Manage workspace, section, and panel settings - Weights & Biases Documentation

A workspace page has three different setting levels: workspaces, sections, and panels. Workspace settings apply to the entire workspace. Section settings apply to all panels within a section. Panel settings apply to individual panels. This page describes how to configure each level of settings so that you can control your workspace’s layout, organize panels, and customize how data is displayed. The following sections describe each setting level in turn.

Workspace settings

Workspace settings apply to all sections and all panels within those sections. You can edit two types of workspace settings: Workspace layout and Line plots. Workspace layouts determine the structure of the workspace, while Line plots settings control the default settings for line plots in the workspace. To edit settings that apply to the overall structure of this workspace:

Navigate to your project workspace.
Click the gear icon next to the New report button to view the workspace settings.
Choose Workspace layout to change the workspace’s layout, or choose Line plots to configure default settings for line plots in the workspace.

The workspace settings panel opens, where you can apply the changes described in the following sections.

After customizing your workspace, you can use workspace templates to create new workspaces with the same settings. Refer to Workspace templates.

Workspace layout options

Configure a workspace’s layout to define the overall structure of the workspace. This includes sectioning logic and panel organization.

The workspace layout options page shows whether the workspace generates panels automatically or manually. To adjust a workspace’s panel generation mode, refer to Panels. This table describes each workspace layout option.

Workspace setting	Description
Hide empty sections during search	Hide sections that don’t contain any panels when searching for a panel.
Sort panels alphabetically	Sort panels in your workspaces alphabetically.
Section organization	Remove all existing sections and panels and repopulate them with new section names. Groups the newly populated sections either by first or last prefix.

W&B suggests that you organize sections by grouping the first prefix rather than grouping by the last prefix. Grouping by the first prefix can result in fewer sections and better performance.

Line plots options

Set global defaults and custom rules for line plots in a workspace by modifying the Line plots workspace settings.

You can edit two main settings within Line plots settings: Data and Display preferences. The Data tab contains the following settings:

Line plot setting	Description
X axis	The scale of the x-axis in line plots. The x-axis is set to Step by default. See the following table for the list of x-axis options.
Range	Minimum and maximum settings to display for the x-axis.
Smoothing	Change the smoothing on the line plot. For more information about smoothing, see Smooth line plots.
Outliers	Rescale to exclude outliers from the default plot min and max scale.
Point aggregation method	Improve data visualization accuracy and performance. For more information, see Point aggregation.
Max number of runs or groups	Limit the number of runs or groups displayed on the line plot.

Besides Step, the x-axis supports the following options:

X axis option	Description
Relative Time (Wall)	Timestamp since the process starts. For example, suppose you start a run and resume that run the next day. If you then log something, the recorded point is 24 hours.
Relative Time (Process)	Timestamp inside the running process. For example, suppose you start a run and let it continue for 10 seconds. The next day you resume that run. The point is recorded as 10 seconds.
Wall Time	Minutes elapsed since the start of the first run on the graph.
Step	Increments each time you call `wandb.Run.log()`.

For information about how to edit an individual line plot, see Edit line panel settings in Line plots.

Within the Display preferences tab, you can toggle the following settings:

Display preference	Description
Remove legends from all panels	Remove the panel’s legend.
Display colored run names in tooltips	Show the runs as colored text within the tooltip.
Only show highlighted run in companion chart tooltip	Display only highlighted runs in chart tooltip.
Number of runs shown in tooltips	Display the number of runs in the tooltip.
Display full run names on the primary chart tooltip	Display the full name of the run in the chart tooltip.

Section settings

Section settings apply to all panels within that section. Within a workspace section you can sort panels, rearrange panels, and rename the section name. To modify section settings, select the action () menu in the upper right corner of a section.

From the dropdown, you can edit the following settings that apply to the entire section:

Section setting	Description
Rename a section	Rename the name of the section.
Sort panels A-Z	Sort panels within a section alphabetically.
Rearrange panels	Select and drag a panel within a section to manually order your panels.

The following animation demonstrates how to rearrange panels within a section:

Besides the settings described in the preceding table, you can also edit how sections appear in your workspaces such as Add section below, Add section above, Delete section, and Add section to report.

Panel settings

Customize an individual panel’s settings to compare multiple lines on the same plot, calculate custom axes, rename labels, and more. To edit a panel’s settings:

Hover over the panel you want to edit.
Select the pencil icon that appears.

Within the modal that appears, you can edit settings related to the panel’s data, display preferences, and more.

Your changes apply to that panel only and take effect when you save them. For a complete list of settings you can apply to a panel, see Edit line panel settings.

​Workspace settings

​Workspace layout options

​Line plots options

​Section settings

​Panel settings

Workspace settings

Workspace layout options

Line plots options

Section settings

Panel settings