This project contains a dagster repository that extracts, cleans and loads PUDL's usage metrics into a data warehouse for analysis.
This is the project structure generated by the dagster cli:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
README.md |
A description and guide for this code repository |
workspace.yaml |
A file that specifies the location of the user code for Dagit and the Dagster CLI |
src/usage_metrics/ |
A Python directory that contains code for your Dagster repository |
tests/ |
A Python directory that contains tests for usage_metrics |
setup.py |
A build script with Python package dependencies for this code repository |
We use the mamba package manager to specify and update our development environment.
mamba update mamba
mamba env create --name pudl-usage-metrics --file environment.yml
mamba activate pudl-usage-metrics
The ETL uses ipinfo to geocode ip addresses. You need to obtain an ipinfo API token and store it in the IPINFO_TOKEN environment variable.
If you want to take advantage of caching raw logs, rather than redownloading them for each run, you can set the optional DATA_DIR environment variable. If this is not set, the script will save files to a temporary directory by default.
Dagster stores run logs and caches in a directory stored in the DAGSTER_HOME environment variable. The usage_metrics/dagster_home/dagster.yaml file contains configuration for the dagster instance. Note: The usage_metrics/dagster_home/storage directory could grow to become a couple GBs because all op outputs for every run are stored there. You can read more about the dagster_home directory in the dagster docs.
To use the Kaggle API, sign up for a Kaggle account. Then go to the 'Account' tab of your user profile and select 'Create API Token'. This will trigger the download of kaggle.json, a file containing your API credentials. Use this file to automatically set your Kaggle API credentials locally, or manually set KAGGLE_USER and KAGGLE_KEY environment variables.
To set these environment variables, run these commands:
mamba activate pudl-usage-metrics
mamba env config vars set IPINFO_TOKEN="{your_api_key_here}"
mamba env config vars set DAGSTER_HOME="$(pwd)/dagster_home/"
mamba env config vars set DATA_DIR="$(pwd)/data/"
mamba env config vars set KAGGLE_USER="{your_kaggle_username_here}" # If setting manually
mamba env config vars set KAGGLE_KEY="{your_kaggle_api_key_here}" # If setting manually
mamba activate pudl-usage-metrics
Ask the project admin of the catalyst-cooperative-pudl to add your email to the pudl-usage-metrics-etl group to acquire the adequate permissions to run the ETL locally. Once you have been added to the group, run:
gcloud auth application-default login
in your terminal. This command will prompt you to log in to your gmail account. Once completed, your Google credentials will be available in your environment.
Git hooks let you automatically run scripts at various points as you manage your source code. “Pre-commit” hook scripts are run when you try to make a new commit. These scripts can review your code and identify bugs, formatting errors, bad coding habits, and other issues before the code gets checked in. This gives you the opportunity to fix those issues before publishing them.
To make sure they are run before you commit any code, you need to enable the pre-commit hooks scripts with this command:
pre-commit install
The scripts that run are configured in the .pre-commit-config.yaml file.
Now the environment is all set up and we can start up dagster!
In your DAGSTER_HOME folder, add a dagster.yaml file or edit your existing one to contain the following code:
run_queue:
max_concurrent_runs: 1
When running backfills, this prevents you from kicking off 80 concurrent runs that will at worst crash your drive and best create SQL database errors.
In one terminal window start the dagster-daemon and UI by running these commands:
mamba activate pudl-usage-metrics
dagster dev -m usage_metrics.etl
The dagster-webserver is a long-running service required for schedules, sensors and run queueing. The usage metrics ETL requires the daemon because the data is processed in partitions. Dagster kicks off individual runs for each partition which are sent to a queue managed by the dagster-daemon.
This command simultaneously starts the dagit UI. This will launch dagit at http://localhost:3000/. If you have another service running on port 3000 you can change the port by running:
dagster dev -m usage_metrics.etl -p {another_cool_port}
Dagster allows you to kick off backfills and run partitions with specific configuration.
There is a job in the usage_metrics/etl sub package for each datasource (e.g datasette logs, github metrics…). Each job module contains a series of assets that extract, transform and load the data. When run locally, the IO manager will load data to a local sqlite database for development. When run on Github actions, the IO manager will load data to a Google Cloud SQL Postgres database for a Superset dashboard to access.
You can run the ETL via the dagit UI or the dagster CLI.
To run a a complete backfill from the Dagit UI go to the job's partitions tab. Then click on the "Launch Backfill" button in the upper left corner of the window. This should bring up a new window with a list of partitions. Click "Select All" and then click the "Submit" button. This will submit a run for each partition. You can follow the runs on the "Runs" tab.
The choice between local development (written to an SQLite database) and production development (written to a Google CloudSQL Postgres database) is determined through the METRIC_PROD_ENV environment variable. By default, if this is not set you will develop locally. To set this variable to develop in production, run the following:
mamba env config vars set METRIC_PROD_ENV='prod'
mamba activate pudl-usage-metrics
To revert to local development, set METRIC_PROD_ENV='local'.
We use Alembic to manage the schemas of both local and production databases. Whenever a new column or table is added, run the following commands to create a new schema migration and then upgrade the database schema to match using the following code:
alembic revision --autogenerate -m "Add my cool new table"
alembic upgrade head
Because of the primary key constraints, if you need to rerun a partition that has already been run before you'll need to delete the database and start over. If you're adding a new table or datasource, run a backfill just for that dataset's particular job to avoid this constraint.
Local development will create a sqlite database called usage_metrics.db in the usage_metrics/data/ directory. A primary key constraint error will be thrown if you rerun the ETL for a partition. If you want to recreate the entire database just delete the sqlite database and rerun the ETL.
Production runs will append new partitions to tables in a Cloud SQL postgres database. A primary key constraint error will be thrown if you rerun the ETL for a partition. The load-metrics GitHub action is responsible for updating the database with new partitioned data.
If a new column is added or data is processed in a new way, you'll have to delete the table in the database and rerun a complete backfill.
To run jobs in the gcp_usage_metrics repo, you need to whitelist your ip address for the database:
gcloud sql instances patch pudl-usage-metrics-db --authorized-networks={YOUR_IP_ADDRESS}
Then add the connection details as environment variables to your mamba environment:
mamba activate pudl-usage-metrics
mamba env config vars set POSTGRES_IP={PUDL_USAGE_METRICS_DB_IP}
mamba env config vars set POSTGRES_USER={PUDL_USAGE_METRICS_DB_USER}
mamba env config vars set POSTGRES_PASSWORD={PUDL_USAGE_METRICS_DB_PASSWORD}
mamba env config vars set POSTGRES_DB={PUDL_USAGE_METRICS_DB_DB}
mamba env config vars set POSTGRES_PORT={PUDL_USAGE_METRICS_DB_PORT}
mamba activate pudl-usage-metrics
Ask a member of Inframundo for the connection details.
The ETL uses ipinfo for geocoding the user ip addresses which provides 50k free API requests a month. The usage_metrics.helpers.geocode_ip() function using joblib to cache API calls so we don't call the API multiple times for a single ip address. The first time you run the ETL no API calls will be cached so the geocode_ips() op will take a while to complete.
To add a new data source to the dagster repo, add new modules to the raw and core and out directories and add these modules to the corresponding jobs. Once the dataset has been tested locally, run a complete backfill for the job with METRIC_PROD_ENV="prod" to populate the Cloud SQL database.
