Notification when workflow is done Completed

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  Jason Cerrato

  • September 16, 2022 16:29
  • Official comment

  Hi all,

  We have implemented a workflow submission email notification feature. You can read more about it here: https://terra.bio/new-in-terra-get-email-notifications-for-your-workflow-status/

  Thank you all for your input and for helping to make Terra a better platform!

  Kind regards,

  Jason

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  Jason Cerrato

  • February 27, 2020 20:27

  Hi Abarbera,

  Thank you for your request. I've created a ticket for our engineers to take a look at for consideration.

  Kind regards,

  Jason

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  Laura Egolf

  • January 21, 2021 19:24

  Hi, has a feature like this been added? It would be useful to receive an email notification when a task finishes (whether or not it failed). Thanks!

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  Jason Cerrato

  • January 22, 2021 13:57

  Hi Laura Egolf,

  Thank you for writing in. This has not yet been built but I will inform the appropriate team of your interest. I will also be happy to follow up in this thread should the feature get built!

  Kind regards,

  Jason

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  Andrew Davidson

  • March 13, 2021 22:58

  when I run bash scripts on computers at my univ, I use the following to receive txt message when my script completes

  echo "$host data is up $dateStamp ${@:2} " | mail 83186626322@txt.att.net

  I wonder if this would work in a workflow on terra. I am a newbie and do not know enough about workflows to test this

  Part of the trick is you want this to run when the workflow stops. that could be because of error, crash, or successful completion. 

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  Jason Cerrato

  • March 15, 2021 16:38

  Hi Andrew Davidson,

  Thanks for writing in! Let me check with one of our workflow engineers to get their opinion on whether this would work in a Terra-submitted workflow.

  Kind regards,

  Jason

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  Jason Cerrato

  • March 16, 2021 21:10

  Hi Andrew Davidson,

  It looks like this solution might work, but it would require testing. One of our engineers was able to confirm that mail wasn't installed by default on their Debian Google VM, so you may need to make sure that the Docker you use for your task(s) has mail installed. Then, you would need to confirm that it would work as expected on the Google VM in a workflow submission. However, even if both of these confirmations were to happen, the solution would still only work in specific cases.

  To run the command in a workflow you would need to add it to your WDL - likely as the last command in the last task of the workflow. However, WDL doesn’t have a try-else-finally mechanism that will run a final command if previous commands/tasks fail. As such your last command would only run in cases where the entire workflow finished successfully, which may not be as useful as you would like it to be.

  One of our engineers did create a WDL that will monitor a submission and can be set up to send an email or call a webhook when the base submission is done, regardless of success/failure. I can give you more details about their solution if you're interested, though if you are new to Terra and submitting workflows it may prove a little challenging to get it situated the way you want. Note too that it can't be considered a robust, platform-supported solution. 

  The ideal solution would definitely be the implementation of a platform-level feature for monitoring. I'm going to flag up this continued interest with our development team so they can take it into consideration, and I'll be happy to follow up in this thread with any updates.

  If you have any further questions or concerns, please let us know!

  Kind regards,

  Jason

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