The point of the alias is for better visibility in the Experiment Manager. Check the screenshots above for what it looks like in the UI. Essentially, setting an Alias makes sure the task that is getting the dataset automatically logs the ID that it gets using Dataset.get() . The reason being that if you later on look back to your experiment, you can also see what dataset was .get() 't back then.

ExuberantBat52 When you still get the log messages, where did you specify the alias? Because if that's true, we might have a bug on our hands 🧐