apache/druid · error · IllegalStateException

Value of Infinite is not allowed!

Error message

Value of Infinite is not allowed!

What it means

ServiceMetricEvent.Builder.setMetric also rejects infinite values (Double.isInfinite) with ISE. Infinite values (from overflow or division by zero) cannot be aggregated correctly downstream, so the builder throws rather than propagating them into the metrics pipeline.

Solutions

1. Guard the arithmetic: check denominators, cap/round values, or use long arithmetic before converting to double.
2. Sanitize before emitting: skip or clamp infinite values to a configured max.
3. Fix the upstream counter/calculation that overflows.
4. Log the offending metric name and value so the source computation can be fixed.

Example fix

// before
double rate = processed / elapsedSeconds; // elapsedSeconds == 0.0 -> Infinity
builder.setMetric("ingest/rate", rate); // ISE
// after
double rate = elapsedSeconds > 0 ? processed / elapsedSeconds : 0.0;
if (!Double.isInfinite(rate) && !Double.isNaN(rate)) {
  builder.setMetric("ingest/rate", rate);
}

double v = metricValue.doubleValue();
if (Double.isInfinite(v)) { v = cap; /* clamp or skip */ }
builder.setMetric(metricName, v);

try {
  builder.setMetric(name, value);
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
  log.warn("Skipping non-finite metric [%s]", name);
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling setMetric(name, value) where value.doubleValue() is Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY or NEGATIVE_INFINITY — commonly from double overflow or x/0.0 on doubles.

Common situations: Rate/throughput computations dividing by a near-zero elapsed time; cumulative counters overflowing double range; monitors summing unbounded values.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Must be a positive integer", "Invalid value", "Unsupported": the invalid-argument-value error family, when a library rejects the value you pass — this error's family across 35 libraries.

Related errors

• Value of NaN is not allowed!
• Dimension name cannot be null
• Encountered metric with null or empty name at position
• Value of dimension[ ] cannot be null
• A batch appenderator was already created for this peon's…

AI-assisted analysis of apache/druid@9b90983fd2 (2026-09-07). Data as JSON: /api/errors/530a3c50ba6867b5. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/java/util/emitter/service/ServiceMetricEvent.java:198

        throw new IAE("Value of dimension[%s] cannot be null", dim);
      }

      userDims.put(dim, value);
      return this;
    }

    public Object getDimension(String dim)
    {
      return userDims.get(dim);
    }

    public Builder setMetric(String metric, Number value)
    {
      if (Double.isNaN(value.doubleValue())) {
        throw new ISE("Value of NaN is not allowed!");
      }
      if (Double.isInfinite(value.doubleValue())) {
        throw new ISE("Value of Infinite is not allowed!");
      }

      this.metric = metric;
      this.value = value;
      return this;
    }

    public Builder setCreatedTime(DateTime createdTime)
    {
      this.createdTime = createdTime;
      return this;
    }

    @Override
    public ServiceMetricEvent build(ImmutableMap<String, String> serviceDimensions)
    {
      Preconditions.checkNotNull(metric, "Metric is not set");
      Preconditions.checkNotNull(value, "Value is not set");

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