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Summary

Evaluation runs had no duration anywhere in Studio's Intake eval views — "how long did this eval take" could not be answered from any list. This records two wall-clock durations as Evaluation metadata at publish time (eval_duration_sec, publish_duration_sec) and surfaces them across the eval list, the agent jobs list, and both eval job detail panels. It also fixes a live display bug: the job detail panel derived elapsed time from updated_at − created_at, but a PlatformJob row is written only at create and on rerun — never on a status transition — so every completed job rendered ~0s.

Changes

Backend — plugins/nemo-evaluator/src/nemo_evaluator/jobs/publication.py

  • _publish now keeps the Evaluation it already retrieves, times publish_to_intake with time.monotonic(), and PATCHes two string-encoded seconds keys onto the Evaluation's metadata.
  • The stamp merges with existing metadata. PATCH replaces the metadata dict wholesale (services/intake/.../experiments/endpoints.py:603), so a blind write would drop producer keys such as eval_config_fileset.
  • Read, merge, and PATCH sit inside one try/except that logs and continues. Every caller-side handler routes through fail(), which raises when spec.required (the default), so an escaping exception would report a fully successful publish as a failed job.
  • The PATCH is outside the timed span, so publish_duration_sec does not measure our own write.
  • eval_duration_sec comes from result.metadata.duration_sec, falling back to now − started_at. The fallback covers the dataset-driven path, whose adapted result carries only overcounts by including
    seconds keys onto the Eva
  • The stamp merges with eplaces the metadata dict
    wholesale (services/intats.py:603), so a blind
    write would drop producer_fileset`.
  • Read, merge, and PATCH sit inside one try/except that logs and continues. Every caller-side handler routes through fail(), which raises when
    spec.required (the defation would report a fullysuccessful publish as a failed job.
  • The PATCH is outside the timed span, so publish_duration_sec does not measure our own write.
  • eval_duration_sec comes from result.metadata.duration_sec, falling back to now − started_at. The fallback covers the dataset-driven path, whose adapted result carries only a start time; it slightly overcounts by including result-bundle persistence.

Studio

  • api/evaluation/utils.ts: new EVAL_DURATION_METADATA_KEY and evalDurationMs, which guards with Number.isFinite since metadata values are strings server-side.
  • ExperimentDataView: Duration column beside Created, enableSorting: false (metadata sorts lexically server-side, and the list pages at 100, so a client-side sort would lie across pages). eval_duration_sec is excluded from the dynamic metadata columns so it does not render twice; publish_duration_sec deliberately falls through to a dynamic column, which is what surfaces publish latency.
  • JobsTable: Duration column — live counter while running, recorded duration
    once published, em dash ft publishing.
  • AgentEvaluationDetailRoute and DetailsPanel: duration beside the status
    badge for terminal jobs, gated on the job havingpublished. Fetching by name skips theagent_name` filter, so these surface the duration as soon as publish completes.
  • AgentEvaluationDetailRoute: removed the "Updated" row. It rendered job.updated_at as a relative time, which reads as "last changed" but is really create time — the same bogus field behind the ~0s bug. Deleted rather
    than corrected because thnal timestamp to put there.

No entity migration, no refresh-openapi, no update-sdk — Evaluation metadata is free-form and every type used is already generated.

Type of Change

  • Code change (featur
  • Code change with documentation updates
  • Documentation only
  • Contributor tooling or automation
  • CI, build, or test infrastructure

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests covefication:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Documentation updated for user-visible behavior
  • Documentation not a no user-facing docdescribes eval job timing; this surfaces a new value in existing views and adds no CLI flag, config key, or API field.

Two tests added to plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/jobs/test_publication.py, both verified by mutation rather than by passing alone:

  • test_durations_are_stamped_without_dropping_existing_metadata — replacing
    the merge with a blank di: 'eval_config_fileset'`.
  • test_a_failed_duration_stamp_does_not_fail_the_publish — removing the try/except fails it with PublicationFailedError.

