[data] Improving Ray Data dashboard metrics. by justinrmiller · Pull Request #58667 · ray-project/ray

justinrmiller · 2025-11-15T23:21:31Z

Description

This PR improves the descriptions for Ray Data metrics as requested in [Issue 57750[(https://github.com//issues/57750).

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Fixes #57750 .

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Signed-off-by: Justin Miller <justinrmiller@gmail.com>

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This pull request significantly improves the descriptions for Ray Data metrics on the dashboard. The new descriptions are much clearer, more detailed, and provide excellent context for users to understand what each metric represents and how to interpret it. The changes are consistent and well-written across all updated panels. This will be a great improvement for users monitoring their Ray Data workloads. As a suggestion for a follow-up, it would be beneficial to update the corresponding metric descriptions in the documentation (doc/source/data/monitoring-your-workload.rst) to match these new, more informative descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Justin Miller <justinrmiller@users.noreply.github.com>

iamjustinhsu

Hey @justinrmiller, thanks for the contribution! This is some tech debt that desperately needed updating, so thank you for tackling this. I gave a few comments for the initial descriptions (haven't looked at the rest of the metrics), there are some gotchas where the original description is completely misleading. Just some general tips I would follow for providing these descriptions:

Extra details from the title that can't be inferred (like Bytes Output / Second doesn't tell me what an output is). This one you will probably use the most.
how to use this graph (like if your operator is ooming, or bottlenecked). This one I'll help with after more the descriptions have been updated.
how it's calculated (like logical cpu usage vs physical cpu usage). This one goes back to the 1st bullet point
prefer active tense and usage of contractions when applicable (this one is not necessary but makes it easier to read)

you don't know need to follow them religiously, just some tips.

python/ray/dashboard/modules/metrics/dashboards/data_dashboard_panels.py

Signed-off-by: Justin Miller <justinrmiller@gmail.com>

justinrmiller · 2025-11-19T05:44:59Z

Hi @iamjustinhsu and @alexeykudinkin, I have updated the PR based on feedback. Please take another look. Thanks!

iamjustinhsu

ok nice nice, i didn't review all the descriptions, but it's looking better. Another rule of thumb is to also keep stuff consistent (stages vs operators).

python/ray/dashboard/modules/metrics/dashboards/data_dashboard_panels.py

justinrmiller · 2025-11-19T23:05:38Z

ok nice nice, i didn't review all the descriptions, but it's looking better. Another rule of thumb is to also keep stuff consistent (stages vs operators).

Gotcha, thank you I will update tonight. I'm learning more about Ray Data internals through this so it's very helpful.

python/ray/dashboard/modules/metrics/dashboards/data_dashboard_panels.py

Signed-off-by: Justin Miller <justinrmiller@gmail.com>

justinrmiller · 2025-11-24T05:35:10Z

@iamjustinhsu Updated with the following commit: 464721f

By the way since this is a single file update, I'm happy to cut a new branch and do a single commit for this and cut a new PR. Might make the commit history cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Justin Miller <justinrmiller@gmail.com>

iamjustinhsu

cool.

EDIT: oops, didn't see ur message, no need to cut another branch, you can keep this one

