Google components authorisation issue [Post-Mortem]

Since July 26 2019 there was an issue with authorisation of our Google related components using OAuth in the EU region.

We needed to undergo a verification process of our apps by Google. This process has been recently made more strict and we weren't able to finish it before the deadline.

We are very sorry about this, we should have paid more attention to this process and the consequences related to not complying with it.

We have now successfully verified most of our Google components. We are still waiting for the verification of GMail Extractor and GMail Attachments Extractor.

Google Drive extractor authorization in EU [resolved]

We are investigating a Google Drive Extractor authorization verification issue in Keboola Connection EU.

Only creation of new configurations is affected.

We will provide an update as soon as the issue is resolved.

Update 2019-08-14: The verification issue is resolved and new configuration are working again.


Week in Review -- July 19, 2019

Updated Components

Event triggered orchestrations

  • Disabled orchestrations are not triggered anymore
  • Settings (like emails for error notifications) are taken from the orchestration configuration
Writers

Following writers now set data types based on metadata:

  • Tableau TDE
  • Impala
  • Mssql
  • Mysql
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSql
  • Redshift
  • Thoughspot
  • BigQuery v2

You can read more about Storage data types in the docs.

Gooddata Writer v3

  • Fact grain is no longer reset when switching from full to incremental load

Other components

New Features

Notification of concurrent editing

A warning message is displayed when you try to edit a configuration that's being edited by someone else at the same time. It also warns you if you are editing the same configuration in a different browser tab. 

CAPSLOCK notification for password field

When you focus the password field and your capslock is enabled, you'll see a notification. 

Q3 Customer Webinar

Keboola is hosting our inaugural Q3/2019 customer webinar and we want you there! If you haven’t done so already, please register now.  Learn about new features, functionalities, and components that we have built during the first half of the year.  Additionally, see the exciting plans that we have for Keboola over the next 3-12 months.

We hope you can join us!  The webinar will be available on video by request afterward as well.

Register here.

Error when saving configuration Post-Mortem

Some of our users experienced errors in Keboola Connection (in both regions) yesterday when saving configurations of several components.

An error was displayed to users who tried to save their configuration between Jul 9, 2019, 12:35 CET and Jul 10, 2019, 14:18 CET.

Mainly users who have an older version of Chrome Browser or any version of the Firefox browser were affected.

The issue was caused by wrong response headers (unsupported by the mentioned browsers) being sent to a preflight request on one of our API services.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Navigation Moved and Redesigned

Three weeks ago we announced the start of Keboola Connection redesign.

We're glad we can share another important update with you.

We moved the navigation from the left side to the top

This allows you to more quickly navigate within a project and should improve user experience. All sections remain the same and the content hasn't changed.

  • Project Settings can be found on the right side (by clicking on the "cogs")

  • The Project Selector is almost the same as before

  • The User Settings menu has a new home on the top right side

  • Also, we added a shortcut to the Trash, so you no longer need to navigate there through User & Settings


We hope you'll like this update as much as we do.

Support system unavailable

Zendesk is down, so our support system is inaccessible. Keboola Connection is unaffected, but if you run into anything critical, please reach us via email.

We'll update this post when we obtain more information.

Update 14:36 UTC - Looks like things are back to normal now.

Week in Review -- June 27, 2019

New Features and Improvements

Require MFA for organization

There's a new option in organization-level settings which allows you to require Multi-Factor Authentication for each member of your organization and project.

Users not having the Multi-Factor Authentication enabled will be prompted to enable it.

Set same data type to all columns at once

When setting data types in transformation's Input Mapping you can set same data type to all columns at once.

GoodData Writer data types

When configuring tables in GoodData writer, we try to look for metadata for columns and set types for you automatically.


New Components

Google Translate

Translates text into any supported language.

https://components.keboola.com/components/kds-team.ex-google-translation

Google NLP

New component which uses Google Cloud Natural Language API to extract text features using pre-trained machine learning models.

https://components.keboola.com/components/kds-team.ex-google-nlp


Deprecation of GoodData Writer v2

The old version of GoodData Writer (v2) was already unpublished a few months ago and does not allow you to create new configurations since then. Now the time has come to deprecate the component entirely and set a date for its final shut down. 

The date is September 31, 2019, so you are encouraged to migrate old configurations until then. The ui shows a deprecation notice and offers you to run the migration process.