New Components

AppsFlyer Extractor

• We’re happy to welcome the AppsFlyer Extractor to the family!

• AppsFlyer is the market leader in mobile advertising attribution and analytics, helping marketers to pinpoint their targeting, optimize their ad spend, and boost ROI.

• This component was developed by KDS Team.

DynamoDB Writer

• Another great addition to our component collection is DynamoDB Writer!

• This component lets you write data from our Storage into AWS' DynamoDB, which is a key-value, document-based database. It's fully managed, multiregion, multimaster, durable with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications.
  

  

• This component was developed by KDS Team.
  

CSV to XLSX Processor

• Highly demanded utility to convert data in CSV format to XLSX is here!

• This component was also developed by KDS Team.
  

Updated Components

AWS S3 Extractor

• Uses parallel download and it's more than 20 times faster!

Snowflake Extractor

• Supports incremental load.
  

• Supports config rows.
  

Oracle Extractor

• Supports incremental load.
  

• Supports configuration rows.

• Implemented retry mechanism for all types of queries

Redshift Extractor

• Supports incremental load.

MySQL Extractor

• Implemented retry mechanism for all types of queries

PostgreSQL Extractor

• Added support for PostgreSQL Server v12
  

• Transformations are collapsed by default.
  

  

Data Catalog

• Improved "empty" page
  
  
• Type of sharing is now shown and will be improved further. 
  
  
• Improved “initial" modal
  
  
• Bucket description is shown where applicable. 
  

  

  

Storage

• When creating an alias table, you can now filter data by the EMPTY_STRING or SPACE characters.
  

  

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the Darksky extractor date conversion. The bug caused dates in the date column for places in UTC+ timezones to be one day less than the actual forecast date.
  

Developers

• php-csv-options - A library for setting CSV options
  

• php-db-import-export - A library for loading/unloading data between Snowflake and Azure Blob Storage

We have encountered a small number of failed jobs in US region between 4:46 AM - 9:17 AM UTC.

Affected jobs finished with Application Error caused by invalid SSL connection to GoodData and we're investigating the issue.

UPDATE Nov 24, 1:42 PM (UTC) - Only projects having custom GoodData domains was affected by this issue. Problem was with validation of a renewed SSL certificate. The fix is deploying right now.

We are investigating job termination issues for some components. After termination request is accepted jobs remain in terminating state until finished. 

UPDATE Nov 22, 9:28 AM (UTC) - We have identified the root cause and prepared the fix which should be released in few hours. Only minority of jobs termination was affected by this issue.

UPDATE Nov 22, 10:49 AM (UTC) - The fix was deployed and job termination is fully functional again for all jobs.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is facing increased network connectivity errors to instances, hence the performance of Keboola Connection in EU region is impacted. As a consequence connection to Snowflake and creation of Jupyter/R sanboxes fails, most of the jobs are slow or stalled.

UPDATE Nov 12, 8:39 AM (UTC) Amazon have identified the root cause and are working to resolve the issue.

We are experiencing failures of few components e.g. Salesforce Extractor. It is caused by recent infrastructure changes that were deployed on November 8th.

We are rolling back these changes and we'll update this status with new information.

UPDATE Nov 11, 8:37 AM (UTC) - Changes was rolled back and affected components should be working again without issues.

UPDATE Nov 11, 8:50 AM (UTC) - We're investigating further issues with Salesforce Extractor. 

UPDATE Nov 11, 9:00 AM (UTC) - Salesforce Extractor is working again. 

We're sorry for the inconvenience. 

Come check out our new UI along with our new feature releases, including our new Dashboard overview, Data Catalog, and Scaffolds. Webinar will be held Nov 11, 2019 15:00 UTC and also recorded available upon request.

You can register here.

We started redesigning Keboola Connection in June, 2019. The first pages we changed were the pages related to authentication, followed by moving and redesigning the navigation. Today, we're happy to announce that the 3rd part of Keboola Connection redesign is ready and deployed. The content itself hasn't changed that much, but we invested a lot of time and effort into making all parts look similar to bring you better user experience.

Let's summarize the biggest changes:

• New project dashboard - shows what's happening in the project.
• Scaffolds - predefined blocks of configurations for specific use cases
• Data Catalog - a new way of sharing data in the organization
• Option to share buckets for a specific project in the organization
• Option to share individual tables from different buckets (buckets are created automatically)

Brand New Dashboard

The new dashboard is the entry point to your project and you should find the most important information on the project there. You can learn what users are active in your project, who created a configuration recently, which jobs are currently running, etc.

Extractors, Writers and Applications are Components

We grouped all components together in the main navigation.

Each section has two parts:

• Directory - list of all components available for the selected type (extractor, writer, and application)
• My components - list of all components you have configured (also for the selected type)

Scaffolds (New in Keboola Connection)

Scaffolds allow you to use a group of prepared configurations for a specific use case by filling in only a few details (e.g., credentials). No additional configuration is required.

