[Logging] add time stamp logging + test

apps/grpo/main.py

@@ -334,8 +334,7 @@ async def main(cfg: DictConfig):
 
     # initialize before spawning services
     metric_logging_cfg = cfg.get("metric_logging", {"console": {"log_per_rank": False}})
-    mlogger = await get_or_create_metric_logger()
-    await mlogger.init_backends.call_one(metric_logging_cfg)
+    mlogger = await get_or_create_metric_logger(actor_name="Controller")
 
     # ---- Setup services ---- #
     await ts.initialize(strategy=ts.ControllerStorageVolumes())
@@ -363,6 +362,9 @@ async def main(cfg: DictConfig):
         ),
     )
 
+    # Call after services are initialized
+    await mlogger.init_backends.call_one(metric_logging_cfg)
+
     print("All services initialized successfully!")
 
     # ---- Core RL loops ---- #

apps/grpo/qwen3_1_7b.yaml

@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ rollout_threads: 1   # Recommended to set equal to policy.num_replicas
 
 
 # Observability configuration
+# logging_mode: global_reduce, per_rank_reduce, per_rank_no_reduce
 metric_logging:
   wandb:
     project: "grpo-training"
     group: "grpo_exp_${oc.env:USER}"
-    reduce_across_ranks: True
+    logging_mode: "global_reduce"
+    per_rank_share_run: False
   console:
-    reduce_across_ranks: True
+    logging_mode: "global_reduce"
 
 # Dataset configuration
 dataset:

apps/grpo/qwen3_32b.yaml

@@ -14,13 +14,15 @@ off_by_n: 1 # Off by one by default
 rollout_threads: 1   # Recommended to set equal to policy.num_replicas
 
 # Observability configuration
+# logging_mode: global_reduce, per_rank_reduce, per_rank_no_reduce
 metric_logging:
   wandb:
     project: "grpo-training"
     group: "grpo_exp_${oc.env:USER}"
-    reduce_across_ranks: True
+    logging_mode: "global_reduce"
+    per_rank_share_run: False
   console:
-    reduce_across_ranks: True
+    logging_mode: "global_reduce"
 
 # Dataset configuration
 dataset:

apps/grpo/qwen3_8b.yaml

@@ -10,13 +10,15 @@ model: "Qwen/Qwen3-8B"
 off_by_n: 1 # Off by one by default
 
 # Observability configuration
+# logging_mode: global_reduce, per_rank_reduce, per_rank_no_reduce
 metric_logging:
   wandb:
     project: "grpo-training"
     group: "grpo_exp_${oc.env:USER}"
-    reduce_across_ranks: True
+    logging_mode: "global_reduce"
+    per_rank_share_run: False
   console:
-    reduce_across_ranks: True
+    logging_mode: "global_reduce"
 
 # Dataset configuration
 dataset:

apps/toy_rl/toy_metrics/main.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 from monarch.actor import current_rank, endpoint
 
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
+logging.getLogger("forge.observability.metrics").setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
 
 
 class TrainActor(ForgeActor):
@@ -82,31 +83,33 @@ async def main():
     group = f"grpo_exp_{int(time.time())}"
 
     # Config format: {backend_name: backend_config_dict}
-    # Each backend can specify reduce_across_ranks to control distributed logging behavior
     config = {
-        "console": {"reduce_across_ranks": True},
+        "console": {"logging_mode": "per_rank_reduce"},
         "wandb": {
-            "project": "my_project",
+            "project": "toy_metrics",
             "group": group,
-            "reduce_across_ranks": False,
-            # Only useful if NOT reduce_across_ranks.
-            "share_run_id": False,  # Share run ID across ranks -- Not recommended.
+            "logging_mode": "per_rank_no_reduce",
+            "per_rank_share_run": False,
         },
     }
 
     service_config = {"procs": 2, "num_replicas": 2, "with_gpus": False}
-    mlogger = await get_or_create_metric_logger()
-    await mlogger.init_backends.call_one(config)
+    mlogger = await get_or_create_metric_logger(actor_name="Controller")
 
     # Spawn services first (triggers registrations via provisioner hook)
     trainer = await TrainActor.options(**service_config).as_service()
     generator = await GeneratorActor.options(**service_config).as_service()
 
+    # Initialize after spawning services
+    await mlogger.init_backends.call_one(config)
+
     for i in range(3):
         print(f"\n=== Global Step {i} ===")
+        record_metric("main/global_step", 1, Reduce.MEAN)
         await trainer.train_step.fanout(i)
         for sub in range(3):
             await generator.generate_step.fanout(i, sub)
+            await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
         await mlogger.flush.call_one(i)
 
     # shutdown

apps/vllm/main.py

@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@
 
 async def run(cfg: DictConfig):
     metric_logging_cfg = cfg.get("metric_logging", {"console": {"log_per_rank": False}})
-    mlogger = await get_or_create_metric_logger()
-    await mlogger.init_backends.call_one(metric_logging_cfg)
+    mlogger = await get_or_create_metric_logger(actor_name="Controller")
 
     if (prompt := cfg.get("prompt")) is None:
         gd = cfg.policy.get("sampling_config", {}).get("guided_decoding", False)
@@ -37,6 +36,9 @@ async def run(cfg: DictConfig):
     print("Spawning service...")
     policy = await Policy.options(**cfg.services.policy).as_service(**cfg.policy)
 
+    # initialize after spawning services
+    await mlogger.init_backends.call_one(metric_logging_cfg)
+
     import time
 
     print("Requesting generation...")