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Beam metrics are unreadable in Flink history server

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Description

Beam metric values (payload) are not readable in Flink's web UI and Flink history server. Similar problem affected Spark history server and it was resolved in BEAM-10294.

Beam metrics are rendered by *MetricsContainerStepMap.toString()* method as JSON which is created from protobuffer defined in *metrics.proto* where metric's value is defined as bytes.

For example, metrics in Flink web UI used to look like:
```

MetricQueryResults(Counters(sets-by-key-bloomfilter/filter-by-bloom-filter/ParMultiDo(FilterByBloomFilter):org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.sketching.BloomFilters$FilterByBloomFilterFn:filtered-out:
123456789))
```

Now they look like:

```

{\n \"metrics\": {\n \"attempted\": [{\n \"urn\": \"beam:metric:user:sum_int64:v1\",\n \"type\": \"beam:metrics:sum_int64:v1\",\n
\"payload\": \"ip0K\",\n \"labels\": {\n \"NAMESPACE\": \"ImageClicksReader\",\n \"NAME\": \"filtered-out\",\n
\"PTRANSFORM\": \"sets-by-key-bloomfilter/filter-by-bloom-filter/ParMultiDo(FilterByBloomFilter\"\n
}\n } \n} \n}
```

 

Imported from Jira [BEAM-12401](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-12401). Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: davidak09.

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