Worker Watchdog for Monitoring Worker Health
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- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 151
- Forks
- 30
- PR merge metrics
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Description
There needs to be a worker watchdog process that will start automatically when the merlin run-workers command is given. This watchdog will monitor the health of workers and restart them if they are dead/stalled when necessary. Can likely use Ryan Lee's work from #489 to influence the work here. The changes from #529 will be helpful for this as well.
After speaking with Luc and Ryan Lee we decided this would be better as a watchdog process rather than baked into the monitor so that users get it automatically when launching workers.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the entry point for the merlin run-workers command and review the work in issues #489 and #529. Determine how workers are launched and monitored, then define completion as an automatically started watchdog that detects dead or stalled workers and restarts them when necessary.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100