Customizable Alert Names

You can now assign custom names to alerts when creating or editing them, making it easier to recognize which of your alerts has been triggered, when reviewing alerts at a glance. See Create Alerts for details.

We plan to continue enhancing alert automations, including improvements to how filters are handled, in the coming weeks.

New Visualization Tooltip when Drilling

On the dashboard, when drilling down from one visualization into another, users can now view the description of the target visualization by clicking a new tooltip icon.

This feature was previously in beta and first became available in early access on January 8, 2025. It is now enabled by default for all users.

Improved Data Blending

We have made it easier to analyze and combine data from different sources. Now, you can create metrics that calculate summary values at the source level and use FlexQuery to perform final calculations like sum or difference, without loading data into a central data warehouse. This reduces the amount of data transferred, keeping it within platform limits. It’s especially useful for merging data from multiple regional data sources into one workspace.

The feature improvements include the following:

• Ranking Filters and Metric Value Filters now work with visualizations that use metrics from multiple sources.
• Show Missing Values is now supported.
• In the Analytics Designer metrics bucket, you can create cross-source metrics using Sum, Difference, Product, Ratio, and Change.
• In the current version, Show in % works only when breaking down by a single common (non-date) attribute across all federated metric sources.

See the Blending Data section for more details.

Data Separation in the GUI

You can now manage data separation directly in the GUI. This feature visually represents the functionality of Workspace Data Filters (WDF), which are useful for creating workspace hierarchies and multitenant environments.

WDFs allow you to restrict data available in child workspaces. For example:

• A parent workspace may display data from all company departments.
• A child workspace, with a WDF applied, will only see data for the Sales department in the same visualization.

Workspace Settings in the GUI

You can now manage workspace settings directly in the GUI. This update allows you to:

• Create workspace data filters
• Change the workspace’s color theme and palette
• Adjust localization settings

All these changes can now be made without using the API. For further information, see the Workspace Settings section.

PostgreSQL Data Source SSL Validation

When setting up a PostgreSQL data source, the API/backend now requires at least one of the ssl or sslmode parameters.

Changes to Existing Data Sources

If your data source does not include ssl or sslmode in the JDBC URL, we will automatically add sslmode=prefer to keep things working as they are now. This ensures no breaking changes, as it was the previous default for the PostgreSQL driver.

However, we recommend switching to sslmode=verify-full for better security and to ensure encryption in transit protection.

Changes for New Data Sources

When creating a new data source via API, you must now include either ssl or sslmode in your request.

If you’re using a template to create data sources automatically, you need to update the template to include one of these parameters.

If not, the new data source creation will fail, which is different from how it worked before.

Support for External Email Recipients

Administrators can now configure destinations that allow users to send alerts and scheduled exports to any email address, including those outside of your organization. For added control, you can disable the inclusion of dashboard links when sending to external recipients. See Create Destinations for details.

New Notification Panel for Alerts

In addition to receiving automatically triggered alerts via email and webhook channels, you can now also send alerts to a new notification panel. Located at the top of the web application, the notification panel is accessible from anywhere within the workspace. By clicking a notification, you can navigate directly to the widget that triggered the alert.

Notifications can be sent independently or alongside email and webhook alerts. See Create Destinations for details.

PostgreSQL Data Source SSL Validation

When setting up a PostgreSQL data source, the API/backend now requires at least one of the ssl or sslmode parameters.

Changes to Existing Data Sources

If your data source does not include ssl or sslmode in the JDBC URL, we will automatically add sslmode=prefer to keep things working as they are now. This ensures no breaking changes, as it was the previous default for the PostgreSQL driver.

However, we recommend switching to sslmode=verify-full for better security and to ensure encryption in transit protection.

Changes for New Data Sources

When creating a new data source via API, you must now include either ssl or sslmode in your request.

If you’re using a template to create data sources automatically, you need to update the template to include one of these parameters.

If not, the new data source creation will fail, which is different from how it worked before.

Customizable Time Granularity in Dashboard Date Filters

You can now customize the date filters in your dashboard to show specific time granularities, such as only days, months, or years. This is done using the dateFilterConfig metadata object in the GoodData UI. This feature allows you to optimize your dashboards by displaying only the date increments that are most relevant to your use case.

For more details, see the Date Filter Documentation.

Testing Connection to Destinations

Administrators can now edit a destination and test the connection to their webhook or SMTP server using the new Send test message button. This protocol is also initiated whenever you create and attempt to save a new destination, ensuring that all new destinations are automatically validated before they can be used.

New Visualization Tooltip when Drilling

On the dashboard, when drilling down from one visualization into another, users can now view the description of the target visualization by clicking a new tooltip icon.

Organization Admins Excluded from Recipients

In response to frequent feedback, we have removed users with organization.MANAGE permissions from the list of recipients in the automation dialog. If your solution requires sharing automations with these users, please ensure they are assigned explicit workspace permissions. This allows you to control which workspaces include admins as recipients and which do not.

Data Blending - Visualization Using Data from Multiple Sources

We are excited to announce the release of the Blending Data feature. This capability lets you create visualizations using metrics computed from multiple data sources. By blending data into a single result set using common conformed dimension attributes, you can now perform more flexible and powerful cross-source analysis. See the Blending Data section for more information.

M2M Authentication for Databricks

We are introducing M2M as a new authentication method to connect Databricks as a data source. We will also remove the option to use basic authentication with this data source by the end of January 2025, as it is no longer supported by Databricks.

See the Databricks section for more information.

Fix for Workspace Data Filter API

We resolved an issue where certain API usage scenarios could unexpectedly disable some workspace data filters. This hotfix mitigates the risk of unintended disablement and ensures the expected behavior of workspace data filters moving forward.

More Flexible Visualization Settings

You can now make visualizations smaller, giving you more freedom to design dashboards your way. The minimum width for visualizations is now 2, except for geocharts, which still have a minimum width of 6 due to technical reasons.

FlexConnect Data Source Support

Companies often have data spread across many sources, and with so many types of data storage, it’s hard to support all combinations with regular data connectors. FlexConnect helps solve this by letting you connect to almost any data source. This includes streaming data, structured and unstructured data, databases, third-party platforms, and machine learning models.

Previously, we used the names “FlexFunctions” and “Flight RPC” during the beta phase. The new name, “FlexConnect,” makes everything consistent in the user interface, repository, and API (which still used “FLIGHTRPC” before).

See the FlexConnect page for more information.

Monitor Metric Changes with Period Comparison Alerts

You can now create alerts that track metric changes compared to previous periods, helping you identify trends over time. With the new period comparison options, you can set alerts for relative (percentage) or absolute changes, or compare the current period to the same period last year for seasonal insights. See Create Alerts for details.

Set Up Alerts for Individual Attribute Values

You can now create alerts for individual attributes, enabling you to set up multiple alerts for a single metric based on different values of an attribute. For example, you can break down an alert for a budget metric into multiple alerts, one for each category of spending. See Create Alerts for details.