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.. _loggers-docstring:
Loggers (tune.logger)
=====================
Tune has default loggers for Tensorboard, CSV, and JSON formats.
Logging Path
------------
Tune will log the results of each trial to a subfolder under a specified local dir, which defaults to ``~/ray_results``.
.. code-block:: python
# This logs to 2 different trial folders:
# ~/ray_results/trainable_name/trial_name_1 and ~/ray_results/trainable_name/trial_name_2
# trainable_name and trial_name are autogenerated.
tune.run(trainable, num_samples=2)
You can specify the ``local_dir`` and ``trainable_name``:
.. code-block:: python
# This logs to 2 different trial folders:
# ./results/test_experiment/trial_name_1 and ./results/test_experiment/trial_name_2
# Only trial_name is autogenerated.
tune.run(trainable, num_samples=2, local_dir="./results", name="test_experiment")
To specify custom trial folder names, you can pass use the ``trial_name_creator`` argument
to `tune.run`. This takes a function with the following signature:
.. code-block:: python
def trial_name_string(trial):
"""
Args:
trial (Trial): A generated trial object.
Returns:
trial_name (str): String representation of Trial.
"""
return str(trial)
tune.run(
MyTrainableClass,
name="example-experiment",
num_samples=1,
trial_name_creator=trial_name_string
)
See the documentation on Trials: :ref:`trial-docstring`.
Custom Loggers
--------------
You can pass in your own logging mechanisms to output logs in custom formats as follows:
.. code-block:: python
from ray.tune.logger import DEFAULT_LOGGERS
tune.run(
MyTrainableClass,
name="experiment_name",
loggers=DEFAULT_LOGGERS + (CustomLogger1, CustomLogger2)
)
These loggers will be called along with the default Tune loggers. All loggers must inherit the Logger interface (:ref:`logger-interface`). You can also check out `logger.py <https://github.com/ray-project/ray/blob/master/python/ray/tune/logger.py>`__ for implementation details.
An example can be found in `logging_example.py <https://github.com/ray-project/ray/blob/master/python/ray/tune/examples/logging_example.py>`__.
Viskit
------
Tune automatically integrates with `Viskit <https://github.com/vitchyr/viskit>`_ via the ``CSVLogger`` outputs. To use VisKit (you may have to install some dependencies), run:
.. code-block:: bash
$ git clone https://github.com/rll/rllab.git
$ python rllab/rllab/viskit/frontend.py ~/ray_results/my_experiment
The nonrelevant metrics (like timing stats) can be disabled on the left to show only the relevant ones (like accuracy, loss, etc.).
.. image:: /ray-tune-viskit.png
.. _logger-interface:
Logger
------
.. autoclass:: ray.tune.logger.Logger
UnifiedLogger
-------------
.. autoclass:: ray.tune.logger.UnifiedLogger
TBXLogger
---------
.. autoclass:: ray.tune.logger.TBXLogger
JsonLogger
----------
.. autoclass:: ray.tune.logger.JsonLogger
CSVLogger
---------
.. autoclass:: ray.tune.logger.CSVLogger
MLFLowLogger
------------
Tune also provides a default logger for `MLFlow <https://mlflow.org>`_. You can install MLFlow via ``pip install mlflow``. An example can be found `mlflow_example.py <https://github.com/ray-project/ray/blob/master/python/ray/tune/examples/mlflow_example.py>`__. Note that this currently does not include artifact logging support. For this, you can use the native MLFlow APIs inside your Trainable definition.
.. autoclass:: ray.tune.logger.MLFLowLogger