+1 this is a very helpful feature On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM Voon <v...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I have created a PR https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/13152 for RFC-94 > for Hudi Timeline User Interface (UI). > > *Problem Statement:* > Analysing Hudi Timeline files are quite tedious when debugging, especially > when they are encoded in an Avro binary. The only way to navigate or browse > the timeline is to use a CLI or a file browser to list out the files under > .hoodie. Doing this, we often have a rough time identifying concurrent > operations, long running tasks or even jobs that are sometimes stuck. > > *Solution:* > Similar to how Spark-Web-UI renders Event Timeline that displays in > chronological order the events related to the executors (added, removed) > and the jobs, we can also render Hudi Timeline using a similar approach, > and all these will only require a list file operation of the .hoodie > directory. > > This UI can be extended to also show incremental clean range, i.e. which > timelines are cleaned and allow users to view instants content by decoding > the avro binary to JSON. > > A simple PoC is implemented in this PR: > https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/13147 > > As of now, the simple PoC is implemented in plain HTML and vanilla > javascript without any CSS libraries, I will leave the decision of the CSS > library up to the community. > > PTAL, any feedback will be appreciated. > > Cheers, > Voon > -- Best, Shiyan
