question Re: Data Provenance not showing on imported template in Support Questions

Data Provenance not showing on imported template

Alexandros — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:35:57 GMT

Hi, currently I have 2 process groups on NiFi 1.11.3, the native one is showing data provenance on every processor as it should.

The imported template (from 1.9.2) inside another group shows a blank provenance window.

Any idea of what can be causing this?

Thank you!

Re: Data Provenance not showing on imported template

Alexandros — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:38:57 GMT

Sorry for the bump, have more time than usual to solve this kind of problems, any idea?

It's becoming hard to debug flows without this.

Thank you!

Re: Data Provenance not showing on imported template

MattWho — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:10:38 GMT

@Alexandros

Going to ask the simple question first... There are FlowFiles traversing the processors in this newly instantiated flow from your template, correct?

--- The next thought would then be around authorizations (assuming your NiFi is secured)

1. Is your user running the provenance query authorized to "view provenance" and "view the data" on the components? If these are set on the process group containing these processor components and not set on the components themselves, the components will inherit the polices from the process group.

2. Is this a NiFi cluster? If so, make sure your NiFi nodes are also authorized to "view provenance" and "view the data". When you authenticate in to NiFi and run a provenance query, that query is replicated to all nodes in your cluster. Those query results are then returned to the node on which the originating request was made. If that node is not authorized to view data returned from other nodes, it will not display.

--- Then we need to make sure provenance it still working:

While you are seeing provenance events displayed for your existing flow, are those returns recent? If you monitor the contents of your provenance_repository, do you see timestamps updating on the <num>.prov files? Need to make sure provenance has not stopped working for some reason. Also make sure you are using the WriteAheadProvenanceRepository implementation (should be default in 1.11) and not the PersistentProvenanceRepository implementation (configured in nifi.properties file).

Hope this helps,

Matt

Re: Data Provenance not showing on imported template

Alexandros — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 22:43:10 GMT

Ok, this is all me for not understanding permissions correctly, I thought that if a permission wasn't configured it heredates the the permissions of NiFi.

So: I'm Admin, I generated a group I should have access.

You made me check again and I thank you for that!