Alteryx Promote Ideas

One key challenge that we have is promoting regular canvasses (not just advanced analytics models).

It would be very useful if Promote could be made part of the core product of the server:

a) split the server into 1;2;3 environments (Dev; UAT; Prod)

b) Promote then manages the workflow to promote an asset between these environments, with a configurable workflow that allows for signoffs; diff checks; control checks (e.g. are people using tools in the right way; DB connection strings etc); and then writing a copy into the firm source-code repository.

c) Promote should also then change the links in canvasses to point to a prod version of the databases and APIs if relevant.

This process is currently extremely manual and labour intensive; so if we could apply the same Promote process to regular canvasses it would be a big time saving for our admin teams.

cc: @revathi

Some customers would like to log all inputs & outputs that go into each model. The goal is to save every JSON request and response with minimal (or no) impact to latency. 

So there we have a hosted version of Alteryx Server at gallery.alteryx.com

Why not to have a "hosted" version for Promote

• Would be possible to test it
• See example deployments
• Deploy basic models from Alteryx Trial to "Promote" trial
• Even this can generate a new revenue stream (pay as you score)

send application and server logs from a promote instance to Elasticsearch using logstash or fluentd

It would be extremely useful to have an option to paginate over the output of a Promote Alteryx model. 

For example, suppose the output of a model is :

[
{
"object_id": 1
"class" : 1
},
{
"object_id": 2
"class" : 0
}
...
]

...if that output contains hundred of thousands of items, it could be important to be able to paginate over that output instead of returning the whole thing at once and risking a timeout.