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Timestamps from Results Pane

For the purposes of troubleshooting/optimization, it might come in handy to have a timestamp column in the Results Pane. Especially with processes time-consuming enough that I let them run in the background, I would like to know which steps are particularly time consuming, and seeing when the messages were generated would at least be a start.

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rdoptis
11 - Bolide

There is an option in the Workflow Preferences to "Enable Performance Profiling" for your workflow which will tell you how long, and what % of total each tool takes.

 

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The only thing this is missing from your proposed idea is the raw timestamps. 

 

 

Regards,

Ryan

 

daniel_mmi
9 - Comet

Thanks! That works for me.

 

danielkresina
9 - Comet

I agree that raw timestamps in the results pane would be very useful.  The profiler doesn't help with InDB workflows, for example.  If I had a timestamp next to each message in the results window then I would know when each temporary table was created, or each stream in/stream out was completed in my workflow.

 

I assume this wouldn't be too difficult of a feature to add?

lminors
9 - Comet

This would be a straightforward addition but would allow tracking of when a workflow was run, when a file was created/changed, when something errored etc etc.

 

Too many times I've missed the pop-up and not been certain of when my workflow had run without digging around and looking at file creation times etc.

ccruzagosto
7 - Meteor

I agree with @danielkresina, having timestamps in the results window would be very useful.

anotherusername
8 - Asteroid

Definite vote from me too.

 

The timestamp exists in the e-mailed log (if you send that from Events tab), so it should be easily addable to the Results window given that the data is already tracked in the log.

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marcusblackhill
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

It would be awesome to have the performance profiling as a global configuration in server