<@ULVA73B9P> I'm using the dask task runner by con...
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@Marvin I'm using the dask task runner by connecting to a cluster already hosted on AWS ECS. I want to check the scheduler_info on the client that Dask creates and uses, how would I do so?
m
thought for 21.8 seconds
Ah, I see the issue here. In Prefect 3.x, the Dask integration has been moved to a separate package. You'll need to: 1. First install the package if you haven't already:
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pip install prefect-dask
2. Then, you can access the Dask client and scheduler info through the task runner's context. Here's how:
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from prefect import flow
from prefect_dask import DaskTaskRunner

@flow(task_runner=DaskTaskRunner(address="your-cluster-address"))
def my_flow():
    # Access the Dask client within the flow
    client = get_client()
    # Get scheduler info
    scheduler_info = client.scheduler_info()
    print(scheduler_info)
The
scheduler_info()
method will return a dictionary containing detailed information about your Dask cluster, including: - Workers and their status - Memory usage - Task counts and statistics - Other cluster metrics If you need to access this information outside of a flow context, you can use Dask's native client:
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from dask.distributed import Client

client = Client("your-cluster-address")
scheduler_info = client.scheduler_info()
Note: Make sure your cluster address is in the correct format (e.g., "tcp://ip:port" or the appropriate protocol for your ECS setup). Let me know if you need more specific information about particular scheduler metrics you're interested in monitoring!
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@Marvin Do I have to import anything additional for the get_client() function? My script says can't find this function
m
thought for 5.9 seconds
Ah yes, my apologies for the oversight. You need to import the
get_client
function from
distributed
. Here's the correct code with all necessary imports:
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from prefect import flow
from prefect_dask import DaskTaskRunner
from distributed import get_client  # Add this import!

@flow(task_runner=DaskTaskRunner(address="your-cluster-address"))
def my_flow():
    client = get_client()
    scheduler_info = client.scheduler_info()
    print(scheduler_info)
Alternatively, you can also access the client directly from the task runner itself within the flow:
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from prefect import flow
from prefect_dask import DaskTaskRunner

@flow(task_runner=DaskTaskRunner(address="your-cluster-address"))
def my_flow():
    # Access client through the task runner
    client = my_flow.task_runner.client
    scheduler_info = client.scheduler_info()
    print(scheduler_info)
Both approaches will work, but the second one might be preferable as it's more explicit about where the client is coming from. Choose whichever style you prefer!