What’s New
Squirro Monitoring can now be selected from the Application Setup screen.
Highlights of Squirro Monitoring features and improvements include:
An out of the box Activity Tracking dashboard with a plethora of statistics to gain visibility into users' activity.
Added user activity logs for Question Answering (QA) and SimilarSearches widgets.
Exposed configuration options in the Activity Tracking step to dynamically enrich activity logs with specified User Data. Information is then stored in labels within the Monitoring Project. Przemysław
An updated Data ingestion Logs dashboard with:
Display names for facets, and a few new facets: Step Name, Step Execution Mode, Successful Items, and Errored Items.
Step Duration is now displayed in milliseconds.
Two metrics widgets for number of logs and number of errors.
Start and finish messages of pipeline steps are now more descriptive
When an error occurs from a built-in step executed in the ingester service, a stack trace is included in the body.
Improvements
Added logic to augment community data using external sources.
Now a loading bar is shown during the collection fetch of React widgets.
Added pagination to community subscriptions.
Aggregations communities collection factory is now exposed for custom widgets API.
Added visibility conditions to the Global Search state (NLP Search / is empty / is not empty).
Changed the Lets Go button in the Communities Widget to show on left.
Now
filesystem_plugin
has better MIME type detection and will include thebody
field for text documents.Set up proper project type for automatically created monitoring projects via the newly exposed project type parameter in the topic API.
Enhanced context search across all dashboards.
The CommunitiesList widget was migrated to React from Backbone.js.
Improvements to the Items detail SidePanel hide and show logic.
New React Custom Widget documentation added to the Squirro Docs site.
Added searchable and visible properties when creating and modifying dashboards.
Improved React widgets performance and optimized collection fetching.
Now
ES_TMPDIR
allows you specify the default temp directory within the Elasticsearch config file.Rewrite the
SaveQuery
andShare
dialogs to React.[Document level feedback] Restore icons on document keywords instead of highlights.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bottom padding issue for the Items widget.
Fixed functionality issues with the carousel layer mode.
Fixed an issue with tags not displaying in the Items widget cards.
Changed default from none to a specified config value for fetching community subscriptions from the topicproxy service.
Fixed a bug that prevented Item detail SidePanel from showing when entities are disabled.
Fixed a typo in the overridden post method that led to a 404 error in the Figma data loader plugin.
Fixed a display issues with chips. The text in the chips is now ellipsed when it is too long, the chip height is set to 24px, and the chips are left-aligned to the Filters header text.
Failing individual import steps no longer cause the import process to break.
Fixed an issue with the arrow breaking in horizontal mode in global search.
Now labels placeholder in an item’s details are hidden when there are no labels to display.
Added additional logic to the import dashboard role for community 360 from project templates.
Fixed validation error messaging for pipeline workflows with duplicated ML models.
Fixed an issue with importing projects from the Create Project dialog box where the imported project also had a project description.
Fixed an issue with match-any-word order in the AI Studio Ground Truth view.
Now
communities_count
andcommunities_item_count
for newsletter use the same default config as specified under thenewsletter
section.Fixed an issue with fingerprint service folder permissions.
Breaking Changes
Implemented pagination to the community subscription endpoint. The default API call will no longer return all subscribed communities.
Upgraded squirro-platform to work with Elasticsearch 7.17.6. This requires an Elasticsearch upgrade. This is covered below in the upgrade instructions.
Removed the gdfs_plugin package as it is no longer used.
Installation and Upgrade
You will have to resolve at least the following config files when upgrading from Squirro 3.3.0
/etc/nginx/conf.d/ssl.inc
/etc/squirro/common.ini
For new installations, please follow the Setup on Linux instructions.
To upgrade an existing installation, please consult the Upgrades for Squirro 3.5.3 and later guide.