Requests for a tool that monitors the execution of scipipe workflows.

[zhangzhen]

panoptes is such a tool for snakemake workflows.
nf-tower is such a tool for nextflow workflows.
Has scipipe provided such a tool or sort of APIs that I can use to monitor the execution of scipipe workflow? If not, could you please give me some hints about how to do that?

Regards,
Zhen

[jonalv]

I am more of a user of SciPipe than a developer but I mainly look at log files and output files. My workflows contains many steps which write to file so I simply look at how many files has been created which gives me a feeling for how the execution is going...

What are the features you want? I had a look at the README files of those projects but they don't specify any features of the projects just talk about which workflow tools they are built for...

[samuell]

Hi @zhangzhen , thanks for an interesting request! Indeed, just as @jonalv says, right now the main technique we have been using, is to monitor the file output to keep track of progress. It should be quite possible (and not to complicated) to create a better API for keeping track of the progress. I will ponder this when doing some updates to SciPipe during the summer!