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Most of the properties in Pinot are set in Zookeeper via Helix. However, you can also set properties in controller.conf file. You can specify the path to configuration file at the startup time as follows:
bin/pinot-admin.sh StartController -configFileName /path/to/controller.conf
Controller.conf can have the following properties.

Primary configuration

Property
Default
Description
controller.vip.host
same as controller.host
The VIP hostname used to set the download URL for segments
controller.vip.port
same as controller.port
controller.vip.protocol
controller.host
localhost
The ip of the host on which controller is running
controller.port
9000
The port on which controller should run
controller.access.protocol
controller.data.dir
${java.io.tmpdir}/PinotController
Directory to host segment data
controller.local.temp.dir
controller.zk.str
localhost:2181
zookeeper host:port string to connect
controller.update_segment_state_model
false
controller.helix.cluster.name
Pinot Cluster Name, required.
controller.tenant.isolation.enable
true
Enable Tenant Isolation, default is single tenant cluste
controller.enable.split.commit
false
controller.query.console.useHttps
false
use https instead of http for cluster
controller.upload.onlineToOfflineTimeout
2 minutes
controller.mode
dual
Should be one of helix_only, pinot_only or dual
controller.resource.rebalance.strategy
org.apache.helix.controller. rebalancer.strategy.AutoRebalanceStrategy
controller.realtime.segment.commit.timeoutSeconds
120 seconds
request timeout for segment commit
controller.deleted.segments.retentionInDays
7 days
duration for which to retain deleted segments
controller.admin.access.control.factory.class
org.apache.pinot.controller. api.access.AllowAllAccessFactory
controller.segment.upload.timeoutInMillis
10 minutes
timeout for upload of segments.
controller.realtime.segment.metadata.commit.numLocks
64
controller.enable.storage.quota.check
true
controller.enable.batch.message.mode
false
controller.allow.hlc.tables
true
controller.storage.factory.class.file
org.apache.pinot.spi. filesystem.LocalPinotFS
table.minReplicas
1
controller.access.protocols
http
Ingress protocols to access controller (http or https or http,https)
controller.access.protocols.http.port
Port to access controller via http
controller.broker.protocols.https.port
Port to access controller via https
controller.broker.protocol
http
protocol for forwarding query requests (http or https)
controller.broker.port.override
override for broker port when forwarding query requests (use in multi-ingress scenarios)
controller.tls.keystore.path
Path to controller TLS keystore
controller.tls.keystore.password
keystore password
controller.tls.truststore.path
Path to controller TLS truststore
controller.tls.truststore.password
truststore password
controller.tls.client.auth
false
toggle for requiring TLS client auth
pinot.controller.http.server.thread.pool.corePoolSize
2 * cores
Config for the thread-pool used by pinot-controller's http-server.
pinot.controller.http.server.thread.pool.maxPoolSize
2 * cores
Config for the thread-pool used by pinot-controller's http-server.
pinot.controller.segment.fetcher.http.client.maxTotalConn
Config for the http-client used by HttpSegmentFetcher for downloading segments
pinot.controller.segment.fetcher.http.client.maxConnPerRoute
Config for the http-client used by HttpSegmentFetcher for downloading segments

Periodic task configuration

The following period tasks are

BrokerResourceValidationManager

This task rebuilds the BrokerResource if the instance set has changed.
Config
Default Value
controller.broker.resource.validation.frequencyPeriod
1h
controller.broker.resource.validation.initialDelayInSeconds
between 2m-5m

StaleInstancesCleanupTask

This task periodically cleans up stale Pinot broker/server/minion instances.
Config
Default Value
controller.stale.instances.cleanup.task.frequencyPeriod
1h
controller.stale.instances.cleanup.task.initialDelaySeconds
between 2m-5m
controller.stale.instances.cleanup.task.minOfflineTimeBeforeDeletionPeriod
1h

OfflineSegmentIntervalChecker

This task manages the segment ValidationMetrics (missingSegmentCount, offlineSegmentDelayHours, lastPushTimeDelayHours, TotalDocumentCount, NonConsumingPartitionCount, SegmentCount), to ensure that all offline segments are contiguous (no missing segments) and that the offline push delay isn't too high.
Config
Default Value
controller.offline.segment.interval.checker.frequencyPeriod
24h
controller.statuschecker.waitForPushTimePeriod
10m
controller.offlineSegmentIntervalChecker.initialDelayInSeconds
between 2m-5m

PinotTaskManager

TBD

RealtimeSegmentValidationManager

This task validates the ideal state and segment zk metadata of real-time tables by doing the following:
  • fixing any partitions which have stopped consuming
  • starting consumption from new partitions
  • uploading segments to deep store if segment download url is missing
This task ensures that the consumption of the real-time tables gets fixed and keeps going when met with erroneous conditions.
This task does not fix consumption stalled due to
  • CONSUMING segment being deleted
  • Kafka OOR exceptions
Config
Default Value
controller.realtime.segment.validation.frequencyPeriod
1h
controller.realtime.segment.validation.initialDelayInSeconds
between 2m-5m

RetentionManager

This task manages retention of segments for all tables. During the run, it looks at the retentionTimeUnit and retentionTimeValue inside the segmentsConfig of every table, and deletes segments which are older than the retention. The deleted segments are moved to a DeletedSegments folder colocated with the dataDir on segment store, and permanently deleted from that folder in a configurable number of days.
Config
Default Value
controller.retention.frequencyPeriod
6h
controller.retentionManager.initialDelayInSeconds
between 2m-5m
controller.deleted.segments.retentionInDays
7d

SegmentRelocator

This task is applicable only if you have tierConfig or tagOverrideConfig. It runs rebalance in the background to
  1. 1.
    relocate COMPLETED segments to tag overrides
  2. 2.
    relocate ONLINE segments to tiers if tier configs are set
At most one replica is allowed to be unavailable during rebalance.
Config
Default Value
controller.segment.relocator.frequencyPeriod
1h
controller.segmentRelocator.initialDelayInSeconds
between 2m-5m

SegmentStatusChecker

This task manages segment status metrics such as realtimeTableCount, offlineTableCount, disableTableCount, numberOfReplicas, percentOfReplicas, percentOfSegments, idealStateZnodeSize, idealStateZnodeByteSize, segmentCount, segmentsInErrorState, tableCompressedSize.
Config
Default Value
controller.statuschecker.frequencyPeriod
5m
controller.statusChecker.initialDelayInSeconds
between 2m-5m

TaskMetricsEmitter

TBD