Data Catalog (New in Keboola Connection)

This is a new way you can now see the data shared from/to your project:

• Data which you can use in your project (the section Shared with you)
• Data you shared from your project (the section Shared from this project)

Bucket Sharing

You can share a bucket directly from the Data Catalog section:

Simple sharing - when you already have a prepared bucket you want to share.

Advanced sharing - when you want to create a new bucket with specific tables.

Also, a new type of sharing has been added. From now on, you can share a bucket to a specific project in your organization.

Storage, Transformations, Orchestrations

These sections have been slightly redesigned, but you should be able to find everything in the same place.

There are a few things we want to mention:

• In the orchestration detail, the configured token is more visible.
• Jobs in the orchestration detail can be filtered by their status (successful vs. failed).
• In the transformation detail, you can find the information about the backend you used and the phase on the right side.

Jobs

The Job detail page has also been redesigned.

Again, as with Transformations or Orchestrations, the content stays the same. We only reorganized it a bit. The event detail is shown in modal. Job parameters and Mapping (information about input/output tables) are shown in modal as well. Just click "Show all" in the particular section.

User and Project menus

These menus haven't changed much either. They were moved to the same line (as was Trash).

Anyway, we're going to continue to improve Keboola Connection for you, there are definitely more things to come. We hope you like our new UI and would love to hear your feedback!

GoodData was experiencing issues that were preventing users of GoodData system to access the platform and the projects located on this datacenter. The issue started on 10/30 at 23:43 (UTC) and was resolved on 10/31 02:18 (UTC).

Affected jobs in Keboola Connection ended up in error Running 147946154733.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/developer-portal-v2/keboola.gooddata-writer:1.4.4 container exceeded the timeout of 18000 seconds.

Read the original GoodData service status.

On Dec 1st, 2019, Snowflake will turn on strict string-to-date conversion for all Keboola Connection projects.

By introducing this change, Snowflake wants to address issues such as invalid date strings rolling over. For example, 07-32 (July 32nd) has been interpreted as August 1st. Rollover will no longer be supported for dates, times, or timestamps.

A full description of affected cases and tips on what to do are provided in the Snowflake 3.45 Release Notes.

We have a list of affected queries in the Keboola Connection projects ready and will be contacting all users that may be affected by this change. You'll have plenty of time to check everything and fix any potential issue. 

Thanks a lot for your cooperation. 

Feature Sunsetting

• Oauth-v2 and the old GoodData writer were completely shut down after the deprecation period.

Updated Components

Facebook Extraction

• Data can be extracted from each account in a separate API call. That should prevent issues with the API refusing to reply due to too much data in the response.
  
  

GoodData Writer

• There is now a warning that running a single row will reset the state for all rows. It is a feature that was unexpected for some of our customers.

Changes in Keboola Connection

• Good Data writer is no longer shown in the Storage Console graph and the Transformation overview.

New components

KDS team created two components. Application for refreshing dashboards and datasets in PowerBI and Pardot extractor.

• 12:24:13 UTC: Keboola Connection in EU region is currently experiencing service disruption. We're investingating and will keep you posted. 
• 12:34:04 UTC: EU region is currently up, but not stable yet. 
• 12:42:21 UTC: Keboola Connection in EU region is now up and stable. 

We're very sorry for any problems this have caused. A post mortem post will follow when we examine the logs and find the root cause. 

Since October 15, 2019 5:16PM UTC the Docker Hub container registry is experiencing a complete service disruption. Some of Keboola Connection 3rd party components' images are historically hosted on Docker Hub. Such components' jobs will fail during the outage. You can subscribe to the outage mitigation progress on Docker Hub status page. 

All the new components and Keboola-maintained components are using AWS ECR as a registry, so they are not affected by the outage. 

We're very sorry about any problems this may cause. 

Since October 11, 2:00 PM UTC we are experiencing failures on the Transformation Overview page and on the Storage Table Graph page in all regions with the following error message:

Cannot load GoodData Writer: Client error response [status code] 410 [reason phrase] Gone

We're investigating the issue and will update this post with our findings.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

UPDATE October 15, 5:15 PM UTC: a new version was released and the bug was fixed.

New Components

• Smartsupp extractor by Revolt BI downloads data from the live chat platform.

Updates

• Input mapping filter can be set on an ignored column.
• Sandboxes with duration longer than 5 days display the expiration date correctly.

Updated Components

• Oracle and PostgreSQL extractors use optimized tables and columns loading.
• R transformation and sandbox updated to version 3.6.1.
R transformation supports R Markdown.
• GoodData Writer fixes the link to the GoodData project in the EU region.

Deprecations

• GoodData Writer V2, old OAuth Broker and the original AdForm extractor were successfully turned off.

Since October 10, 3:00 am UTC we are experiencing higher rate of "Obsolete output mapping" user errors in transformation jobs. This issue is caused by a recent update of the transformation component. We'll be rolling back the release as soon as possible and keep you updated on further events.

UPDATE 8:45 am UTC: We have successfully deployed a previous version and all affected configurations should be working now. 

