Archived Workflow Search and Views

[srivathsanvc]

Summary

Have the ability to search in the workflow history, for specific queries such as:

• Sort the workflows by start / finish time
• Filter by status (scheduled / completed / error etc.)
• View workflow details, such as links to logs, pod information etc.

Motivation

ML workflows for training, batch inference etc. run on multiple triggers - timed (schedule) trigger, event trigger (arrival of a file, completion of another workflow, etc.). These workflows run 24x7, in an unattended manner.

Teams have a need to look back at the history of workflow runs for various reasons, such as:

• Why did a particular workflow fail?
• My model was trained over the weekend. Why? What triggered it?
• What data was produced as a result of the workflow run?
• Workflow runs in the last few days have been taking longer and longer. What is going on?

Proposal

There should be a location in the Argo UI for previous workflow executions. This page should allow for various search capabilities within the list of prior workflows.

Clicking into a particular workflow should show a read-only view of the workflow with all the details that would normally be visible if the workflow was currently in progress. From here, a user can either clone the workflow, re-run the same workflow etc.

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[alexec]

I think we should probably treat this as an EPIC and break it up into about 5 smaller items.

[markterm]

Note that it would also be useful to be able to find/filter by label.

[alexec]

This should be via the UI.

[alexec]

Just for archived workflows.

[alexec]

Broken up into smaller issues.