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This may be a little controversial. As of today, when you buy an Alteryx Server, the basic package covers up to 4 cores :
https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Server-Knowledge-Base/How-Alteryx-defines-cores-for-licensing-our-products/ta-p/158030
I have always known that. But these last years, the technology, the world has evolved. Especially the number of cores in a server. As an example, AMD Epyc CPU for server begin at 8 cores :
https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-7002-series
So the idea is to update the number of cores in initial package for 8 or even 16 cores. It would :
-make Alteryx more competitive
-cost only very few money
-end some user frustration
Moreover, Alteryx Server Additional Capacity license should be 4 cores.
Best regards,
Simon
Good Day.
We would like a built-in process that would search or, and resolve, workflows that are stuck in the "initializing" state. These seem to happen for various reasons but communication problems between the controller and workers .. usually a socket timeout.. which appears to be most problematic. It seems that these type of errors should be expected in all but the most stable environments,
Currently, the only tool that we have to solve this problem is to restart the Alteryx Service on the controller and while this works there tendency to cause some collateral damage in workflows ...erroring or restarting from their beginning.
There may be a way to solve this without restarting the service by editing Mongo using a tool like Robo 3T but that is unproven and has its own risk.
After dealing with this issue and struggling for quiet some time we think that the best option is to implement a "clean up" DB process that will run every 5 min or so, capture a list of workflows in the "initializing" state , then compare that list to one in the next 5 min cycle and fix any workflows that appear in both lists. We think that returning any stuck workflows to the queued state would be the best Fix option.
We just don't want to continue to use Restart the Service process to solve this issue and accept the collateral damage.
Thank you for your consideration
Tom D
It would be nice having the ability to alter the timeout of the file upload on Alteryx Analytic Apps uploading to the Gallery. Having it restrained by time and not file size makes it so that users with poorer internet speeds will not even be able to upload moderate sized files.
Hey there,
Below you can see few of my suggestion to improve Alteryx Server.
Idea for Alteryx Server monitoring:
Give server more functionality with:
Hopefully you will find these suggestions interesting and useful.
Regards,
Aurimas
A better process Needed for Alteryx Backup and restore.
Please fix it ASAP,
When adding jobs to the queue via API call, you currently cannot specify the name of the job.
Running the job directly from gallery allows this as in the picture below, but there is no setting to do so in the API.
When a workflow is used in many different situations, being able to specify a name for the individual run will make tracking and troubleshooting easier.
Hi Server users,
It is amazing to know the permissions we have when accessing our own profile, but sometimes that is not enough. Knowing your server role is needed to perform a few tasks and it would be fantastic to have something simple like the example below.
Currently, only users themselves are able to setup the default worker tag in their My Profile page. To ensure efficient management of worker nodes, Server Admins or Curators should be allowed to set the default worker tags of gallery users, preferably in bulk. This will help avoid workflows to be executed using the wrong worker node.
Hi,
The schedules page on server needs an overhaul. Sorry to be so blunt but it is awful. It is by far the worst aspect of Alteryx and one of the most important at the same time.
Here are a few points about it...
1.) Sorting needs to be fixed as it doesn't work correctly (sorting on the first column, "Workflow", returns items that start with 'L', 'S' and a zero as the first three on the list), so looking for 1 scheduled item across 10+ pages of schedules becomes a "needle in a haystack" endeavor.
2.) There are no search and/or filter capabilities which would help alleviate the pain-point mentioned above.
3.) [Missing] items automatically removed from schedule when the workflow is removed from the server. It just jumbles up the screen with useless information.
4.) The 'Schedule' column doesn't need to reflect the name again like the 'Workflow' column. is a hyperlink and the other isnt. I cant tell you how many times I have clicked on the wrong hyperlink only to have to go back and deal with point #1 all over again. Can't it just be a simple calendar icon or something like that next to the Workflow name?
5.) While not as critical, but more of a 'nice to have' function. An ability to export the list of schedules would be helpful. If we ever need to divy up work for an employee that leaves the company it would be a good way to see all of the work they have out there and mark up the list to distribute info for reassignment purposes, etc.
I am sure there are other aspects I am missing, but here are the most important ones to me as an end-user (Not an Admin)
Thanks for listening. 🙂
We have a lot of Alteryx users that generate their workflows in Private Studios and set them up as scheduled Workflows, but the assigned Workers/job tags in Private Studio aren't carrying over to the scheduled workflow, which has to be updated by someone with higher access. This is creating a time consuming task for our administrator who have to update these scheduled workflows to make sure our unassigned Worker node isn't overloaded.
My company uses R Shiny and maybe in the future Python Dash to create multiple analytic apps, dashboards, etc for multiple people to run across our company. One thing that would be nice to to have these R Shiny workflows run off of the Alteryx Server as that would allow us to use Alteryx Server to keep permissions and ease of use.
