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What if you administer an Alteryx gallery and wanted to verify that all macros are being correctly setup? Where would you even start?

The trick is knowing which candy you will get.

We've made changes to the Cognitive Services Text Analytics Connector to keep the tool more up-to-date and protect your workflows from future API updates!

Microsoft has stopped support for the Cognitive Services Text Analytics Topic Detection API, so we're removing the option and, since we're in there, updating the UI!

In the blog, “Top 10 Alteryx Server FAQs”, one of the top frequently asked questions on managing an Alteryx Server, is how to monitor the deployment. Whether it’s to adhere to a data governance program, to track your usage and ROI or how to best optimize your Alteryx Server, administrators need and want monitoring and reporting capabilities. To help with this, we are pleased to announce the availability of a new Alteryx Server Usage Reporting app. This workflow provides valuable data and insights to user access content, scheduled jobs and job analysis information about your server and can be visualized in either a Tableau Workbook or to a set of PDF and Excel files. You can begin your download by going to licenses.alteryx.com and clicking on the most recent Alteryx Server release link.

If you haven't had a chance, please checkout the Decision 2016 Presidential Election application. The app predicts who the winning candidate will be within a given U.S. neighborhood, as well as breaks down the outcome by demographics such as age, education, income, and race. Data from SurveyMonkey and the blending, spatial, predictive and Gallery API functions in Alteryx are used to create predictions that are beautifully displayed with help from Carto and Tableau. This post will walk through the architecture that was used to accomplish this.

Let's take a look at migrating the Alteryx Server storage from the default, "Embedded" MongoDB to "User-managed" MongoDB instance including deploying a Replica Set for redundancy...

This post introduces tools and tips useful for diagnosing a misbehaving Server…

Improving the throughput of a Private Server by adding an extra Queue Worker is surprisingly easy, requiring only a few short steps...

This post demonstrates tuning a Private Server installation by measuring total throughput for various configurations.  We’ll look at performance implications of scaling “up” versus “out,” and how a low-cost hardware upgrade may have a significant positive impact on performance.

We are very excited to be able to announce the launch of the Macro District in the Alteryx Analytics Gallery!