UPDATE October 13, 6:11 PM UTC: A new version with a fix has been released and deployed.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

There will be a maintenance period of Developer Portal on Saturday, October 12, 2019 from 6:00am UTC and should take around 1 hour.

We will be upgrading database infrastructure. This maintenance won't affect Connection nor any other Keboola service.

We hope that you can join us, but if not the webinar will be available on video by request afterward as well.

Cheers,

Your Keboola Team

The deprecated OAuth Broker won't be supported after September 30, 2019. 

When executing configurations in not-yet-migrated projects, you will start getting errors with the end of life message. The migration will be available for at least one week after the deprecated Broker is shut down.

Please migrate your projects if you haven't done so already. If you have any questions, contact Keboola Support.

The support for the deprecated GoodData Writer v2  ends today, September 30, 2019.

The deprecated writer will start returning errors with the end of life message. You will be able to migrate for at least one week after the deprecated GoodData Writer is shut down.

If you are still using the deprecated GoodData Writer, you should see a deprecation notice in Keboola Connection. Please proceed to the migration.

If you need any help migrating the writer, contact Keboola Support.

On Saturday night, September 28-29th between 11:00pm - 8:20am we experienced failures of sending automated emails in EU region. Our monitoring shows only few jobs were affected, we recommend to double-check status of your recent orchestrations run. We apologize for the inconvenience.

A new release of the GoodData writer published on September 24, 2019, 3:17 pm UTC contained a bug affecting certain jobs in all regions. The bug caused the jobs to finish with an internal error.

We rolled it back to a previous version on September 25, 5:57 am UTC and all jobs are working now. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We have a problem with starting Jupyter sandboxes started at 12:58 UTC. 

We will provide an update when we'll have more information.

UPDATE 13:15 UTC - Problem is fixed. All services are running.

New Features

Julia sandboxes and transformations

We are happy to introduce a new Julia sandbox and Julia transformations. Both are in Beta preview for now; to try either of them, write a ticket to the support, and we will enable them for you. You can find more information about the Julia transformations in our documentation.

User roles

User roles are now available in all projects. We have added a new guest role that has only limited access to projects' resources. Learn more about roles in our documentation.

New Components

Brightloom Extractor (previously known as Eatsa) — downloads all your transactions and item details from the Brightloom POS system.

Summary

On Sunday, September 15th at 01:32 UTC, orchestrator and other component jobs started failing in the EU region. In the following hours, our worker servers weren't able to handle the workload, and the job backlog started to increase. We manually resolved the incident, and the platform was in full operation with a clean backlog at 08:26 UTC.

What happened?

Once we discovered the incident, we replaced all our worker servers and added more capacity to clean up the backlog faster.

What are we doing about this?

We are also working on a completely new job processing and scheduling mechanism that will prevent similar issues from occurring down the road. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.

New Features, Improvements and Minor Fixes

• From now on, you can use the U2F hardware device for multi-factor authentication. 

• Support for zlib was added to the Decompress processor. 
• Performance of saving orchestration tasks was improved.

New Components

• Compress processor — compresses files into a specified format.
• CleverMaps SpatialUtils app  from CleverAnalytics — provides basic spatial functions for processing CSV files with geometries.
  

Few orchestrator and transformation jobs were restarted on September 16, 06:36 UTC. 

This was caused by issue in zone rebalancing. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We are investigating job failures in EU region started at 1:32 UTC.

We will provide an update when we'll have more information. 

UPDATE 06:06 UTC - We have identified the issue and fixed the cause. Backlog is processing now.

UPDATE 07:54 UTC - There is still backlog of orchestration jobs. We have increased the processing capacity. It should be cleared in half an hour.

UPDATE 08:26 UTC - The backlog was cleared. All services are running.

We apologize for the inconvenience, we'll share more details in a post-mortem.

New Features, Improvements and Minor Fixes

• When checking events in the job detail, the Load More button tries to load up to 1,000 events at once.
• You can search in component configurations when adding a new task to an orchestration phase.

• MongoDB extractor supports an optional Authentication Database parameter.
  
  

• Refreshing your token no longer breaks access to your project.
• Remove Empty Files and Folders processor has a new option available to remove files with whitespace characters only: remove_files_with_whitespace
  

New Components

• Bitbucket extractor for getting data about commits to your team's repositories
• PowerBI writer
• Sendinblue application for relationship marketing 
• SurveyMonkey extractor
  
• MapboxUtils application by CleverAnalytics for manipulating vector tilesets on Mapbox

Support for deprecated GoodData Writer v2  is coming to its end, the writer will be shut down on September 30, 2019 .

If you are still using the old Writer you should see a deprecation notice in Keboola Connection. Please proceed to migration.

If you need any help migrating the writer, contact Keboola support.

This is a reminder that the Deprecated  OAuth broker will be shut down on September 30, 2019. 

Please start the migration if your projects aren't migrated yet. If you have any questions please contact Keboola support.