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Can't wait to try this out! I always wanted the ability to see the tasks that are currently running or waiting.

In the screenshots I can see that tasks have descriptive names. Does anybody know how to set the name for a task? tokio::spawn doesn't take a name parameter. Does it require `tracing`?

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Looks like they have added a builder for tokio::task[1] that will allow you to set a name. It's unstable at the moment so you would need to set the tokio_unstable cfg flag.

[1]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/master/tokio/src/task...

Exactly, this is the first release of Tokio Console. We will keep adding functionality over time, which will help inform the APIs in Tokio to better provide the necessary instrumentation.

I expect the new APIs like the task builder will stabilize (no longer require the `tokio_unstable` flag) over the course of 2022.

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