Monitor Beaker Experiment

Finding the experiment ID

If no experiment ID is provided, find the most recent experiment:

# List experiments in a workspace (e.g., ai2/open-instruct-dev)
beaker workspace experiments ai2/open-instruct-dev 2>&1 | head -10

Common workspaces:

• •ai2/open-instruct-dev - Development experiments
• •ai2/lm-eval - Evaluation experiments
• •ai2/tulu-3-dev - Tulu development

Monitoring an experiment

1. •Get the experiment status:

beaker experiment get <experiment-id> --format json | jq '.[0] | {id, name, status: .jobs[0].status}'

1. •

   Check the status fields:

   • •status.current: "scheduled", "starting", "running", "succeeded", "failed", "canceled"
   • •status.exitCode: Exit code (0 = success, non-zero = failure)
   • •status.started / status.exited: Timestamps
2. •

   If still running, wait 30 seconds and check again

3. •

   When complete:

   • •If exitCode is 0: Report success
   • •If exitCode is non-zero: Fetch and display logs
4. •

   Continue monitoring until the experiment finishes or the user asks to stop

Useful commands

# Check status (compact)
beaker experiment get <id> --format json | jq '.[0].jobs[0].status.current'

# Get logs on failure
beaker experiment logs <id>

# Get logs with tail (last N lines)
beaker experiment logs <id> 2>&1 | tail -100

# Open in browser
echo "https://beaker.org/ex/<id>"