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Running a simple Flink application

In this example, you will use the Stateless Monitoring Application from the Flink Tutorials to build your Flink project, submit a Flink job and monitor your Flink application using the Flink Dashboard in an unsecured environment.

  1. Clone the simple tutorial from git: 
    git clone https://github.com/cloudera/flink-tutorials.git
  2. Access the simple tutorial folder: 
    cd flink-tutorials/flink-simple-tutorial
  3. Build your Flink project using maven: 
    mvn clean package
  4. Upload the Flink project to your cluster. 
    scp <location>/flink-stateful-tutorial-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar <your_workload_username>@<master_node_FQDN>:.
Password:<your_workload_password>
  5. Run the Flink application: 
    flink run -d -p 2 -ynm HeapMonitor target/flink-simple-tutorial-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
  6. Navigate to Management Console > Environments, and select the environment where you have created your cluster.
  7. Select the Streaming Analytics cluster.
  8. Click Flink Dashboard from the services.
    The Flink Dashboard opens in a new window.
  9. Click Task Manager on the left side menu.
  10. Monitor your Flink application under logs.