Elli, To your first point, we do have an existing JIRA [1] to make this level of detail more available in the provenance lineage graph. The current proposal would be to make this information available in a tooltip over the event.
Matt [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1199 On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Elli Schwarz < eliezer_schw...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > I've been reading up on how provenance works (thank you, Thad, for > pointing me to that video - it was very helpful). It looks like it could > definitely help me instead of my many PutFiles I've been using in the past. > (In fact, the PutFiles now clutter the lineage diagram so I want to get rid > of them!) > > I have a couple of questions:1) Is there a way to see the name of the > processor on the Provenance graph diagram (show lineage)? I know if I click > on show details I can see the name of the processor, but I think it might > be helpful to see it in the graph along with the event that occurred. (An > "expand all" button might also be helpful, though I suppose that can get > out of hand if there are a lot of processors that processed a flowfile). > 2) I use nifi site-to-site to send some processors to another nifi for > special processing, and then the flowfile (actually a child flowfile) is > sent back to the first nifi. It looks like the lineage ends at the "send" > event, when the flowfile is sent from Nifi 1 to the remote Nifi 2. I would > like to be able to see when that flowfile is received again by Nifi 1 so I > that on Nifi 1, I can see the entire lineage - flowfile processed by > several processors on Nifi 1, sent to Nifi 2, then returned back to Nifi 1 > and processed by more processors. I know I won't see the lineage that > occurred on Nifi 2 from Nifi 1, and that's OK - I just want to see that the > flowfile came back instead of having to search for it. > I am quite impressed by what Nifi provenance can do, and wish I'd known > more about it sooner. Thank you!-Elli > > On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 6:16 PM, Thad Guidry < > thadgui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Elli, > > Joe gave an excellent talk last year at OSCON 2015. > > Shows a bit of the provenance features and searchability of NiFi. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQCgtCoZyFQ > > ​Full videos and tutorials are here: https://nifi.apache.org/videos.html > > > Thad > +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry> > > >
