Is there a way from within a flyte job to update some kind of status on the flyte UI? It would be nice to get status messages for a running task without needing to check logs.

What kind of status message? do you mean the task log on the UI?

something like that? It currently will show error logs if the task errored out but would it be possible to get it to show arbitrary messages sent by an rpc/api or smth? Or in the execution panel.

I think you can write the message to flyte deck, but you still need to check the task’s log in cloudwatch or k8s dashboard.

👀 can the flyte deck update while the task is running?

yes, deck is created when task is running. https://docs.flyte.org/projects/cookbook/en/stable/auto/core/flyte_basics/deck.html

oh but the deck UI won't show up until the task is completed right? I just tried it

Yes