2:27pm CEST: We're investigating the issue.
5:34pm CEST: New sandboxes are now running correctly. If you can't connect to an existing sandbox, please recreate it. We are deeply sorry for the trouble and frustration.
New Applications
Dark Sky Extractor
Dark Sky is the new name for the old Forecast.io service. So we have prepared a new extractor for it. It allows you to look up the weather anywhere on the globe. You can use our migration tool to migrate your existing configurations from the deprecated Forecast.io extractor.
For more information, please see our documentation.
Currency Extractor in EU region
This extractor is now also available in the EU version of Keboola Connection.
Features
- Dropbox Writer now allows you to specify a custom destination folder name for uploaded data.
- We have added the ability to configure your own OAuth credentials. We did this because we are still waiting for quota limits increase for the Google Analytics API for our Google Analytics Extractor. So now your extractor can run under independent quotas.
- Tableau Writer now uses the new version of Google Drive and Dropbox Writers to upload data to Tableau.
- Removed 8 kB script size limit in Rstudio/Jupyter sandboxes
- Improved handling errors in Rstudion/Jupyter sandboxes. Invalid package names will now throw an error with an explanation instead of an application error.
- Read-only bucket credentials to your Redshift backend are now deprecated. See this more detailed post about accessing your data since April 18, 2018.
Fixes
- Table import events in the Storage panel once again have a link to the imported file.
Failures
Unfortunately on Sunday we had some problems with our storage for KBC Events, which delayed execution of jobs. We apologize for any inconvenience that may have caused.
A few Orchestrations which were scheduled to run at exactly midnight UTC may not have started due to an issue with the Orchestration Scheduler. The issue arose on the 15th of September and has now been resolved.
If you have orchestrations which are scheduled to run at 0:00 UTC, please check that these orchestrations have run correctly.
Sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
On May 5, 2017 at 6:39:03 PM UTC+2 one of our AWS RDS server was restarted. This lead to loss of connection between our lock server and job processes. The outcome may be following
- Orchestrations, that have all tasks successfully finished, but the orchestration itself failed
- Failed tasks within orchestrator; the task execution finished successfully, only the job status was not saved correctly
Developers Documentation
We completely rewrote documentation of our Generic Extractor. It was moved from github to developers.keboola.com. Follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to configure extractor for new api.
Transformations
Update of python for custom science and transformations to version 3.5.3.
GoodData Writer
Intermittent data load errors were fixed using zip for data loads to avoid bug in GoodData WebDav with gzip compression.
Google BigQuery Writer in private beta
We've been working hard on a BigQuery writer for the Google Cloud Platform. If you'd like to get early access for the beta release, please let us know at support@keboola.com.
Azor Extractor
There is a new third-party extractor for Azor. Azor is a Czech service that allows you to monitor your competitor's products prices and availability.
Fixes
- Trying to add a column with the same name as an existing column, but only different casing will result in an error message. (ex: customerEmail and CustomerEmail)
- Table ID was added to workspace loading errors to help determine the cause of the error.
- Attempting to create an output table with column names beginning with "_" will result in an error.
We're happy to announce the release of the Shared Buckets feature. It's an easy way to share data between projects in Keboola Connection.
This will help you:
- Have greater organizational control over your data
- Speedup your data workflow
- Reduce your project usage totals
For more details about Shared Buckets, see our User documentation. Developers can find more info in our API documentation in Apiary.
We have investigated issues with Amazon DNS service in us-east region.
It affects jobs processing and API availability of our components. Thanks for patience.
UPDATE:
AWS confirmed the problem - 5:15 AM PDT We are investigating elevated errors resolving the DNS hostname used to access the EC2 APIs.
AWS status update - 5:51 AM PDT We have identified the root cause of the issue causing errors resolving the DNS hostname used to access the EC2 APIs and are currently working to resolve.
AWS status update - [RESOLVED] Between 4:31 AM and 6:10 AM PDT, we experienced errors resolving the DNS hostnames used to access some AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region. During the issue, customers may have experienced failures indicating "hostname unknown" or "unknown host exception" when attempting to resolve the hostnames for AWS services and EC2 instances. This issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
Introducing the new design for email notifications from Keboola Connection. No more plain text mail from us, now you can jump straight to your project from within the notification.
This design was also applied to Orchestration error emails. So now each failed task contains the result message from the originating component.
We`ve launched a new version of the Zendesk extractor, which completely replace old version of Zendesk extractor.
It is based on our Generic Extractor with predefined templates to helps download your data easily.
If you are interested in more details like extractor limits and output data format please visit our new documentation.
Feel free to try the new extractor and in if you have any questions or something is missing, please contact us at support@keboola.com.
The old extractor, now named Zendesk (DEPRECATED) in Keboola Connection, is now deprecated and will be shut down on 27th of October 2016.
If you need help with migration please let us know.