Feature request: Redirect TALP output to file

[jgraciahlrs]

TALP reports are currently written to STDOUT (presumably). In many cases this adds noise and may disturb existing workflows which expect certain data in certain positions of the output.

I suggest to add an option to redirect TALP output to a file. (Personally, I like mpiP's approach to construct the filename.)

[vlopezh]

This feature is already implemented, although not yet documented. Our documentation is lagging behind lately due to lack of time.

You can see the flag executing dlb -h:

DLB is configured by setting these flags in the DLB_ARGS environment variable.
Possible options are listed below:

Option                  Current value   Possible value (type) / [choice] / {val1:val2}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
--talp-output-file:			(path)

Or in the extended help dlb -hh:

--talp-output-file:			(path)
    Write TALP metrics to a file. If this option is not provided,
    the output is printed to stderr.
    Accepted formats: *.json, *.xml, *.csv. Any other for plain text.

Let us know if this flag covers your needs.

[jgraciahlrs]

Cool! This seems to be exactly what I am looking for.

This does not seem to be available in v3.2, though. I guess it is on the main branch. Please confirm and I will test it.

[vlopezh]

Yes, this was not available in the last release, but it is in the main branch.