How to set the name of the worker?

[yanxiu0614]

Issues

Thank you very much for your work. I am using dramatiq_dashboard，it is very good,but it is very difficult to understand that worker name is a bunch of meaningless letters.

As we know, there will always be an accident. However I don't know what I can do at that time. Can you tell me how to set name of worker and which tasks each worker is running?

Thank you.

[Bogdanp]

This isn't possible right now. One thing we could do in the future is expose an environment variable to help augment this line:

https://github.com/Bogdanp/dramatiq/blob/master/dramatiq/brokers/redis.py#L104

basically, we could turn it into

self.broker_id = getenv("dramatiq_broker_id_prefix", "") + str(uuid4())

or maybe even just

self.broker_id = socket.gethostname() + "_" + str(uuid4())

or some combination of both. If you're willing to make that PR to Dramatiq, I'd happily accept it. Make sure you read the CONTRIBUTING.md document first.