Project Panels page¶

The Panels page is as a customizable dashboard for your project, and the default page when opening an Experiment Management project in the Comet UI.

The project dashboard allows you to view and compare performance across multiple experiments. In addition to viewing the metrics we have added automatically for you, you can add more visualizations to the dashboard.

Each action is explored in detail in the respective sections below.

Manage the experiments list¶

The Experiments sidebar provides you with a list of all your experiments. This list can be customized through some of the actions available next to the Experiments header:

1. Filter experiments: Filter down the experiments based on any of the data logged to them.
2. Sort experiments: Sort the experiments based on any of the data logged to them.
3. Group experiments: Group experiments based on metadata, Comet will display in the charts the experiments from the last opened grouped.

Please refer to the Manage displayed experiments section for information on how to manage the experiments list.

Perform bulk actions on selected experiments¶

From the Project Panels page, you can select experiments and perform actions using the bottom action bar. The most commonly used actions include:

1. Diff: Allows you to compare up to 4 experiments side by side
2. Archive: Soft-delete the selected experiments
3. Tag: Add a tag to all the selected experiments, can be useful for filtering

Please refer to the Perform bulk actions on selected experiments section for more information.

Update the dashboard view¶

The dashboard displays all panels for the specified view. Comet defaults to the "Auto Generated" view which is created by Comet automatically for your project and displays the 12 most common metrics for your project.

You can customize this dashboard by editing the panels, updating dashboard settings or adding your own visualizations to it. You can learn more about all the visualizations Comet has to offer here.

Edit the panels¶

A panel is a built-in or custom Python visualization. Review the available panels in the Visualizations section.

Group panels in sections¶

You can group panels inside sections.

To create a section, click on the Add section button at the bottom of the Panels dashboard.

Every section has a customizable name that you can update by clicking on the Pencil icon that appears when hovering by the section name.

Additionally, from the three vertical dots icons by the section name, you can:

• Move the section up or down.
• Delete the section.

Add, edit, and delete a panel¶

To add a panel to your dashboard:

1. Click Add Panel in the top right corner of the dashboard.

2. Select any of the built-in, community, or your personal collection of panels from the Panel Gallery popup.

   

3. Configure the selected panel.

4. Click Done when complete, or Reset to clear all settings.

Dashboard settings¶

You can update dashboard settings by clicking on the relevant icon by the right of the Search panel (regex) bar.

All panels that are not locked will be updated following new dashboard settings, while locked panels follow their individual panel settings. You can toggle between the two settings by clicking on the lock icon in each panel.

Below we explore the actions you can perform to bulk update panel settings in the dashboard view.

1. Update the x-axis settings: You can update the x-axis for all unlocked panels, this can be useful to toggle between viewing metrics by step or epoch.

   1. Click on the first icon by the right of the Search panel (regex) bar.
   2. From the popup window, select the dimension to use for the x-axis.

   

2. Update the smoothing settings: You can add smoothing for all the unlocked panel which can be useful to focus on trends rather than small local fluctuations.

   1. Click on the second icon by the right of the Search panel (regex) bar.
   2. From the popup window, select the desired smoothing factor.

   

3. Update the additional dashboard settings

   Additional bulk actions for dashboard settings can be accessed by clicking on the third icon by the right of the Search panel (regex) bar. Choose to adjust one or more between:

   • Sample size: 50, 100, 500, or 1000 [default is 100].
   • Y-axis transformation: None, log_e, log_10, log scale [default is None].
   • Outliers: whether to Show or Ignore [default is Show].

Edit dashboard layout¶

You can interactively change the layout of the dashboard:

1. Click on Edit layout by the top right corner of the dashboard view.
2. Update the panel layout by either or both:
3. Drag and drop the panel in the desired location.
4. Change the panel's dimension by adjusting it from the bottom right corner.

Manage dashboard¶

The dashboard menu bar by the left of the pages tabs gives you access to high-level management functionalities for the dashboard.

Each action is explored in detail in the respective sections below.

Save, edit, delete, and update dashboard views¶

By default, the Panels page opens the "Auto Generated" dashboard view, created by Comet. You can navigate to another view by:

1. Click on the Dashboard view dropdown (set to "Auto Generated" by default).
2. Select the desired custom view from the dropdown.

To save a view:

1. Click Save View.
2. Save the view in the current view, or in a new view by selecting Save as a new view and giving it a name.
   Select Set as default view to make this the default.

3. Click Save.

   A notification confirming the save is displayed in the window banner and the view name is displayed in the Project menu bar. The view name is research in this example:

4. To abandon the changes you have made, click the view name, then click Discard.

If you make changes to this view and you wish to keep them:

1. Click Save View.
2. Select Save changes to the view.
3. Click Save.

You can also select a specific view to be the default view by clicking on the check icon. This will mark it as the default view and will be the one loaded by default whenever a user navigates to the project.

Perform more operations on the dashboard¶

The Options button in the dashboard menu bar allows you to:

• Share the dashboard view via URL (only for Public projects).
• Update the decimal precision [default is 3].
• Define whether to Auto Refresh the data, or decide to Refresh now.

You can add a view to a report by clicking Add to Report button on the top right corner of the dashboard menu bar.