Is there anyway to get a normal

context.log

to display a pretty table of info (like an

AssetObservation

can with the

metadata

property)? I am logging some configuration details when instantiating a resource and would like to use the tabular log display in Dagit if possible.

Yeah this just came up the other day - https://dagster.slack.com/archives/C01U954MEER/p1685562648485379?thread_ts=1685561971.177919&cid=C01U954MEER

You could yield metadata in an asset observation or materialization. The context.log object is a standard python logger, so the functionality there is limited to the contents that can be logged via a logger. To my knowledge this doesn't include structured objects.

In this case I cannot use anything asset or ExpectationResult related, as this is a resource being instantiated and then passed into a Definition. It would be nice to have a method to do richer Dagit UI logging outside of ExpectationResult/AssetObservation type events.

Unfortunately I don't believe we support this at the moment. We do have an issue for tracking: https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/issues/4082

Great, thank you for the issue link! 🙂