Workflow Visualization

BEE includes a simple command for viewing BEE workflows. By using the beeflow dag $ID command, you can view the directed acyclic graph (DAG) of any submitted workflow.

Creating DAGs

The dag command can be run at any point of the workflow, and can be run multiple times. To see the DAG of a workflow before it runs, submit the workflow with the --no-start flag and then use the dag command. The DAGs are exported in PNG format to ~/.beeflow/dags. They follow the naming convention $ID.png

Example DAG

The DAG below was created by running the dag command while the cat-grep-tar example workflow was running.

The orange bubbles are inputs, the blue bubbles are task states, the red bubbles are tasks, and the green bubbles are outputs. The graph is in a hierarchical format, meaning that tasks that are higher up in the graph run before the ones below them.