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# Pipeline option patterns

The samples on this page show you common pipeline configurations. For more information about pipeline configuration options, see [Creating a pipeline]({{ site.baseurl }}/documentation/programming-guide/#creating-a-pipeline) and [Configuring pipeline options]({{ site.baseurl }}/documentation/programming-guide/#configuring-pipeline-options).

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## Retroactively logging runtime parameters

Use the `ValueProvider` interface to access runtime parameters after completing a pipeline job.

You can use the `ValueProvider` interface to pass runtime parameters to your pipeline, but you can only log the parameters from within the the Beam DAG. A solution is to add a pipeline [branch]({{ site.baseurl }}/documentation/programming-guide/#applying-transforms) with a `DoFn` that processes a placeholder value and then logs the runtime parameters:

```java
{% github_sample /apache/beam/blob/master/examples/java/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/examples/snippets/Snippets.java tag:AccessingValueProviderInfoAfterRunSnip1
%}
```

```py
{% github_sample /apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples/snippets/snippets.py tag:AccessingValueProviderInfoAfterRunSnip1
%}
```