be compacted in a minor compaction. If it is set to less than zero, the minor compaction is disabled.

0.2
minorCompactionInterval

Interval to run minor compaction, in seconds. If it is set to less than zero, the minor compaction is disabled.

3600
compactionMaxOutstandingRequests

Set the maximum number of entries which can be compacted without flushing. When compacting, the entries are written to the entrylog and the new offsets are cached in memory. Once the entrylog is flushed the index is updated with the new offsets. This parameter controls the number of entries added to the entrylog before a flush is forced. A higher value for this parameter means more memory will be used for offsets. Each offset consists of 3 longs. This parameter should not be modified unless you know what you’re doing.

100000
majorCompactionThreshold

Threshold of major compaction. For those entry log files whose remaining size percentage reaches below this threshold will be compacted in a major compaction. Those entry log files whose remaining size percentage is still higher than the threshold will never be compacted. If it is set to less than zero, the minor compaction is disabled.

0.8
majorCompactionInterval

Interval to run major compaction, in seconds. If it is set to less than zero, the major compaction is disabled.

86400
isThrottleByBytes

Throttle compaction by bytes or by entries.

false
compactionRateByEntries

Set the rate at which compaction will read entries. The unit is adds per second.

1000
compactionRateByBytes

Set the rate at which compaction will read entries. The unit is bytes added per second.

1000000
useTransactionalCompaction

Flag to enable/disable transactional compaction. If it is set to true, it will use transactional compaction, which uses new entry log files to store entries after compaction; otherwise, it will use normal compaction, which shares same entry log file with normal add operations.

false

Garbage collection settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
gcWaitTime

How long the interval to trigger next garbage collection, in milliseconds. Since garbage collection is running in background, too frequent gc will heart performance. It is better to give a higher number of gc interval if there is enough disk capacity.

1000
gcOverreplicatedLedgerWaitTime

How long the interval to trigger next garbage collection of overreplicated ledgers, in milliseconds. This should not be run very frequently since we read the metadata for all the ledgers on the bookie from zk.

86400000
isForceGCAllowWhenNoSpace

Whether force compaction is allowed when the disk is full or almost full. Forcing GC may get some space back, but may also fill up disk space more quickly. This is because new log files are created before GC, while old garbage log files are deleted after GC.

false
verifyMetadataOnGC

Whether the bookie should double check if a ledger exists in metadata service prior to gc.

false

Disk utilization

ParameterDescriptionDefault
diskUsageThreshold

For each ledger dir, maximum disk space which can be used. Default is 0.95f. i.e. 95% of disk can be used at most after which nothing will be written to that partition. If all ledger dir partions are full, then bookie will turn to readonly mode if ‘readOnlyModeEnabled=true’ is set, else it will shutdown. Valid values should be in between 0 and 1 (exclusive).

0.95
diskUsageWarnThreshold

The disk free space low water mark threshold. Disk is considered full when usage threshold is exceeded. Disk returns back to non-full state when usage is below low water mark threshold. This prevents it from going back and forth between these states frequently when concurrent writes and compaction are happening. This also prevent bookie from switching frequently between read-only and read-writes states in the same cases.

0.95
diskUsageLwmThreshold

Set the disk free space low water mark threshold. Disk is considered full when usage threshold is exceeded. Disk returns back to non-full state when usage is below low water mark threshold. This prevents it from going back and forth between these states frequently when concurrent writes and compaction are happening. This also prevent bookie from switching frequently between read-only and read-writes states in the same cases.

0.9
diskCheckInterval

Disk check interval in milliseconds. Interval to check the ledger dirs usage.

10000

Sorted Ledger Storage Settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
skipListSizeLimit

The skip list data size limitation (default 64MB) in EntryMemTable

67108864
skipListArenaChunkSize

The number of bytes we should use as chunk allocation for org.apache.bookkeeper.bookie.SkipListArena

4194304
skipListArenaMaxAllocSize

The max size we should allocate from the skiplist arena. Allocations larger than this should be allocated directly by the VM to avoid fragmentation.

