MonoVertex Bypass Routing

Overview

Provides capability to users to skip components when sending messages to different types of sinks.

Example Scenario

Let’s say a message is determined to be faulty/corrupted/non-parsable in the transformer component, such messages are to be written to a fallback sink/DLQ in this use case. The bypass configuration allows tagging this message with some user defined tag in the spec, so that it can directly be forwarded to the fallback sink when encountered in the transformer and skip UDF/Primary sink components.

Flow Visualized

Normal Flow

With bypass enabled

Details

Currently bypassing/routing is supported only to the 3 types of sink paradigms allowed in Numaflow MonoVertex spec, namely:

• sink or the primary sink
• fallback sink
• onSuccess sink

Spec

The bypass spec subsequently allows defining bypass rules for these 3 currently supported sink types:

• sink (our primary sink)
• fallback (fallback sink)
• onSuccess (onSuccess sink)

Conditions defined under each sink label follow the same pattern as our conventional conditional forwarding for edges in numaflow pipelines.

Spec for MonoVertex bypass feature:

# Short-circuiting/Bypass routing rules for mvtx
spec:
  bypass:
    fallback:
      tags:
        operator: or
        values:
          - tag-a
    onSuccess:
      tags:
        operator: and
        values:
          - tag-b
    sink:
      tags:
        operator: nor
        values:
          - tag-c
            ...

Caveats

• As defined in fallback sink and onSuccess sink docs, these supporting sinks can only be added if the primary sink is a user-defined sink.
• If bypass conditions are specified for the primary sink, then any message that doesn’t satisfy any of the bypass conditions is dropped when it reaches the primary sink and hence not processed by the primary sink.