Features Added in Version 17.1.0

Panopticon Streams

- Test Connection for Output Data Sources
- New Parse operator, for parsing incoming Kafka messages
- New Aggregate Methods – PREV & DELTA
- Improved Layout of Directed Graph
- Ability to expand the Graph or Operator Settings panel
- Support to view the directed graph when running an application, including application performance statistics
- Logging improvements, to always show last few 100 log entries
- Web UI for XML & JSON Data Connectors
- Web UI for InfluxDB Data Connector
- Web UI for ActiveMQ & Rabbit MQ Data Connectors
- Web UI for AMPS Data Connector
- New REST output connector
- Support for the From Beginning option in the External Input operator, to process historically recorded events
- Support for automatic schema generation in input connectors
- Support for automatic schema generation in output connectors
- Enable Streams Application Monitoring via Confluent Enterprise Control Center

Data Connectivity

- New Kx kdb+ Discovery connector
- New Kx kdb+tick Discovery connector
- Retrieval of connection details (Host, Port, Username, Password) via REST service
- Support for 10 seconds timeout when retrieving schema in the Kx kdb+tick connector
- Support for the latest two versions of the MongoDB server
- Improved session management in the Spark Livy connector to keep sessions open in a session pool
- Support for client query timeout in the Kx kdb+ connector, including when the query is queued
- Support for specifying the username and password in the AMPS connector
- Support retrieving Data Frames in the Spark Livy Connector
- Ability for the Python connector to understand returned Pandas Data Frames, including when the data frame includes Numpy data types
- Support for parsing fields of a nested hierarchy in a sub document of a JSON array in the MongoDB connector
- Ability to update the schema in the Kafka, Kafka Publisher, and Panopticon Streams connectors for existing subscriptions
- Option in the file connectors (JSON, Text, XML, and Stream Simulator) to not publish data files to the Panopticon Server
- Ability to unpack nested numeric lists in the Kx kdb+ connector. Typically to support order book display
- Support for more text data types in the Id field selection of the Kx kdb+tick connector

Viz Server

- Support to generate and email HTML images of available dashboard parts under the Scheduler tab
- Enhanced e-mail generation (PDF and HTML/PNG) so e-mail subjects can support special time parameters
- Logging improvements, to always show last few 100 log entries
- Cache Results on Server option is now hidden forcing all results to be cached, optimizing performance
- REACT Framework Web API example
- SAML IDP Initiated Logout Support

Visualization

- New Single Record visualization
- Ability to set Needle width to the time slice. Typically used when displaying order books.
- Ability to set if the last value flag will be displayed in the Line Graph and Combination Graph visualizations
- Ability to set if the Set Snapshot Here option will be available in the Web Client
- Ability to display the endpoints and specify the time format of the Time Axis
- Ability to set whether to hide null Details pop-up values in the Web client
- Support for web client Details rendering in the Pie/Donut visualization
- Support for Divide By 10000 format on numeric variables, visual column settings, and numeric filters
- Analytics
- Support for relative dates and range ranges in the Action Date Picker and Action Date Range Picker

Hour [H]. Day [D], Business Day [B], Month [M], Year [Y]

- A parameter is not selected by default in Action controls, to prevent incorrect parameters being applied

Data Framework

- New POSIXMILLIS format for time parsing in Text, XML, JSON, WebSocket, and message bus connectors

(Number of milliseconds since Unix Epoch)

In addition, deprecation of the following:

Hierarchy Structure and Hierarchy Label options from the column configuration structure in the MongoDB connector

Data connectivity

- Historic
- Streaming