Hey there,
Below you can see few of my suggestion to improve Alteryx Server.
Idea for Alteryx Server monitoring:
- Increase data what could be seen on workflow results.
- Possibly create a report with filter option (to filter by user, gallery, workflow and etc.), which would at least contain data like:
- Successfully ran workflows, count, percentage.
- Failure rates, counts and etc.
- Live data for monitoring purposes.
- etc.
- Possibility to connect to workflow results data (live data) with other tools like Tableau or Power BI to create dashboards and etc. to monitor and act on the error as soon as possible.
- Give a chance for other users to check on the workflow statuses and etc same like workflow owner.
Give server more functionality with:
- Ability for server automatically retry workflow based on configurations: in example:
- retry flow in specific time (for example in 30 minutes)
- number of possible retries
- based on specific workflow (other) results ability to trigger to run another workflow
- (Maybe there is a better way) ability to run macros which would for example open MS Excel, and run macro inside it. I have some of the workflows where workflow opens excel, runs macro inside, that macro triggers special Add In which connects to Essbase, it pulls the data, saves excel file, and then alteryx continues working with the file. So if such or similar workflows could be run on Server that would be awesome.
- This is extremely exiting one: possibility to create environment for self-service users, which it would not be something like gallery (because gallery is more suitable for Alteryx Designers/users).
- in that one environment admin could grant access for user and tick what specific user could see and run.
- so for admin it would be one environment, and user would see only what is needed for him/her.
- in that environment user would also be able to schedule self-service workflows to be received in example by email, or BOX drive or any other way. Scheduled workflow would have to be approved by an admin before it would be actually scheduled.
- I have not tried this one myself, but that would also be great if all alteryx server environment could be accessed by mobile devices (of course, some features would be limited).
Hopefully you will find these suggestions interesting and useful.
Regards,
Aurimas