131072
openFileLimit

Max number of ledger index files could be opened in bookie server. If number of ledger index files reaches this limitation, bookie server started to swap some ledgers from memory to disk. Too frequent swap will affect performance. You can tune this number to gain performance according your requirements.

20000
fileInfoCacheInitialCapacity

The minimum total size of the internal file info cache table. Providing a large enough estimate at construction time avoids the need for expensive resizing operations later, but setting this value unnecessarily high wastes memory. The default value is 1/4 of openFileLimit if openFileLimit is positive, otherwise it is 64.

fileInfoMaxIdleTime

The max idle time allowed for an open file info existed in the file info cache. If the file info is idle for a long time, exceed the given time period. The file info will be evicted and closed. If the value is zero or negative, the file info is evicted only when opened files reached openFileLimit.

0
fileInfoFormatVersionToWrite

The fileinfo format version to write. Available formats are 0-1: 0: Initial version 1: persisting explicitLac is introduced

By default, it is 1. If you’d like to disable persisting ExplicitLac, you can set this config to 0 and also journalFormatVersionToWrite should be set to < 6. If there is mismatch then the serverconfig is considered invalid.

1
pageSize

Size of a index page in ledger cache, in bytes. A larger index page can improve performance writing page to disk, which is efficent when you have small number of ledgers and these ledgers have similar number of entries. If you have large number of ledgers and each ledger has fewer entries, smaller index page would improve memory usage.

8192
pageLimit

How many index pages provided in ledger cache. If number of index pages reaches this limitation, bookie server starts to swap some ledgers from memory to disk. You can increment this value when you found swap became more frequent. But make sure pageLimit*pageSize should not more than JVM max memory limitation, otherwise you would got OutOfMemoryException. In general, incrementing pageLimit, using smaller index page would gain bettern performance in lager number of ledgers with fewer entries case. If pageLimit is -1, bookie server will use 1/3 of JVM memory to compute the limitation of number of index pages.

-1
numOfMemtableFlushThreads

When entryLogPerLedger is enabled SortedLedgerStorage flushes entries from memTable using OrderedExecutor having numOfMemtableFlushThreads number of threads.

8

DB Ledger Storage Settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
dbStorage_writeCacheMaxSizeMb

Size of write cache. Memory is allocated from JVM direct memory. Write cache is used for buffer entries before flushing into the entry log. For good performance, it should be big enough to hold a substantial amount of entries in the flush interval.

25% of the available direct memory
dbStorage_readAheadCacheMaxSizeMb

Size of read cache. Memory is allocated from JVM direct memory. The read cache is pre-filled doing read-ahead whenever a cache miss happens.

25% of the available direct memroy
dbStorage_readAheadCacheBatchSize

How many entries to pre-fill in cache after a read cache miss

100
dbStorage_rocksDB_blockSize

Size of RocksDB block-cache. RocksDB is used for storing ledger indexes. For best performance, this cache should be big enough to hold a significant portion of the index database which can reach ~2GB in some cases.

268435456
dbStorage_rocksDB_writeBufferSizeMB

Size of RocksDB write buffer. RocksDB is used for storing ledger indexes.

64
dbStorage_rocksDB_sstSizeInMB

Size of RocksDB sst file size in MB. RocksDB is used for storing ledger indexes.

64
dbStorage_rocksDB_blockSize65536
dbStorage_rocksDB_bloomFilterBitsPerKey10
dbStorage_rocksDB_numLevels-1
dbStorage_rocksDB_numFilesInLevel010
dbStorage_rocksDB_maxSizeInLevel1MB256

Metadata Service Settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
metadataServiceUri

metadata service uri that bookkeeper is used for loading corresponding metadata driver and resolving its metadata service location.

zk+hierarchical://localhost:2181/ledgers
ledgerManagerFactoryClass

@Deprecated in favor of using metadataServiceUri

The ledger manager factory class, which defines how ledgers are stored, managed, and garbage collected. See the Ledger Manager guide for more details.

hierarchical
allowShadedLedgerManagerFactoryClass

Sometimes the bookkeeper server classes are shaded. The ledger manager factory classes might be relocated to be under other packages. This would fail the clients using shaded factory classes since the factory classes are stored in cookies and used for verification. Users can enable this flag to allow using shaded ledger manager factory classes to connect to a bookkeeper cluster.

false
shadedLedgerManagerFactoryClassPrefix

The shaded ledger manager factory prefix. This is used when allowShadedLedgerManagerFactoryClass is set to true.

dlshade.

