May 2025

Overview

This month's release notes introduce a suite of impactful updates designed to enhance visibility, automation, and workspace organization in Sift. Highlights include the new Table Viewer, which provides a high-fidelity view of telemetry data; support for programmatic logic with external Rules; webhooks to trigger external workflows; the ability to archive Assets and Runs; and improved file uploads. These updates help streamline your workflows and enhance your ability to work with data efficiently.

New: Trigger external workflows with webhooks (Beta)

• Overview: Webhooks allow you to automatically trigger external workflows whenever a Rule condition is violated, enabling seamless integration between Sift and your operational stack. Built-in support for tools like Slack, PagerDuty, and more helps streamline responses to issues as they arise. To learn more, see Webhooks (Beta).
• Unlocked: Rule violations can now trigger outbound webhooks, enabling automated connections between Sift and external systems, such as Microsoft Teams, Slack or PagerDuty.

New: View high-fidelity data in the Table Viewer (Beta)

• Overview: The Table Viewer displays raw telemetry in a high-fidelity table format, allowing users to inspect and filter exact values aligned with time series charts. This structured view is ideal for pinpoint analysis and precise data review. To learn more, see Table Viewer.
• Unlocked: You can now perform detailed, time-aligned reviews of telemetry data, identify anomalies with greater precision, and correlate events across Channels using an interactive, filterable table view.

New: Integrate external Rules into CI/CD workflows

• Overview: External Rules let you evaluate custom logic on demand via the Sift API, making them ideal for automated and programmatic workflows like CI/CD. These Rules operate outside the UI, are temporary by design, and can produce Annotations that appear in Reports. To learn more, see Manage external Rules.
• Unlocked: You can now automate Rule evaluation in pipelines, generate annotations programmatically, and integrate Sift's logic engine into external systems without relying on the UI.

New: Archive Assets and Runs

• Overview: You can now archive Assets and Runs in Sift to declutter your workspace without losing data. Archived items are hidden from the main view but remain accessible via the archive filter, preserving historical records while maintaining a clear day-to-day focus.
• Unlocked: You can now streamline your workspace by hiding inactive or outdated items, stay focused on current work, and still retain access to complete historical context when needed.

New: Monitor upload status and errors

• Overview: Uploading CSV and TDMS files in Sift now shows real-time progress indicators and more explicit error messages. These enhancements enhance transparency, making it easier to diagnose and resolve issues during data import.
• Unlocked: You can now confidently track file upload progress, quickly identify problems, and ensure smoother, more reliable data ingestion.

Improvement: View documentation by domain and content type

• Overview: The public-facing documentation has been reorganized into two main sections: UI and API. Each section is now structured around four content types: Tutorials, How-to guides, Reference, and Explanations. At launch, only the How-to guides and Reference materials are available, with Tutorials and Explanations to be added incrementally.
• Unlocked: You can now find documentation more easily, with a clearer separation between UI and API content and a structure that aligns with best practices for accessibility and discoverability.

What is coming next

• User-defined metadata (GA): Future updates will enable the standardization of key creation through admin control, improve search and filtering, and provide metadata across all resource types.
• Explore redesign (Beta): The Explore (page) experience will be significantly upgraded, featuring advanced charting and visualization capabilities. Contact us to join the Beta!
• Enterprise user management: Shortly, you will be able to integrate your Identity Provider (IdP) with Sift, enabling secure and streamlined group management directly through your existing IdP setup.

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