Countly Server Version v22.08

Fixes:

• [core] fix member image endpoint, replace session id with member id
• [dashboards] fixed user overview shows same 'number' for total, returning and new.
• [push] logging sender crashes
• [push] removing EE dependencies from CE
• [star-rating] fix for platform and app version
• [ui] color mismatch is fixed between legend and chart line in multi-legends as chart data changes
• [ui] improvement of selected tab on multiline select element

Features:

• [long-tasks] allowing to kill long tasks on DB side
• [push] allowing on-event auto push in CE

Enterprise fixes:

• [ab-testing] improved detail page
• [cohorts] fixing special period handling
• [config-transfer] fixed dashboards export
• [data-manager] Fix transform event drawer regex input
• [funnels] changes for funnel datepicker
• [gateway_processor] fixed processing on error
• [gateway_processor] localization and menu fixes for new UI
• [group] fixes for ui
• [surveys] fixed total responses NaN
• [users] refresh user details page

Enterprise features:

• [data-manager] data redacting for user properties
• [oidc] work with new permissions
• [retention_segments] breakdown by segments
• [revenue] revenue widget for the custom dashboard
• [users] breakdown of users by segments

Countly 22.06: where the future of analytics starts

2023 marks the 10th-year anniversary of our first release 🤩. In this time, we have learned a lot about user experience, clients’ data needs, and the overall impact of sharing and actioning on analytics data.

Factoring in all that knowledge, how the industry operates, and our clients’ feedback, we are happy to present to you Countly 22.06, setting us up to hit that anniversary in the most spectacular shape ever.

You can read more about the release in our blog here or view a detailed list of all changes here.

Countly 22.06 Highlights

1️⃣ More Secure User Management

• Manage the access of users/groups to data and functionalities of individual features.

Read the User Guide here.

2️⃣ Improved Data Manager

Better capabilities when

• planning incoming event data;
• managing data types for events and user properties;
• merging data with incoming and/or existing data; and
• modifying event segments or user properties.

Read the User Guide here.

3️⃣ Configurable Flows

• Customize points within Flows to include/exclude specific steps (which saves data points)
• New Sankey visualization

Read the User Guide here.

4️⃣ Improved Home

• Customization of the widgets that compose Home view.

5️⃣ Reworked Drills

• Improved calculated totals for queries - up to 10x faster in some cases.
• New segmentation logic of ‘OR’ queries.
• New cumulative query results visualization.

Read the User Guide here.

6️⃣ Powered-up Dashboards

• Simplified widget creation.
• More visualizations available for data types.
• Enhanced Drill and Flows widgets.
• Customizable access based on individual users or user groups.

Read the User Guide here.

7️⃣ Easier Events Overview

• Consolidation of Events and key metrics in a single view.

Read the User Guide here.

8️⃣ Better Hooks

• New ‘Scheduled Hooks’, triggered in a customizable frequency.
• Execute JavaScript code via a hook.

Read the User Guide here.

9️⃣ Entire Facelift

• Fixed and improved the entire UI.
• Improved filtering across features.
• New map visualization.

Get the future started today!
🚀 Find instructions to install or upgrade to Countly 22.06.
💡 Questions? Check out our release FAQ.
🏆 Need help? Create a support ticket or review the user forum in our Community Area.

v21.11

We are thrilled to announce the release of the latest Countly Community Edition - Version 21.11! 🙌

And with it, we are expanding the Community Edition with four new features: Dashboards, Remote Config, Hooks, and reCAPTCHA.
With this new version, you get even more innovative, secure, and super-powerful analytics that are as free and open-source as they should always be.
Read all about Countly Community Edition 21.11 👉 here.

Here’s a brief summary:

1️⃣ Dashboards

Create fully customizable dashboards fed with the data from your other Countly features that best fit your KPIs. Deploy the charts, graphs, tables, and widgets you or your teams need to have in one easy-to-find and easy-to-understand place to never lose track of the metrics that are the most important to you.

Learn more about Dashboards
Dashboards User Guide

2️⃣ Remote Config

Change the behavior or features of your app remotely without the need of publishing an app update or having to edit its code. Define default parameters in your app, and then use Remote Config to push editions that your users will see in your app based on conditions that you configure. Fast and simple.

Learn more about Remote Config
Remote Config User Guide

3️⃣ Hooks

Think of Hooks as a bridge that can capture data inside/outside Countly, pipeline actions via Countly, and then send the data inside/outside Countly. With this fantastic feature, convert event-related data as triggers that will then send this data by HTTP requests and/or as emails. With Hooks, use Countly as the bridge with which you can keep external CRM tools, your inboxes, and more always informed of the events you must never lose track of.

Learn more about Hooks
Hooks User Guide

4️⃣ reCAPTCHA

And to top it off, Countly Community Edition 21.11 comes with reCAPTCHA as a brand new free feature to enhance user login security, and keep your data more secure than ever.