ZooKeeper Metadata Service Settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
zkLedgersRootPath

@Deprecated in favor of using metadataServiceUri

Root Zookeeper path to store ledger metadata. This parameter is used by zookeeper-based ledger manager as a root znode to store all ledgers.

/ledgers
zkServers

@Deprecated in favor of using metadataServiceUri

A list of one of more servers on which Zookeeper is running. The server list can be comma separated values, for example zkServers=zk1:2181,zk2:2181,zk3:2181.

localhost:2181
zkTimeout

ZooKeeper client session timeout in milliseconds. Bookie server will exit if it received SESSION_EXPIRED because it was partitioned off from ZooKeeper for more than the session timeout JVM garbage collection, disk I/O will cause SESSION_EXPIRED. Increment this value could help avoiding this issue.

10000
zkRetryBackoffStartMs

The Zookeeper client backoff retry start time in millis.

1000
zkRetryBackoffMaxMs

The Zookeeper client backoff retry max time in millis.

10000
zkRequestRateLimit

The Zookeeper request limit. It is only enabled when setting a postivie value.

0
zkEnableSecurity

Set ACLs on every node written on ZooKeeper, this way only allowed users will be able to read and write BookKeeper metadata stored on ZooKeeper. In order to make ACLs work you need to setup ZooKeeper JAAS authentication all the bookies and Client need to share the same user, and this is usually done using Kerberos authentication. See ZooKeeper documentation

false

Statistics

ParameterDescriptionDefault
enableStatistics

Whether statistics are enabled for the bookie.

true
statsProviderClass

Stats provider class. Options:

  • Prometheus : org.apache.bookkeeper.stats.prometheus.PrometheusMetricsProvider
  • Codahale : org.apache.bookkeeper.stats.codahale.CodahaleMetricsProvider
  • Twitter Finagle : org.apache.bookkeeper.stats.twitter.finagle.FinagleStatsProvider
  • Twitter Ostrich : org.apache.bookkeeper.stats.twitter.ostrich.OstrichProvider
  • Twitter Science : org.apache.bookkeeper.stats.twitter.science.TwitterStatsProvider
org.apache.bookkeeper.stats.prometheus.PrometheusMetricsProvider
limitStatsLogging

option to limit stats logging

false

Prometheus Metrics Provider Settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
prometheusStatsHttpAddress

default bind address for Prometheus metrics exporter

0.0.0.0
prometheusStatsHttpPort

default port for prometheus metrics exporter

8000
prometheusStatsLatencyRolloverSeconds

latency stats rollover interval, in seconds

60

Codahale Metrics Provider Settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
codahaleStatsPrefix

metric name prefix, default is empty.

codahaleStatsOutputFrequencySeconds

the frequency that stats reporters report stats, in seconds.

60
codahaleStatsGraphiteEndpoint

the graphite endpoint for reporting stats. see graphite reporter for more details.

null
codahaleStatsCSVEndpoint

the directory for reporting stats in csv format. see csv reporter for more details.

null
codahaleStatsSlf4jEndpoint

the slf4j endpoint for reporting stats. see slf4j reporter for more details.

null
codahaleStatsJmxEndpoint

the jmx endpoint for reporting stats. see jmx reporter for more details.