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  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included

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Command Result
uv run --frozen pytest plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests --ignore=plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/integration -q 823 passed
`uv run ruff check plugchecks passed
uv run ruff format --check (both touched Python files) 2 files already formatted
uv run --frozen ty cheplugins/nemo-evaluator/src/nemo_evaluator/jobs/publication.py All checks passed
`pnpm --filter nemo-stu
pnpm lint (from web/) passed, --max-warnings 0
pnpm --filter nemo-studio-ui test <3 touched specs> 3 files, 13 tests passed

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  • New Features

    • Added evaluation and publication duration tracking for completed evaluations.
    • Running jobs now show live elapsed time, while completed jobs display recorded duration.
    • Added Duration columns to experiment and job tables.
    • Added duration details to job and evaluation views.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Duration-recording issues no longer cause successful publications to fail.
    • Existing evaluation metadata is preserved when duration information is added.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Drulea <odrulea@nvidia.com>
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The evaluator records evaluation and publication durations in Evaluation metadata. Studio converts this metadata to milliseconds and displays completed-job durations across experiment, job, and evaluation views while preserving live timing for active jobs.

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Evaluation duration tracking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Publication duration recording
plugins/nemo-evaluator/src/nemo_evaluator/jobs/publication.py, plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/jobs/test_publication.py
The publisher records evaluation and publication durations, preserves existing metadata, and ignores metadata patch failures after successful publication. Tests cover these behaviors.
Duration metadata contract and experiment column
web/packages/studio/src/api/evaluation/utils.ts, web/packages/studio/src/components/dataViews/ExperimentDataView/index.tsx
Studio converts valid evaluation duration metadata from seconds to milliseconds. Experiment data views show a dedicated Duration column and exclude the reserved metadata key from generated columns.
Completed job duration views
web/packages/studio/src/components/evaluation/Jobs/DetailsPanel.tsx, web/packages/studio/src/routes/agents/AgentDetailRoute/evaluations/JobsTable.tsx, web/packages/studio/src/routes/agents/AgentEvaluationsRoute/AgentEvaluationDetailRoute.tsx
Terminal jobs display published evaluation duration. Active jobs display live elapsed time. The evaluation detail view removes the Updated timestamp.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant _publish
  participant Intake
  participant EvaluationsAPI
  participant Studio
  _publish->>Intake: publish evaluation results
  Intake-->>_publish: publication result
  _publish->>EvaluationsAPI: patch duration metadata
  EvaluationsAPI-->>Studio: published evaluation metadata
  Studio->>Studio: format and display completed-job duration
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Actionable comments posted: 3

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web/packages/studio/src/routes/agents/AgentDetailRoute/evaluations/JobsTable.tsx (1)

30-30: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Declare explicit component props.

Replace the inline object contract with a named DurationCellProps interface.

As per coding guidelines: “Prefer interface over type for object shapes and contracts” and “Define explicit props interfaces for all components.”

Proposed fix
+interface DurationCellProps {
+  row: EvalJobRow;
+  durationMs?: number;
+}
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-const DurationCell: FC<{ row: EvalJobRow; durationMs?: number }> = ({ row, durationMs }) => {
+const DurationCell: FC<DurationCellProps> = ({ row, durationMs }) => {
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In `@plugins/nemo-evaluator/src/nemo_evaluator/jobs/publication.py`:
- Around line 110-118: Compute and store _eval_duration_sec(result) before
calling publish_to_intake, then pass that saved duration into _record_durations
so started_at-only results exclude publication time. Add an exact regression
test covering the started_at fallback path and verifying the recorded evaluation
duration is captured before publication.

In `@web/packages/studio/src/api/evaluation/utils.ts`:
- Around line 82-85: Update evalDurationMs to return undefined when the duration
metadata is blank or whitespace-only, negative, or not a finite number; only
convert nonblank, nonnegative finite values from seconds to milliseconds.

In
`@web/packages/studio/src/routes/agents/AgentDetailRoute/evaluations/JobsTable.tsx`:
- Around line 31-34: Update the useLiveSeconds call in the JobsTable row
rendering to explicitly disable the timer when isTerminal is true, using its
enabled option while preserving the existing startDate behavior for active rows.

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In
`@web/packages/studio/src/routes/agents/AgentDetailRoute/evaluations/JobsTable.tsx`:
- Line 30: Define a named DurationCellProps interface for the row and durationMs
properties, then update the DurationCell component to use that interface instead
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Signed-off-by: Octavian Drulea <odrulea@nvidia.com>
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