Resource Details in Engine Event I've written custom resource for several components used in my jobs. I notice that there in an

ENGINE_EVENT

displaying all resource instantiated at the beginning of a job run with instantiation times (nice!) - see attached screenshot from dagit. I noticed that the resource type behaves like a hyperlink, although it's just a

span

. Also there is a dash with nothing after it - suggesting that there could be something after the dash... I tried providing

__str()__

and

__repr()__

on my custom resources hoping that I could provide some runtime info about the resources that would show up in the

ENGINE_EVENT

. Is there some way to inspect a resource in dagit post-instantiation?

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but I've achieved some similar functionality through adding my own ENGINE_EVENTs, although it seems that this API isn't necessarily made to be used in this manner from within ops: https://dagster.slack.com/archives/C01U954MEER/p1649869900227799?thread_ts=1649847231.465009&cid=C01U954MEER you might be able to do the same from within a resource initialization block to get an effect similar to what you're looking for.

This is powered by this

metadata

type: https://docs.dagster.io/_apidocs/ops#dagster.PythonArtifactMetadataValue rendered by https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/blame/master/js_modules/dagit/packages/core/src/metadata/MetadataEntry.tsx#L239-L264 we dont attempt to set the

description

in any way where we create these metadata values https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/blame/master/python_modules/dagster/dagster/core/events/__init__.py#L921-L924 so this is something that could be improved

Created issue at: https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/issues/7624