Alteryx Server - Processing, Storage and a few other doubts

Question

Morning all!

Recently me and my company are debating about acquiring Alteryx Server. However, there are a few doubts that we can't find out about.

1. About processing time, would it be the same? If a workflow in designer (with database connection) takes 4minutes to run, would it run in the same interval if ran by a random user in server?

2. About storage, do we have a limit for that? I mean, all the logs and information related to workflows being ran.

3. Also about processing time, if we schedule several workflows, would it suffer from concurrent access and bug? Does it have extra delays to run?

4. How does Alteryx Server interact with Tableau Server? Can we schedule a workflow that uses Tableau to create a report and send an e-mail automatically with e-mail tool in alteryx? (after tableau updates the dashboard)

5. How does Alteryx Server interact with UI PATH? If a random user runs the workflow and not have ui path installed on his machine, would the workflow work?

I would be awesome if someone could give me some hints about this and any other tips I am not paying attention to.

Thanks in advance.

MarqueeCrew · Answer

It depends.

1: the in database execution should be unchanged. What happens inside the Alteryx workflow should be consistent but how you setup the server and what the concurrent usage looks like could affect your execution.

2: Don't save to your c drive.  If your logs get saved, be a good custodian and archive them. Do get as large and as fast internal drive for temp space.  Do get a large drive too for storage of frequently used and slowly updated data.

3:  Running multiple processes with competing needs for memory, cpu or disk will slow you down.  AMP use could  magnify that.  If you're running multiple jobs that sit and wait for database data, and a mix of other jobs it's entirely different than trying to do things like executing huge memory or Chou jobs.   You u also may benefit from being closer on the network to your NAS.

4:  load to tableau can be followed by an email.

5: idk 🤷🏻‍♂️

cheers,

mark