Business Intelligence 3.3.1: Elevate Your Grafana Workflows

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Business Intelligence 3.3.1, a game-changing update to the Business Intelligence platform. This version introduces powerful features to streamline workflows, deepen insights, and enhance your Grafana experience. Let’s dive into what’s new!

What’s New in Business Intelligence 3.3.1

• Enhanced Alerting Page: Navigate and manage alerts effortlessly with an improved UI and advanced filtering options.
• Data Preview Feature: Get a quick overview of data directly on the Alert Settings page before finalizing alerts.
• Alert Notification History: Review past notifications for better transparency and accountability.
• Enhanced Clustering: Updated clustering pages now support alerting and engine configurations.
• Localization Support: Spanish language support added to reach a wider audience.
• Personalization: Customize themes through profile settings for a tailored experience.
• New Data Source: Loki integration for enhanced logging capabilities.
• Faster Alert Processing: Optimize performance by customizing batch sizes for alerts and annotations in Engine settings.

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Enhanced Alerting Page

The alerting page has been revamped to address user feedback regarding navigation challenges and alert management inefficiencies in previous versions. The improved user interface (UI) offers a more intuitive layout, making it easier to locate and manage alerts.

Advanced filtering options allow users to sort and filter alerts based on specific criteria, reducing the time spent on manual searches and improving operational efficiency for teams monitoring large-scale systems in Grafana.

Data Preview Feature

Configuring alerts often requires users to ensure that the underlying data meets their expectations before activation. The new Data Preview feature, integrated directly into the Alert Settings page, enables users to view a snapshot of the data associated with an alert rule without navigating away or running separate queries.

This saves time, reduces errors in alert setup, and ensures that alerts are based on accurate and relevant data, enhancing trust in the system’s monitoring capabilities.

Alert Notification History

Transparency and accountability are critical in environments where alerts drive critical decision-making. The Alert Notification History feature provides a detailed log of past notifications, including when they were triggered, and the associated alert conditions.

This historical data is invaluable for auditing, troubleshooting false positives, and ensuring compliance with organizational or regulatory requirements, particularly for teams managing high-stakes operations.

Enhanced Clustering

Clustering is essential for scaling Business Intelligence deployments in distributed environments. The updated clustering pages now include support for displaying latest alerts and list of engines.

Localization Support

To make the platform more accessible to a global user base, Business Intelligence 3.3.1 introduces Spanish language support. This localization effort caters to Spanish-speaking users and organizations, reducing language barriers and improving user adoption in regions where Spanish is the primary language.

It reflects a commitment to inclusivity and ensures that non-English-speaking teams can fully leverage the platform’s capabilities in their native language.

Personalization

User experience is a priority in this release, with the addition of theme customization through profile settings. Users can now tailor the visual appearance of the platform (e.g., light or dark mode) to suit their preferences or reduce eye strain during long monitoring sessions.

This personalization fosters a more comfortable and engaging interaction with the platform, especially for users who spend extended periods working within Grafana dashboards.

New Data Source

The integration of Loki as a new data source expands the platform’s logging capabilities, complementing existing support for metrics and visualizations in Grafana. Loki, a log aggregation system designed for scalability, allows users to query and analyze logs alongside their metrics, providing a unified view of system health.

This is particularly useful for debugging issues, correlating events across logs and metrics, and gaining deeper insights into application performance in complex environments.

Faster Alert Processing

Performance optimization is a key focus in high-volume monitoring scenarios where delays in alert processing can lead to missed critical events. The ability to customize batch sizes for alerts and annotations in Engine settings allows administrators to balance throughput and resource usage, ensuring faster alert delivery without overloading the system.

This feature is especially beneficial for organizations with large datasets or frequent alert triggers, as it minimizes latency and improves responsiveness in Grafana workflows.

Enhanced OpenAPI Specification

The Business Engine’s OpenAPI specification has been overhauled, enabling seamless integrations and ensuring developers can leverage the latest platform capabilities effortlessly.

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MacOS and Windows installers are signed, notarized, and built using automated GitHub workflows for maximum security and reliability.

• MacOS:
  • Apple Disk Image (Apple Silicon)
  • Apple Disk Image (Intel x86)
  • ZIP (Apple Silicon)
  • ZIP (Intel x86)
• Linux:
  • RPM (arm64)
  • RPM (x64)
  • Debian (arm64)
  • Debian (x86)
• Windows:
  • Executable

Getting Started

The Business Intelligence platform uses Docker containers to deliver a modular, scalable solution. Our Quick Start guide provides a simplest setup to get started.

Release Notes

Business Studio 3.3.1

• Improved Alerting Page: Fixed an issue where the Production Build failed to display data in the Alerting table.
• Enhanced UI: Updated the Refresh button to include a disabled state for clearer user feedback.
• Timezone Support: Corrected event end date display in the event details view.

Business Studio 3.3.0

• Enhanced Clustering: Updated clustering pages to support alerting and engine configurations.
• Improved Event Visibility: Added a "No Data" info message on the event page for clarity.
• Localization Support: Introduced Spanish language support for a broader user base.
• Personalization: Customize themes via profile settings.
• Better Evaluations: Display variable option labels instead of raw values for improved readability.

Business Engine 3.3.0

• New Data Source: Added Loki support for enhanced logging capabilities.
• Timezone Fix: Resolved issues with unsupported database timezones in alert and action history.
• Performance Boost: Optimized alert execution for faster processing.
• Database Efficiency: Improved alerting performance with additional database indexes.

Business Studio 3.2.0

• Enhanced Alerting Page: Improved UX with advanced filtering options for easier navigation.
• Data Preview Feature: Preview data directly on the Alert Settings page.
• Alert Notification History: Track past notifications for transparency.
• Fixed Field Name Issue: Resolved issues with field names in alerts post-data transformation.
• Expanded Test Coverage: Increased testing for rock-solid reliability.

Business Engine 3.2.0

• Updated Engine API Endpoints: Enhanced endpoints for alert and action history. See the updated OpenAPI specification for details.
• License Limit Fix: Ensured strict compliance with licensing terms by addressing data import limits.

Business Studio 3.1.0

• Faster Alert Processing: Customize batch sizes for alerts and annotations.
• Improved Alert Insights: Use enhanced threshold filters in alert rule previews.
• Effortless Alert Management: Navigate with scrolling, sorting, and filtering on the Alerting page.
• Smoother Navigation: Streamlined breadcrumbs and sidebar for better UX.
• Version Awareness: Identify outdated Engine versions with a clear indicator.
• Flexible Queries: Enhanced support for transformations in Prometheus data sources.
• Higher Reliability: Expanded test coverage for stability.

Business Engine 3.1.0

• Accurate Data Handling: Added database timezone awareness in load balancing.
• Better Performance: Optimized retrieval of alert history across multiple rules.

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