ThoughtSpot Cloud Documentation

February 2025 10.6.0.cl

Where previously you could ask questions in natural language in Slack using the ThoughtSpot app, you can now use Spotter to conversationally search your data in Slack. Follow-up questions remain within the same thread, preserving context. Pin a Worksheet or Model to a channel to ensure quick access to data from that Worksheet or Model. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For more information, see Spotter in Slack.

Filters and parameters that are not relevant to a tab are hidden by default when you open and view a Liveboard. You can choose to view all filters and parameters, including those that are not relevant to the tab, so that you can quickly create a new view or download the Liveboard without having to switch tabs and apply filters individually.

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Apply filters to specific visualizations or tabs.

In this release, we provide new options for sorting and filtering Answers and Liveboards, as well as the option to export them to TML. These options are available in the homepage, as well as the Liveboards and Answers pages of the Insights app in the new navigation and homepage experience. The options include the following:

To confirm you are using the new navigation and homepage, go to your user profile and make sure Navigation and Homepage is set to New experience. For more information, see Home page.

Gradient-based conditional formatting is now available to all users and on by default. You can now choose multiple colors to define a gradient in charts that support gradients — geo heatmap, geo area, heatmap, and treemap charts. You can control the low, mid, and high values, and numerical value points to customize the gradient.

For more information, see Change chart colors.

ThoughtSpot users can now create bins for aggregate results in query sets. This feature allows you to create groups based on bins of specified sizes with minimum and maximum values. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information see, Query sets.

You can now pass filters from a query into a set definition without needing to remake the set to include the filter. For example, if you create a query set defined as a list of SKUs that are ranked based on sales, where 1 through 10 are defined as Gold, 11 through 50 are defined as Silver, and the remainder are defined as Bronze, you can now add a filter such as Region. You can configure the set’s filter behavior from the TML, instructing ThoughtSpot to exclude or include specific columns, or to accept all filters by default. To enable query sets, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Passthrough filters for query sets.

Advanced conditional formatting is now available to all users and on by default. In addition to using conditional formatting to visually highlight a threshold in a measure (for example, sales > 10000), you can now use conditional formatting to compare a column’s measures to another column. For example, if you search for sales this year compared to sales last year, you can highlight where sales this year were less than last year. You can set multiple conditional formatting rules to a single table.

For more information, see Advanced conditional formatting.

Custom comparison points for KPI charts are now on by default and available to all users. Previously, time-series KPI charts had limited options when comparing to past periods. For example, a weekly KPI could be compared against the previous week, the previous month’s same week, the previous quarter’s same week, or the previous year’s same week. Now, you can set a custom point in data against which ThoughtSpot compares the most recent data point, any number of weeks ago. This feature is applicable to all KPIs including time keywords like weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Your chosen comparison point persists for all viewers of the KPI. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see KPI charts.

We made the following changes to change analysis for KPI charts:

In this release, we introduce Optimize for Spotter. It is an easier way of indexing the Worksheet and Model attribute columns required for accurate searches on specific column values in Spotter. After enabling Sage on a Worksheet or Model and clicking the Optimize for Spotter button, ThoughtSpot detects which columns are not indexed and allows you to index the ones you need for Spotter. For more information, see Optimize for Spotter.

You can now reorder the parameters in Liveboards and Answers, in the same way that you can reorder filters. When you edit a Liveboard or Answer to reorder the parameters and save your changes, the new order is reflected when anyone opens the Liveboard or Answer.

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Reorder parameters in Liveboards and Answers.

Custom charts are now available to all users and on by default. Custom charts allow you to use charts created outside of ThoughtSpot, including from third-party chart libraries. For more information, see Custom charts.

ThoughtSpot introduces a brand new pivot table chart. The new pivot table charts have the following features:

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Pivot table charts.

You can now run change analysis on queries that contain group aggregate expressions.

The ThoughSpot Connected Slides add-on for Google Slides has the following new features:

We’ve introduced the Spotter Conversations Liveboard to give you real-time visibility into user interactions with Spotter. With this Liveboard, administrators can:

For more information, see Spotter Conversations Liveboard.

You can now create connections from ThoughtSpot to ClickHouse. To enable this feature, contact your administrator. For more information, see ClickHouse.

The Data model editor has enhanced error messaging to help you understand and fix errors. Global errors, like a session expiring or an error when saving changes, are now displayed in a pop-up window. Local errors, associated with a specific tab, display a red dot on the tab and a banner under the tab after it is selected.

In this release, we’ve added new security log events for creating, updating, and deleting the following:

You can access security logs from ThoughtSpot by pushing the logs to your SIEM server, or by pulling the logs using the Audit Logs API. For more information, see Collect security logs.

Rather than using a system-generated GUID to identify individual objects in TML files, you can now manually set an object property (obj_id) with a uniqueness constraint on the Org level. This allows you to manage content across multiple Orgs without having to manually change the GUID of an object each time you move it between Orgs. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For more information, see User-defined ID in TML.

ThoughtSpot now allows you to assign different configurations when creating a connection, to run row count stats and keep them separate from other process and user queries. Use this feature to help with auditing and tracking your cloud data warehouse usage by user and process. Optimize costs by assigning the right resources to the right process and users.

To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

Import and export users, groups, roles, and privileges programmatically, using ThoughtSpot Modeling Language. Use this feature to migrate from one environment to another. This feature can be used so that user, group, and role configurations do not need to be recreated. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Managing users, Managing groups, Understand RBAC and privileges.

You can now use TML to define a list of associated columns that must be included in a search if a certain column is added. This allows you to make sure users do not remove necessary context from a search by removing a column. To enable this feature, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

For more information, see Mandatory columns.

ThoughtSpot now supports multifactor authentication (MFA) for customers using local authentication powered by Enhanced IAM with IAM v2. Use MFA to enable secure access to your ThoughtSpot instance for your local auth users by introducing an additional authentication factor configurable at the cluster level. We support Okta Verify, Google Authenticator, and Email-based time-based one-time passcode (TOTP) authentication with ThoughtSpot MFA.

For more information, see Multifactor authentication for customers using local authentication.

All ThoughtSpot Enterprise clusters will get enabled with Orgs by default starting with this release. Your environment remains a single-tenant environment until you create an Org. You can delete all the Orgs you created and use only the Primary Org if you want a single-tenant environment with Orgs enabled.

For more information, see Multi-tenancy with Orgs.

You can now give feedback on AI-generated Answers in Spotter without interrupting your searching conversation. When marking an Answer incorrect, you can now edit the underlying search, save, and review the search query tokens making up the Answer. If you mark an Answer correct, you can review and save the underlying search query tokens so Spotter remembers your choices in the future for similar questions.

For more information, see Coach Spotter within a conversation.

ThoughtSpot’s org context for sharing links is now available to all users and enabled by default. URLs in emails now include Org context so that users are taken directly to the correct Liveboard in the correct Org even if they belong to multiple Orgs. You can also move between different browser tabs that point to different Orgs. To enable this feature, contact your administrator.

For more information, see Org context for sharing links.

For new features and enhancements introduced in this release of ThoughtSpot Embedded, see ThoughtSpot Developer Documentation.