e in most of the cases, but there are certain circumstances when Flink can be stuck in restart loops often resulting in <code>OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace</code> type of state which the job cannot recover from. If the root cause is just a temporary outage of some external system, for example, the Flink job could be resurrected by simply performing a full restart on the application.</p>
<p>This restart can now be triggered by the operator itself. The operator can watch the actual retry count of a Flink job an