python/ray/dashboard/modules/metrics/dashboards/data_dashboard_panels.py

iamjustinhsu · 2025-11-25T00:20:47Z

python/ray/dashboard/modules/metrics/dashboards/data_dashboard_panels.py

@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@
 ITERATION_BLOCKED_PANEL = Panel(
    id=9,
    title="Iteration Blocked Time",
-    description="Seconds user thread is blocked by iter_batches()",
+    description="Total time (in seconds) that the user's application thread is blocked while waiting for `iter_batches()` to produce data. High values indicate the data pipeline isn't generating batches fast enough to keep up with consumption rate, pointing to upstream bottlenecks.",
    unit="s",
    targets=[
        Target(
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@
 ITERATION_USER_PANEL = Panel(
    id=10,
    title="Iteration User Time",
-    description="Seconds spent in user code",
+    description="Total time (in seconds) spent executing user-defined code during data iteration. This includes time spent in UDFs (User-Defined Functions) and custom batch processing logic, useful for profiling user code performance.",
    unit="s",
    targets=[
        Target(
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@
 ITERATION_GET_PANEL = Panel(
    id=70,
    title="Iteration Get Time",
-    description="Seconds spent in ray.get() while resolving block references",
+    description="Total time (in seconds) spent performing `ray.get()` calls to resolve Ray object references into actual data blocks during iteration. This indicates latency associated with fetching data from the Ray object store, potentially across the network.",
    unit="seconds",
    targets=[
        Target(
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@
 ITERATION_NEXT_BATCH_PANEL = Panel(
    id=71,
    title="Iteration Next Batch Time",
-    description="Seconds spent getting the next batch from the block buffer",
+    description="Total time (in seconds) spent retrieving the next batch of data from the internal block buffer of the iterator. This is a fine-grained measure of the efficiency of the batching mechanism before formatting or collation.",
    unit="seconds",
    targets=[
        Target(
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@
 ITERATION_FORMAT_BATCH_PANEL = Panel(
    id=72,
    title="Iteration Format Batch Time",
-    description="Seconds spent formatting the batch",
+    description="Total time (in seconds) spent converting raw data blocks into the desired output format (e.g., Pandas DataFrame, PyArrow Table, NumPy array) for consumption by the user or a machine learning framework. This reflects the cost of data marshalling.",
    unit="seconds",
    targets=[
        Target(
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@
 ITERATION_COLLATE_BATCH_PANEL = Panel(
    id=73,
    title="Iteration Collate Batch Time",
-    description="Seconds spent collating the batch",
+    description="Total time (in seconds) spent applying a `CollateFn` to batches, typically for deep learning frameworks like PyTorch. This includes operations such as stacking tensors, padding, or moving data to a specific device like a GPU.",
    unit="seconds",
    targets=[
        Target(
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@
 ITERATION_FINALIZE_BATCH_PANEL = Panel(
    id=74,
    title="Iteration Finalize Batch Time",
-    description="Seconds spent finalizing the batch",
+    description="Total time (in seconds) spent in any final processing steps applied to a batch before it's yielded to the user, as defined by a `finalize_fn`. This can include last-minute transformations or device transfers.",
    unit="seconds",
    targets=[
        Target(
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@
 ITERATION_BLOCKS_LOCAL_PANEL = Panel(
    id=75,
    title="Iteration Blocks Local",
-    description="Number of blocks already on the local node",
+    description="Count of blocks found on the local node (same node as the consuming application) during iteration. Accessing local blocks is generally faster and more efficient as it avoids network transfer.",
    unit="blocks",
    targets=[
        Target(
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@
 ITERATION_BLOCKS_REMOTE_PANEL = Panel(
    id=76,
    title="Iteration Blocks Remote",
-    description="Number of blocks that require fetching from another node",
+    description="Count of blocks that needed to be fetched from a remote node (different node in the Ray cluster) during iteration. A high number of remote blocks can indicate significant network transfer overhead, potentially bottlenecking iteration performance.",
    unit="blocks",
    targets=[
        Target(
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@
 ITERATION_BLOCKS_UNKNOWN_LOCATION_PANEL = Panel(
    id=77,
    title="Iteration Blocks Unknown Location",
-    description="Number of blocks that have unknown locations",
+    description="Count of blocks for which the location (local or remote) couldn't be determined during iteration. This might suggest issues with the Ray object store's metadata tracking or liveness of relevant Ray nodes.",
    unit="blocks",
    targets=[
        Target(


cc: @ray-project/ray-train can someone take a look at this?

or cc @srinathk10 or @raulchen

python/ray/dashboard/modules/metrics/dashboards/data_dashboard_panels.py

Signed-off-by: Justin Miller <justinrmiller@gmail.com>

justinrmiller

Updated the PR for almost all of the comments, have a question.

python/ray/dashboard/modules/metrics/dashboards/data_dashboard_panels.py

iamjustinhsu

lgtm! tysm :)

richardliaw · 2025-12-01T19:13:04Z

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justinrmiller · 2025-12-03T11:39:07Z

@iamjustinhsu Could you go ahead and merge this please? Thanks!

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