January 2024 release notes

Using ThoughtSpot Sync you can now sync data directly from an Answer or a custom SQL view, to your Snowflake or Redshift cloud data warehouse.

ThoughtSpot Sync allows you to connect and share complete Liveboards using Microsoft Teams and Slack. Previously, only Answers could be shared.

You can now review user feedback from the Data workspace, and determine whether it should apply to only that user’s queries, or to the entire cluster. Use the Query Feedback modal to review feedback given to individual natural language queries, and use the Query Term Feedback modal to review the translation of individual natural language terms to search tokens. For more information, see Sage Coach.

ThoughtSpot introduces custom sorting of attributes to sort all chart types in a way that helps users to consume charts more efficiently. Previously custom sorting could only be applied to an Answer using custom columns and the search bar, and could not be applied to some chart types. You can now sort on any column in a chart, in ascending or descending order, from the column heading menu. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

When giving feedback to AI-generated Answers in Sage, you now tell ThoughtSpot what search tokens to use to signify certain key terms. For example, when you search for "best performing products this year", ThoughtSpot responds with the top five products sorted by sum of sales. You can correct top five to top ten by clicking the thumbs-down icon and editing the Answer. ThoughtSpot then stores that feedback, and admin users and Worksheet owners can decide to apply the feedback globally, so that every time someone searches for "best" products, they receive the top ten results. For more information, see Give feedback to AI-generated Answers.

ThoughtSpot now preserves the filters you use on a KPI when you create a Monitor alert. Users with view access to the underlying Liveboard can now receive alert emails for filtered KPIs without saving the filters on the Liveboard. For more information, see Monitor alerts.

Change analysis More insights are now available to all customers and are enabled by default. For example, ThoughtSpot finds values that underwent the highest percentage change between the two data points defined in your analysis, and values whose share of the total changed the most. The insights appear below the main analysis in the change analysis pop-up window. Note that insights do not appear for measures of type count and ratios. For more information, see Change analysis.

When you receive an email alert about a threshold or scheduled alert, ThoughtSpot now surfaces any anomalies found in your KPI. You can see the expected range of values, and click a link to view your KPI in the original Liveboard. For more information, see Monitor.

When you add a KPI to your homepage watchlist, ThoughtSpot automatically creates a scheduled alert. You receive emails with updates to the KPI on a periodic basis. You can edit all scheduled alerts from the Monitor tab. For more information, see Track important KPIs.

Personalized views are now available to all users and on by default. Personalized views allow you to save your own set of values for filters and parameters in a Liveboard without editing the original Liveboard. You can change the values of the already present filters and parameters in a Liveboard and save the view for future use. Any changes made to the master Liveboard are carried over to the view, including changes made to pinned visualizations, tabs, filter chips, and re-ordering. Changes made to the view are not pushed to the master Liveboard. This eliminates the need to make multiple copies of a Liveboard with your preferred filter values, that can fall out of sync with the original.

Atlan is now available to all customers and is on by default. You can now see verification status and descriptions on tables and columns imported from Atlan. This information appears when you click on the corresponding table or column in Search data. Once connected, this information is visible to all users. For more information, see Atlan catalog integration.

Webhooks for Monitor are now available to all users and on by default. You can create webhooks to initiate workflows in third-party applications based on KPI changes, or send KPI alert notifications to custom channels. For example, if you are monitoring a "current inventory" KPI for an inventory management use case, you can build a workflow to trigger an order placement in a third-party app when your current inventory drops below a particular threshold value. For more information, see Webhooks for Monitor.

We have renamed the pie chart as donut chart. For more information, see Donut charts.

In this release, custom calendar is enabled by default for all connections, except for the following which don’t support custom calendar:

The following connections are now available to all customers and are on by default:

You can now create Redshift Connections using Redshift-managed PrivateLink, as well as AWS PrivateLink. For more information, see Enabling a Redshift-managed PrivateLink between ThoughtSpot Cloud and your Redshift data warehouse.

You can now import metadata information related to your tables and columns from Atlan into ThoughtSpot. From the Data tab, you can set up a connection to Atlan to import column descriptions, column verification status, table descriptions, and table verification status. For more information, see Atlan catalog integration.

You can now use the dbt public API to perform the following tasks:

If you do not have a valid OAuth access token, you can now directly navigate to the OAuth authorization screen when performing one of the following actions on a connection shared with you:

In accordance with Snowflake’s recent JDBC update, ThoughtSpot does not support Snowflake account names that contain underscores for connections that use Private Link. For more information on how to adjust your account name behavior to avoid this restriction, see Snowflake Private Link.

When an Org name is created, it becomes a subdomain of the cluster URL. As a DNS subdomain, an Org name cannot contain a space (' ') as a character. When used as a subdomain, any spaces in the Org name will be replaced with hyphens ('-').

Admin users can now ban passthrough functions for all connections on their cluster, to prevent SQL injection attacks. This option is available under the Search & SpotIQ section of the Admin tab.