Snakemake supports panoptes a server (under development) that lets you monitor the execution of snakemake workflows. Snakemake communicates with panoptes via the --wms-monitor flag. The flag specifies the ip and port where panoptes is running (e.g. --wms-monitor http://127.0.0.1:5000). Snakemake sends the following requests to wms monitor: