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Inspect Datum

Learn how to inspect a datum using the pachctl inspect datum command.

May 30, 2023

Pachyderm stores information about each datum that a pipeline processes, including timing information, size information, and /pfs snapshots. You can view these statistics by running the pachctl inspect datum command (or its language client equivalents).

In particular, Pachyderm provides the following information for each datum processed by your pipelines:

Use the pachctl list datum <pipeline>@<job ID> to retrieve the list of datums processed by a given job, and pick the datum ID you want to inspect. That information can be useful when troubleshooting a failed job.