What happened?

Reported from GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowTemplates#759

When implementing a load test for BigTableIO, we encountered the following:

• load tests up to 200mb pass stably.
• after 5 million records, not all data gets into BigTable, but the pipeline logs indicate that all data was written.

Dataflow write pipeline logs say that 10M records were written.
However, the read job shows only 1.6M records read.

Using the cbt utility, the cbt -instance count

command found out that BigTableIO write did not work correctly. Despite the fact that the logs say that all 10M records were written, in fact, there were exactly as many in the table as the read pipeline processed (1.6M). Some of the records processed by the write pipeline did not get into the table.

• Dataflow write pipeline logs - 2023-06-05_03_51_23-9051905355392445711
• Dataflow read pipeline logs - 2023-06-05_03_58_18-7016807525741705033

project: apache-beam-testing

Issue Priority

Priority: 1 (data loss / total loss of function)

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