I propose an update to the Alteryx Server that would allow for R Shiny apps to be run in the Alteryx Server with all functionality of custom R interactive plots, etc etc just like what you'd see in one hosted on a R Shiny Server.
The benefits of this would allow for my company to only have to manage one server instance (Alteryx) to run all of this. Since R/Python is allowed/used in Alteryx workflows already, can you add the ability to visualize R Shiny code/plots/interactions/etc within Alteryx Server itself?
This idea is to allow users to configure the file view option for a workflow running in the gallery that produces file outputs. Today, there are two views that a user can toggle between (see attachment), but I don't believe there's a way to change the default view. This idea is to change the setting as either a global gallery setting, on a workflow-by-workflow basis, or both.
We have end users that miss the drop down menu (and the file count next to the drop down, and the label we've added in the analytic app that says there will be two output files, and...), so they sometimes miss the second file entirely. Setting the default view to the "list view" rather than the drop down view could help alleviate that pain.
Note: The screenshots in the attachment show two Excel files that could be combined into one file with multiple tabs. This is a pain point for other workflows, as well, that produce outputs in multiple file formats.
Currently the default 'Rows Per Page' is set to 10 when within various pages on the Gallery.
As we add more and more Apps to our Gallery it would help to be able to increase the default so it is higher than 10.
This will help ensure users do not forget about or miss tools that are available to them which are hidden on other pages. Additionally, they will not need to remember what page to jump to if the App does not pull through to the first 10 rows, or prevent the need for them having to increase the number of 'Rows Per Page' themselves.
Improve Gallery scheduling to allow the end user to specify company denoted Holidays when scheduling a workflow. If the workflow is scheduled on a Holiday the schedule would not run. This should be configurable per workflow schedule. Example: A daily report Monday through Friday would be able to skip Holidays based off a Holiday exclusion list.
Hi all,
Having all the schedules/results centralized in the same place would be neat!
Option 1: Have all on the same page and have an additional column to describe the shared source.
Option 2: Have a separation between my own schedules and the ones shared with me.
Best,
Fernando Vizcaino
In the Alteryx Gallery Collections the Workflow Upload Date doesn't sort properly. Instead of sorting chronologically (ex: Jan first Dec last) it sorts by number (Dec goes before April because Dec starts with a 1 while April starts with a 4), see attached for an example.
it flips back and forth between 2022 and 2021
In the example November and December are first because the month starts with a 1. Then April follows because it starts with a 4. Then it starts to get messy because it does this:
That 2022 is in the middle purely because 4 < 5, that's not right.
I tried exploring the settings to see if I could change this but I didn't find an option to do so.
Two potential solutions:
As collections get big sorting for the most recent workflow becomes a nightmare with the current improper sorting mechanism.
If I'm mistaken and this option already exists please let me know.
Thanks!
Chris
It should be possible to schedule chained apps. Particularly useful when the first workflow in a chain runs a check and if the check returns true then the next workflows run and if the check returns false then the next workflow should not run.
Possibly related to:
Schedule Configured Analytic Apps - Alteryx Community
It would be great if there was a way to turn-off the validation processes associated with saving applications to a private gallery. Alteryx is an amazing workbench because it allows users to build a variety of correct solutions. However, we cannot publish several of our quite correct solutions because they don't pass the, as we see it unnecessary, validation requirements for saving to our private gallery. The issue, if unresolved, will be a roadblock in our application development and deployment process.
A couple examples..
Hello,
We recently upgraded our on-prem instance of Alteryx Server/Gallery to version: -
We have noticed that the search functionality in various areas (top and right-side) no longer return results using a "contains" but rather it is doing an "exact" or "starts with" keyword search. This is very frustrating to many users as we can't easily find our workflows quickly compared to previous versions.
Please improve search functionality.
This is a real flaw in the product (almost a bug), you cannot search for a schedule. We have about 150 jobs scheduled to run daily. If you want to amend the schedule you have to page next through all the schedules to find it. If you search for the workflow name, you get the workflow screen which does not contain a link to the schedules.
Also add a link to the schedules for each job on the workflow page. I.e. search for job ABC, see that it has 3 different schedules associated with it and be able to edit, or delete any of its schedules.
We have situations where some workflows that are scheduled end up having intermittent connection issues to other databases that result in the workflow running to timeout. The timeout settings are set in the server, but it would be nice if you could set an override value for a lesser timeout in the runtime settings for individual workflows and basically use the server setting as a not to exceed value. We have a multi-node environment with multiple worker nodes and about 250 artisans. We have some regularly scheduled workflows taking the full amount of time in the timeout setting and obviously if a couple of normally quick running workflows ran to timeout that causes issues with the queue.
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