Twitter Ostrich Metrics Provider

ParameterDescriptionDefault
statsExport

Flag to control whether to expose ostrich metrics via a http endpoint configured by statsHttpPort.

false
statsHttpPort

The http port of exposing ostrich stats if statsExport is set to true

9002

Twitter Science Metrics Provider

ParameterDescriptionDefault
statsExport

Flag to control whether to expose metrics via a http endpoint configured by statsHttpPort.

false
statsHttpPort

The http port of exposing stats if statsExport is set to true

9002

AutoRecovery general settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
autoRecoveryDaemonEnabled

Whether the bookie itself can start auto-recovery service also or not.

digestType

The default digest type used for opening ledgers.

CRC32
passwd

The default password used for opening ledgers. Default value is empty string.

enableDigestTypeAutodetection

The flag to enable/disable digest type auto-detection. If it is enabled, the bookkeeper client will ignore the provided digest type provided at digestType and the provided passwd provided at passwd.

true

AutoRecovery placement settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
ensemblePlacementPolicy

The ensemble placement policy used for finding bookie for re-replicating entries.

Options:

  • org.apache.bookkeeper.client.RackawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy
  • org.apache.bookkeeper.client.RegionAwareEnsemblePlacementPolicy
org.apache.bookkeeper.client.RackawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy
reppDnsResolverClass

The DNS resolver class used for resolving network locations for bookies. The setting is used when using either RackawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy and RegionAwareEnsemblePlacementPolicy.

org.apache.bookkeeper.net.ScriptBasedMapping
networkTopologyScriptFileName

The bash script used by ScriptBasedMapping DNS resolver for resolving bookies’ network locations.

networkTopologyScriptNumberArgs

The max number of args used in the script provided at networkTopologyScriptFileName.

minNumRacksPerWriteQuorum

minimum number of racks per write quorum. RackawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy will try to get bookies from atleast ‘minNumRacksPerWriteQuorum’ racks for a writeQuorum.

enforceMinNumRacksPerWriteQuorum

‘enforceMinNumRacksPerWriteQuorum’ enforces RackawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy to pick bookies from ‘minNumRacksPerWriteQuorum’ racks for a writeQuorum. If it cann’t find bookie then it would throw BKNotEnoughBookiesException instead of picking random one.

ignoreLocalNodeInPlacementPolicy

‘ignoreLocalNodeInPlacementPolicy’ specifies whether to ignore localnode in the internal logic of placement policy. If it is not possible or useful to use Bookkeeper client node’s (or AutoReplicator) rack/region info. for placement policy then it is better to ignore localnode instead of false alarming with log lines and metrics.

enforceMinNumFaultDomainsForWrite

‘enforceMinNumFaultDomainsForWrite’ enforces EnsemblePlacementPolicy to check if a write has made it to bookies in ‘minNumRacksPerWriteQuorum’ number of fault domains, before acknowledging the write back.

minNumZonesPerWriteQuorum

minimum number of zones per write quorum in ZoneawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy. ZoneawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy would get bookies from atleast ‘minNumZonesPerWriteQuorum’ racks for a writeQuorum.

2
desiredNumZonesPerWriteQuorum

desired number of zones per write quorum in ZoneawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy. ZoneawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy will try to get bookies from ‘desiredNumZonesPerWriteQuorum’ zones for a writeQuorum.

3
enforceStrictZoneawarePlacement

in ZoneawareEnsemblePlacementPolicy if strict placement is enabled then minZones/desiredZones in writeQuorum would be maintained otherwise it will pick nodes randomly.

true

AutoRecovery auditor settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
auditorPeriodicBookieCheckInterval

The time interval between auditor bookie checks, in seconds. The auditor bookie check checks ledger metadata to see which bookies should contain entries for each ledger. If a bookie that should contain entries is unavailable, then the ledger containing that entry is marked for recovery. Setting this to 0 disables the periodic check. Bookie checks will still run when a bookie fails. The default is once per day.

86400
auditorPeriodicCheckInterval

The time interval, in seconds, at which the auditor will check all ledgers in the cluster. By default this runs once a week.

Set this to 0 to disable the periodic check completely. Note that periodic checking will put extra load on the cluster, so it should not be run more frequently than once a day.

