hello, <@U045RFQ0QCS> <@U052ASLR0BE> addressed the...
# ask-metaflow
h
hello, @billowy-elephant-32063 @gray-monitor-53387 addressed the issue of non displayable artifacts from the ui on local but two solutions were offered. deploying kubernetes locally with something like minio seems like overkill when you just want to use the ui to explore the contents of
.metaflow
. is there an out of the box way to use the ui to explore the contents of
.metaflow
? i am confused on why a notebook has to be created to inspect flows when we could already leverage the ui for this. for ref here are the past threads: https://outerbounds-community.slack.com/archives/C02116BBNTU/p1680844294857829 https://outerbounds-community.slack.com/archives/C02116BBNTU/p1665481436770399
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another way to explore the contents stored locally would be to use
metaflow cards
- https://docs.metaflow.org/metaflow/visualizing-results/advanced-shareable-cards-with-card-templates#developing-a-card-template
the reason why the ui can't be used as is today - is because the ui fetches data that is stored in a blob store and indexed in a postgres instance.
a simpler version of the ui can be built out that can go against the contents of the
.metaflow
folder - effectively what the notebook or the card would be doing. we just need to get around to building it 🙂
h
thanks for the explanation! it would be def a nice feature because you could do so much out of the box. also because you can also check out cards and nbs from the ui, effectively deeming an extra tool like w&b less necessary