207 - Aligned State

Version 194.1 by Carlijn Kokkeler on 2023/10/23 15:07

Hi there, eMagiz developers! We have done much work for state generation, so that you can derive more information from your data! Examples are enrichment, aggregation, change detection and duplicate detection. State generation functionality is only accessible for models with an add-on state generation license. Next to state generation, several improvements regarding the alignment of components have been made. Moreover, performance improvements and bug fixes have been implemented. Lastly, a change in the metrics storage duration has been performed.

State Generation

New components
The following components have been added:

Aggregator: reverse of the splitter, used to combine multiple messages into a single one.
Infinispan metadata outbound channel adapter: used to (temporarily) store metadata, which can be used to enrich messages, or make decisions in filters or scripts.
Content enricher: used to add properties to the payload of messages, similar to what the header enricher can do for headers.
Duplicate detector: support object used to detect duplicate messages for a certain key on an inbound channel of a flow component. Duplicates can be marked or discarded.
Infinispan support objects, supporting the aggregator, metadata outbound channel adapter and content enricher.

SpEL functions & JSON
Added SpEL functions for:

Encoding & decoding Base64, Hex and hmac.
Date retrieval (currentDateTime, currentEpochMilli, currentEpochSecond).
Date conversion (DateTime to Epoch, Epoch to DateTime, DateTime formatter and DateTime parser).

Added support for SpEL property accessors for XML and JSON, meaning that you can read message payloads in SpEL expressions easily. For example, to retrieve the value for 'id' in the following JSON String: `{"id":"123"}`, this SpEL expression suffices: `payload.id`.

Added support for `#JsonPath` usage in SpEL expressions.

New image version 2.0.0
The above functionalities are features of the new image version 2.0.0. Important to note is that the library used for Code Mappings has been changed. Changed the library used for Code Mappings. Any customer with Gen3 runtimes and code mappings is required to reset their infra flows prior to deploying on image 2.0.0.

Component pages
Pages to add the new components have been created. Forms have been created nicely with proper help texts. The EHCache cache manager has been removed.

Metrics Storage Duration

Manage - Monitoring: We will change the retention of monitoring data of different environments. For minute level data, it will be kept for test, acceptance and production environments for 5, 7 and 30 days respectively. Then the minute level data will be reduced to hour level data then will be stored for test, acceptance and production for 3, 6 and 12 months respectively.

Feedback Items

Alerting manual pause
A few releases ago we changed the behavior of alerting in the deployment plan. Now each time when a deployment plan is executed the alerting will be automatically re-enabled when the deployer closes the deployment plan or closes the web browser. The majority of the users are happy with the new behavior, but there are some use cases that you do not want start the alerting immediately. With this release, if alerting has been paused manually, this will not be activated automatically after a release deployment.

Ordering of graphs in Manage
The graphs in Manage are now ordered according to importance. This means that runtime statistics are sorted by "Process CPU usage" (highest first), queue statistics are sorted by "Messages in queue" (highest first), and HTTP statistics are sorted by "Unsuccessful requests" (highest first).

UTC times in Grafana panels
All Grafana panels now show UTC times, which are normally used in eMagiz, instead of local (browser) time zones. This way, it is easier to match graphs with logging events or alerts.

Update flow designer version
The framework used in the flow designer has been updated, improving performance.

Carwash track TLS versions in logging
A new logging feature will be released, enabling us to make better choices in deprecating old encryption standards.

Moving channels in the flow designer
Moving already attached channels in the flow designer has been made sligthly easier.

Topic sizes description change
In the change description (and History) when altering the topic size of a topic the new and old value were switched around creating confusion, this has been resolved.

Password change notification
When an account password change request is made, even when this fails, a mail is sent to the account owner to inform the owner about the action.

Password comparison
When changing a password, it is compared to a list of known database breaches for security. A warning is shown when the password corresponds with a password in the database.

Inactive user alerting
Inactivated users are now removed from all alert settings (included “disabled“ settings) to avoid undesirable notifications.

Alphabetical sorting on user level in HTTP statistics
Variables in the 3rd generation runtimes HTTP statistics detail pages are now sorted case insensitive.

Bug Fixes

Flow designer styling
The styling of the flow designer's left component panel has been restructured, solving a rare bug which would break the styling of certain functionalities.

Partial search for messages
It is now possible to search on messages partially in Manage Monitoring. For example, a search for Uptime can be done by searching for "up" "time" "ptim".

Disk usage after cloud template update
In the last cloud template update there was an issue with disk performance. This has been resolved in this release. You can manually upgrade your cloud template, or rely on automatic updates.

Error handling migration
If there is no custom error handling, when migrating to Gen3, the error channel to “errorChannel” is only created for the first inbound in an entry flow. This has been fixed by adding a migration step, where we set the error channel of all inbounds in a flow to “errorChannel” if the custom error handling is set to false.

Fancy Forum Answers

As always, this is a gentle reminder to ask questions via the Q&A forum. The Q&A forum is available in the eMagiz iPaaS portal, so we can all benefit from the knowledge within the community. For some inspiration, take a look at these forum answers:

Key takeaways

Thanks to all who helped build and those who tested and gave feedback to improve the product. To end this post, here are some key takeaways for you:

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