🛠️Manage Workspaces

Workspaces Overview

Workspaces are where you will do most of your development and testing work. You can see all of your Workspaces in a given Project in the Workspaces tab.

Hardware Requirements & Idle Timeout

Workspaces only consume credits while they are running, and you can see the estimated hourly cost by clicking on the gear icon next to the Workspace name. This is also where you can update the Workspace hardware requirements. The hardware requirements will update the next time you open a Workspace.

You can freely change the hardware requirements for a Workspace, but be aware that if you try to run a process without enough processing power it may be very slow or crash. But one major benefit of the flexibility of these requirements is that you can reduce them for testing and development, then increase them if you need to run a full pipeline or complex analysis.

Although Workspaces don't cost anything when they're not running, data storage is inexpensive but will still be charged.

In the same configuration menu, you can select a checkbox to disable the automatic idle timeout for that Workspace. Checking the box means that if you leave a Workspace open but idle (for instance leaving it running overnight) we will not shut it down for you. The default behavior is that if we detect a Workspace is idle and not in use for some time, we will save a Snapshot and stop the workspace to avoid unnecessary costs to you.

Base Image

The base image you choose when creating a Workspace will determine what that Workspace has installed by default. For instance, choosing Conda will get you Python 3 and choosing Biomni will get you the Biomni AI agent pre-installed. There is currently not a way to change or see the base image once a Workspace has been created.

Workspace Options & Archiving

In the 3 dots menu to the right of a Workspace name, there are more actions you can take with an existing Workspace, such as duplicating, restoring from a previous Snapshot, Force Stop, and Archiving.

Force Stop

Force stop is a "break glass in emergency" sort of item. This will NOT change any back end processes, but will update the front end state so your Workspace is not stuck in a "starting" or "scheduling" state. However please use caution, as this can cause unintended issues if used incorrectly. If you select the force stop option when a Workspace is just slow to start, rather than stuck, it may complete invisibly in the background and remain on until it is either manually stopped by an engineer or it htis the idle shutdown timer.

Force Stop is a last resort option, please do not force stop a Workspace unless you are reasonably certain it is stuck in a "Scheduling" state and will not start.

Archive

If you are certain you're done with a Workspace and want to clear it from your Workspace list, you can archive it. However be aware that this is a UI change ONLY and will NOT clear any data from that Workspace.

WARNING: Archiving a Workspace will NOT delete any data that is in that Workspace! If you archive a Workspace with data in it, you will still be charged for data storage. If you think you have accidentally done this, please contact Ontologic support.