guidance_report.json from default flow is very large

[mgoin]

After running the default flow on Mistral in vLLM, there is a large (>100MB) report json in the directory I ran the commands. This seems quite heavy-weight, especially for a json file.

Instead, I would expect there to be a light csv or something summarizing the report that is displayed in the terminal so I can easily load my results into a spreadsheet or pandas dataframe for post-processing.

Commands:

vllm serve mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3
guidellm --target "http://localhost:8000/v1" --model mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3

Directory output:

guidellm git:(main) ll
total 114M
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mgoin mgoin 3.4K Aug 27 15:56 CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mgoin mgoin 2.4K Aug 27 15:56 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mgoin mgoin 7.1K Aug 27 15:56 DEVELOPING.md
drwxrwxr-x 4 mgoin mgoin   95 Aug 27 15:56 docs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mgoin mgoin 114M Aug 27 16:19 guidance_report.json <<
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mgoin mgoin  12K Aug 27 15:56 LICENSE
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mgoin mgoin   16 Aug 27 15:56 MANIFEST.in
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mgoin mgoin 7.3K Aug 27 15:56 pyproject.toml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mgoin mgoin  11K Aug 27 15:56 README.md
drwxrwxr-x 4 mgoin mgoin   59 Aug 27 15:56 src
drwxrwxr-x 6 mgoin mgoin  104 Aug 27 15:56 tests
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mgoin mgoin 1.7K Aug 27 15:56 tox.ini
drwxrwxr-x 2 mgoin mgoin   66 Aug 27 15:56 utils

[markurtz]

We have opened a ticket to adjust how we handle this and trim what we save. For now, though, I've defaulted it not to save the output file and instead rely on the stdout.

[mgoin]

Is there a way to output the results into a simple table or csv for pasting into a spreadsheet?

[markurtz]

Yes, printing out to CSV will be included as part of that work

[markurtz]

Fixing the original complaint about the size with #91. There will be a separate task for general report output types which will be covered by a separate issue