Zed lake log detail in pool summary page (e.g., number of updates)

[SoftTools59654]

Hi

The number of updates to a pool's data

When a pool is updated no matter how many times it is updated. No information about the updates is displayed. I think an option of the update date or displaying the list of updates from the number of new data or displaying the last update is also a suitable option next to Timestamp.

[philrz]

Thanks @SoftTools59654! When you speak of "Timestamp" I assume you're speaking about this area on the Pool Summary page as shown in the attached screenshot.

If so, indeed, you make a great point. I'd not noticed until you pointed it out that the Timestamp value reflects the initial pool creation and there's no metadata about "time of last update" or the other things you suggested.

We've recognized for a while that we're not yet surfacing details from the Zed lake log in Zui. I'm not sure if you've looked at the log from the CLI using the zed command (these docs describe it in more detail), but the demo video for the recently-added Preview & Load feature in Zui shows where entries in the commit log can be customized during data load and then shows them being viewed from the CLI.

It would be helpful if you were to familiarize yourself with what's already in the Zed log and express what more you might like to see. Right now it's fairly low-level and focused on "commits" (i.e., which author made a change, when it happened, and a customized commit message) and not so much on the data contents (e.g., the number of values that may have been loaded via a commit). The zed load docs describe the "arbitrary metadata" that an app like Zui could attach to commits and therefore present later to the user. So it would help to know which specific things you'd find most useful.