604800
auditorPeriodicPlacementPolicyCheckInterval

The time interval between auditor placement policy checks, in seconds. The auditor placement policy check validates if the ensemble of segments of all the closed ledgers is adhering to the placement policy. It is just monitoring scrutiny but doesn’t take any corrective measure other than logging error and reporting metrics. By default it is disabled.

0
auditorLedgerVerificationPercentage

The percentage of a ledger (fragment)’s entries will be verified before claiming a fragment as missing. If it is 0, it only verifies the first and last entries of a given fragment.

0
lostBookieRecoveryDelay

How long to wait, in seconds, before starting autorecovery of a lost bookie.

0
storeSystemTimeAsLedgerUnderreplicatedMarkTime

Enable the Auditor to use system time as underreplicated ledger mark time. If this is enabled, Auditor will write a ctime field into the underreplicated ledger znode.

true
underreplicatedLedgerRecoveryGracePeriod

The grace period (in seconds) for underreplicated ledgers recovery. If ledger is marked underreplicated for more than this period then it will be reported by placementPolicyCheck in Auditor. Setting this to 0 will disable this check.

0
auditorReplicasCheckInterval

Sets the regularity/interval at which the auditor will run a replicas check of all ledgers, which are closed. This should not be run very often since it validates availability of replicas of all ledgers by querying bookies. Setting this to 0 will completely disable the periodic replicas check. By default it is disabled.

0

AutoRecovery replication worker settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
rereplicationEntryBatchSize

The number of entries that a replication will rereplicate in parallel.

10
openLedgerRereplicationGracePeriod

The grace period, in milliseconds, that the replication worker waits before fencing and replicating a ledger fragment that’s still being written to upon bookie failure.

30000
lockReleaseOfFailedLedgerGracePeriod

Set the grace period, in milliseconds, which the replication worker has to wait before releasing the lock after it failed to replicate a ledger. For the first ReplicationWorker.NUM_OF_EXPONENTIAL_BACKOFF_RETRIALS failures it will do exponential backoff then it will bound at lockReleaseOfFailedLedgerGracePeriod.

300000
rwRereplicateBackoffMs

The time to backoff when replication worker encounters exceptions on replicating a ledger, in milliseconds.

5000

Memory allocator settings

ParameterDescriptionDefault
allocatorPoolingPolicy

Define the memory pooling policy.

Available options are:

  • PooledDirect: Use Direct memory for all buffers and pool the memory. Direct memory will avoid the overhead of JVM GC and most memory copies when reading and writing to socket channel. Pooling will add memory space overhead due to the fact that there will be fragmentation in the allocator and that threads will keep a portion of memory as thread-local to avoid contention when possible.
  • UnpooledHeap: Allocate memory from JVM heap without any pooling. This option has the least overhead in terms of memory usage since the memory will be automatically reclaimed by the JVM GC but might impose a performance penalty at high throughput.
PooledDirect
allocatorPoolingConcurrency

Controls the amount of concurrency for the memory pool. Default is to have a number of allocator arenas equals to 2 CPUS. Decreasing this number will reduce the amount of memory overhead, at the expense of increased allocation contention.

2 CPUS
allocatorOutOfMemoryPolicy

Define the memory allocator out of memory policy.

Available options are:

  • FallbackToHeap: If it’s not possible to allocate a buffer from direct memory, fallback to allocate an unpooled buffer from JVM heap. This will help absorb memory allocation spikes because the heap allocations will naturally slow down the process and will result if full GC cleanup if the Heap itself is full.
  • ThrowException: Throw regular OOM exception without taking addition actions.
FallbackToHeap
allocatorLeakDetectionPolicy

Define the memory allocator leak detection policy.

Available options are:

  • Disabled: No leak detection and no overhead.
  • Simple: Instruments 1% of the allocated buffer to track for leaks.
  • Advanced: Instruments 1% of the allocated buffer to track for leaks, reporting stack traces of places where the buffer was used.
  • Paranoid: Instruments 100% of the allocated buffer to track for leaks, reporting stack traces of places where the buffer was used. Introduce very significant overhead.
Disabled