I am in the process of getting started with Dagster locally. However, always see the warning of: The dagster instance configuration file (dagster.yaml) is not present. DAGSTER_HOME=/path/to/dagster_home dagit -f pipelines/hello_dagster.py is also not fixing it. How can I configure a minimal dagster setup correctly?

Hmm not sure what is going here. It’s hard to know without more context.

Hi , I think you mean when you start dagit, not dagster?

indeed!

Oh interesting. Cc: @daniel do you have a sense of what is going on here?

Hi @geoHeil - its fine to have an empty dagster.yaml file if you don't want anything other than the defaults - that will suppress the warning. You can see the various options that can go in your dagster.yaml here, but none of them are required: https://docs.dagster.io/overview/instances/dagster-instance

understood. But I would want to have the logs for dagit & dagster (as well as these SQLite DBs (= state)) in the same foler for both. Why is dagit not taking the DAGSTER_HOME variable? What could perhaps be wrong in my way of specifying it?

ah, you have a dagster.yaml at /path/to/dagster_home but dagit isn't seeing it?

indeed.

Huh. What terminal/command-line environment are you using to run dagit? Does setting the environment variable separately before running dagit resolve the issue? “export DAGSTER_HOME=...”

indeed - and I also have figured a bug on my end: the bashrc was setting DAGSTER_HOME - but I forgot the

export

. For

dagster

I previously (indeed) was passing the variable manually on the CLI - and somehow I missed to do that for dagit and got confused. Thx for helping out!

maybe this warning should be a little more expllicit

Hello - am running into the same problem and not sure how to fix this. I would also certainly need to set the logs and am missing how to set this properly in a windows machine. Can anyone put up a more detailed document please? It would a great asset to starters like me who has minimal knowledge on code based tool who wanted to move from GUI based ones!

we should definitely document how to set a windows env variable -- would you mind opening an issue? in the meantime there is https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/page.php?id=24500

Thanks!

actually i think i can create an issue from slack