Summary
The following are a few features of the Alerting Framework:
- Spotfire Analyst and Web Player UI for configuration of Alerts
- Alerts triggered from a rules-based engine
- Rules are based on Schedules and/or Data Thresholds
- Utilizes existing Spotfire® analyses
- End-user subscription to Alerts
- Distribution of Alerts by email including PDF attachments
More details about the Alerting Framework for Spotfire® can be found in this article.
Release 1.2.0
Published: October 2024
The build date is October 30th 2024.
Changes to previous release:
New: Run Now button allows Alert Subscription to be executed immediately
regardless of its Schedule or Enabled/Disabled status. This is
primarily intended to be used to troubleshoot issues with Alerts.
New: ParseLogs utility simplifies locating and isolating log entries
for a particular Alerting Job in the Automation Services logfile
New: Allow email From Name to be omitted
Fixed: A check is made to see is there would be more than 65535 rows
exported to an xslx file. If so, an empty file containing a
warning message is created, instead of throwing an exception.
Fixed: Error when retrieving Filter Values in some Analysis Files
NOTE: There are no changes to the Alerting Framework Server which remains
at v1.1
Release 1.1.0
Published: June 2024
The build date is June 6th 2024.
Changes to previous release:
Fixed: Multiple data tables in Analysis File caused difficulties selecting
the correct data table to export across difference Alerts.
Fixed: Alerting.log file would sometime be written in the Tomcat bin folder
instead of the logs folder.
Fixed: Special characters in Page and Visualization names resulted in a Job
XML file on disk that could not subsequently be loaded into Spotfire
Analyst for debugging. This had no impact on running the Job in
Spotfire Automation Services to process Alert Rules.
Fixed: When running the Alerting Server in a standalone Tomcat Server, Alerts
would silently fail to be sent if the Spotfire Server was not running.
Fixed: Use All Rules checkbox appeared twice on the Alert Details page.
Fixed: Searching for Spotfire Users would sometimes fail to return any results
Fixed: Alerting Server would fail to start on Linux when Spotfire Server was
running as a service
New: PostgreSQL can now be used for the Alerting Database.
New: The Alerting Server status page is now also available as an easier to read
HTML page. There are no changes to the existing JSON status page.
New: The Filter tab on Alerts allows the application of Spotfire Filter settings
prior to running the Alert Rules process.
New: The Filter tab on Alerts allows the application of a Bookmark prior to
running the Alert Rules process.
New: The Filter tab on Alerts allows the execution of an IronPython script
prior to running the Alert Rules process.
New: The launching of Automation Services jobs is now asynchronous meaning
that long running jobs do not tie up Alerting Server resources. Jobs
are entered into the RunLog table with status Queued or InProgress
and their status is checked and updated by a background process every
5 minutes. Jobs that fail are not restarted.
New: The RunLog table can now be pruned on a regular basis to remove
entries more than a certain number of days old. The number of
days of entries to keep is configurable along with the option to
include or exclude failed entries in the prune operation.
Changed: The modifications to setenv.bat / setenv.sh required in the previous
release are no longer required. There is no harm in leaving them in
place, but they are no longer used.
Changed: The status page now shows the full Tomcat install folder instead of
the Spotfire Version.
Changed: Manage Alerts panel now checks Spotfire Server status before calling
any API methods
Release 1.0.0
Published: March 2024
Initial Release
Includes:
- Attached zip file contains version 1.0.0 of the Alerting Framework for Spotfire®
The build date is February 28th 2024.
