Systems and methods herein describe accessing a data processing pipeline, causing presentation of the data processing pipeline on a graphical user interface of a computing device, receiving a selection of a first user interface element within the graphical user interface, generating a datafile representing the data processing pipeline, submitting the datafile and an application to a software framework using an application programming interface, receiving, from the application, the generated datasets, applying the data operations the data processing pipeline, collecting performance data metrics from the data processing pipeline, and dynamically updating the graphical user interface with the collected performance data metrics.