Keboola Status

Components

Google Drive Writer (wr-google-drive)

• We announced the new version of Google Drive Writer on June 28th, 2017.
• This is the last call, the old component will be shut down by the end of this month - January 31st, 2019.

Lucky Guess (rt-lucky-guess)

• Enhanced Analysis for Redshift backend is no longer available.
• This component will be shut down on January 31st, 2019.

SalesForce Extractor (ex-salesforce)

• This component is already deprecated.
• This component will be shutdown on January 31st, 2019.

YouTube Extractor (ex-youtube)

• This component is already deprecated and no jobs were run in last months.
• This component will be shut down immediately.

Zendesk Extractor (ex-zendesk)

• A new version of the Zendesk extractor was announced on July 27, 2016.
• Like the YouTube Extractor, no jobs were run in last months and we will shut it down immediately.

Restbox (restbox)

• This component was deprecated on July 16, 2018 with multiple replacements.
• Same here, no jobs were run in last months and it will be shut down immediately.

MySQL Transformations

MySQL Transformations were deprecated on November 13, 2017. As we promised, MySQL Transformations were supported in 2018 and will be finally shut down on January 31st, 2019.

Deprecated Bucket and Table attributes

We are deprecating Bucket and Table attributes. These attributes were used as configuration storage for legacy components. If you need to store additional information with buckets or tables, please use the Metadata API.

Direct single sign-on access to GoodData projects from Keboola Connection has been improved and its security enhanced. Due to it, access has been disabled to all existing users and you have to enable it again in Writer's configuration. 

Also, you are no longer able to switch between projects, once you are in GoodData. You have to return back to Connection and access the other project from there. Although it can be a little less comfortable, it brings improved security and we believe it is a better solution for you.

Between 1:00 - 8:20 CET January 4th, 2019 some Facebook extractor jobs failed after yesterday update of the extractor. We rolled back to the previous working version and continue investigating the issue. Please revise your facebook ads extractor latest jobs and restart if needed. 

We are sorry for this inconvenience.

Update 12:50 CET

The issue has been resolved. The problem was in configurations that used own its authorization token, i.e., not authorized under Keboola Facebook App.

New components and component updates

• New FTP extractor is now in beta. It is packed with the same features as AWS S3 extractor and it is extensible with processors. We aim to gradually replace the current FTP extractor which is developed by 3rd party.
• New fit-into-storage processor that allows to import non-csv files (TXT, JSON) into storage by wrapping them into CSV tables.
  
• AWS S3 Extractor fixes bug with file matching. When the Subfolders option was off and Wildcard option was on, the extractor would erroneously download files contained in subfolders exactly matching the key.
• MongoDB extractor export mode is now set to "raw" by default on new configurations.

Enhancements

Input and output mapping for components is now parallelized. Configurations with large number of tables in input and output mapping (except transformations) should now run considerably faster. This affects both extractors and writers. Most recently updated extractors (e.g. AWS S3, FTP, HTTP, MySQL, MSSQL, Storage) also load tables into storage during the extraction of other tables. Together, these make up to 40% run time reduction for some configurations.

Input mapping load type is now shown in input mapping details:

The Run Orchestration dialog now has the option to select/deselect all tasks:

Developers

The option to have gzipped CSV file on component output mapping (/data/out/tables/) was removed. Only plain CSV files are accepted now. To our best knowledge this was never used.

We have just released a new version of AdWords Extractor. It works with AdWords API v201809 (see the Release notes).

The previous version of the extractor is deprecated and you can use our migration tool which will migrate your AWQL queries. As usual, you have to reauthorize the extractor and give it access to your AdWords data again. The previous version uses AdWords API v201802 which will be switched off on 30 January 2019.

Since 2018-12-19, 19:13:00 UTC we're experiencing a higher rate of application errors in all regions due to an outage in AWS ECR. 

We're investigating the issue and update this post once there.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Update 19:30 UTC

This outage also affects the Developer Portal.

Update 20:05 UTC

As of 19:51 UTC the issue is resolved by Amazon

Between 23:16 - 23:22 UTC December 14th, 2018 some jobs failed with Application error due to spikes in infrastructure load. 

We are investigating the root cause and taking measures so that this does not repeat. 

We deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Update [Dec 15, 2018, 08:19 CET]: This still happens occasionally.

Update [Dec 15, 2018, 10:57 CET]: We're still working on mitigating the issue. Comparing to historical hourly avg, actual job error rate is 6% bigger.

Update [Dec 15, 2018, 11:47 CET]: We're going to deploy patch into production. It will take about 2 hours. Expected resolution: 14:00 CET

Update [Dec 15, 2018, 12:45 CET]: Patch has been deployed.

There was an outage of the Keboola Connection platform in the US region from Dec 13, 2018, 23:19 CET to Dec 14, 2018, 02:28 CET. It was caused by an update of the Elasticsearch Service.

It was a self-service update of the managed Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and we decided to do it because updates were tested and all other clusters we're using were updated successfully - without any issues.

Updates like this usually go smoothly, but not this time. Unfortunately, the cluster froze and refused to accept any requests.

After detecting this, we decided to start a new service and restore from backup.

All services were fully restored to their normal state by Dec 14, 2018, at 02:28 CET.

We have already taken action to prevent this kind of failure from happening again, and we'll be testing all future updates on testing clusters (using snapshots from production clusters).

Any orchestrations in the US region that were scheduled to start during the outage were not started. Therefore you will need to run them manually or wait until their next scheduled run.

We want to sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by this outage.

New Features

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Transformation description, Last Runs, and Updates

• There's a new option to save transformation with description.
  

• The Last Runs section and Updates section have been added also to the Transformation Detail page and all components which support "single runs" (e.g. when HTTP extractor or AWS S3 extractor is extracting one file)

Input Mapping data types

In transformations with Snowflake backend, data types should be populated automatically for tables created with the components which set data types - MySQL extractor, Oracle extractor, MSSQL Server extractor, PostgreSQL extractor, DB2 extractor, and Snowflake extractor.

Input Mapping load type

For Snowflake backend, you can set Clone Table load type which leads to an ultra-fast load to a workspace. Most of your tables should be loaded under 10 seconds.

You can find more about this feature in our documentation.

Enhancements

• You can see a component type in Orchestration Tasks, thus having both MySQL writer and MySQL extractor in task won't be confusing anymore
• API Token can be Refreshed, Sent or Deleted directly from the token detail page

• We improved how data is loaded to Storage from our components - compression is used by default. Loads to Storage are about 40% faster for sliced files. So it impacts Credit Consumption too.
• MSSQL Server Extractor has new option WITH(NOLOCK) and supports incremental fetching with smalldatetime column
• Orchestration Notifications page has been improved, and notifications can be set easier

New components and component updates

• In RStudio/Jupyter sandboxes there's a hard memory limit set to 8GB. This limit is equal to memory limit in Transformations. With this change, you can be sure that what worked in Sandbox will work in Transformation too.
• Rename Files processor to rename files using regular expressions: https://components.keboola.com/components/jakub-bartel.processor-rename-files
• XLS processor to convert .xls(x) files to .csv files: https://components.keboola.com/components/jakub-bartel.processor-xls2csv
• Snowflake writer uses atomic swap of tables during full load (prevents empty table issue)