Learn more about reCAPTCHA

✅ Upgrading to Countly Community Edition 21.11

Check out our installation or upgrade instructions.
If you need help, we’re here for you, so drop us a line or review the user forum in our Community Area.

With Data love 💚,
Countly Team

v20.11.2

Fixes

• [analytics] fixed top calculation to be the same in all places
• [api] more aggregated data checks for merging metrics
• [api] remove all trailing $ symbols in events
• [configs] fix refreshing value when updating config
• [config] subdirectory cases for localhost calls
• [crashes] updated app version column header
• [export] use internal request processor instead of localhost for request exports
• [logger] remove sdk mismatch warning as they should be fully cross compatible
• [populator] add populator tag to all generated users
• [push] batched sent messages deletion
• [push] dealing with autocompletion for other credentials
• [push] extra check on multiple “send” button clicks in a row
• [push] fixing unsuccessfull message compilation for highly-concurrent cases
• [push] full support for transactional notifications
• [push] missing notification header in some cases
• [push] missing personalization tooltips on preview
• [push] wording fix for expiration description
• [reports] fixing link when countly works from subdirectory
• [server-stats] changed format of dp reports
• [sources] fixed direct calculation logic
• [star-rating] feedback sticker style bug fixed
• [views] fix view postprocessing with dots in names
• [views] fixed view export file name
• [views] show view names in graph tooltips

Enterprise fixes

• [active_users] emphasize that Active user totals are average
• [attribution] fix fetching data on period change in campaign details
• [block] fix displaying internal event names
• [cohorts] fixed limit of 800K users
• [cohorts] less memory usage for cohort calculation
• [cohorts] run tasks in series
• [concurrent-users] fixed on data breakdown in the view
• [dashboards] allow single app, multi event, single metric
• [drill] allow selecting OR for numbers and dates
• [drill] change user property view name to last view
• [drill] fixed week 53 problem
• [drill] unique user count fixed in multi BY queries
• [formulas] fixed visual bug for no buckets case
• [funnels] fixed "times" number not displayed properly
• [populator] heat map fixed
• [retention_segments] user merge sharding fix
• [survers] fixed bug when survey becomes visible again
• [surveys] fixed exporting surveys data appear as [object Object]
• [users] changed "fac" column as "First seen on" and "fs" as "First session"
• [users] correctly display purchase data
• [users] fix cohorts queries for export

Improvements

• [alerts] add support for Data Point alerts
• [api] add new metric, manufacturer
• [crashes] added binary images view to CE
• [populator] allow overriding
• [push] added search to select lists
• [push] proxy support for attachment HEADing
• [security] add enabling/disabling autocomplete on login forms
• [server-stats] added command line support

Enterprise Improvements

• [crashes] automatic crash symbolication
• [dashboards] changed selected event limit from 3 to 5
• [flows] add configuration for maxSampleSize
• [formulas] allow selecting numerical user properties too
• [groups] allow multi group assignment to users
• [hooks] add processing of some internal events like views, crashes, performance, etc
• [ldap] separate ldap plugin
• [performance-monitoring] allow custom time filtering in performance monitoring
• [push] add event segmentation to push personalisation options
• [retention_segments] added minimal weighted calculation method
• [surveys] allow custom logo upload
• [surveys] allow duplicating surveys
• [surveys] allow text customizations
• [symbolication] do not display very long error names in full
• [views] correctly postprocess views in Drill
• [whitelabelring] override logo in email template too

Development related

• [api] count all merges
• [api] refactored versionCompare and added unit tests for it
• [docker] Adding which to CentOS API image & removing pystan in debian image
• [reportmanager] debbug logs for rerunning tasks
• [scripts] getting rid of global grunt and adding sass to build steps

v20.11.1

Fixes

• [apps] application settings Save button fixed
• [consolidate] UI fixes
• [events] fixed displaying long segents in events table
• [events] fixed issue when updating event description doesn't work
• [events] top events - check for deleted events
• [push] fixed APN issue when DNS returns 1 IP
• [star-rating] first emotion size problem fixed
• [two-factor-auth] fxied when session was enabled before OTP verification
• [UI] date picker behavior improvements
• [UI] provide notification popup to notify about incomplete upgrade
• [views] fixed edit views table export
• [views] fixed showing renamed view name in table

Enterprise fixes

• [active_directory] fix retrieving email address for azure auth
• [ab-testing] centos 8 support
• [cohorts] allow to treat some lists as numbers
• [cohorts] allow using numbers in AND statements
• [cohorts] fix is set filling on cohort edit
• [cohorts] improve cohort overview loading with more than 100 cohorts
• [crash_symbols] changed the wording of debug symbol files
• [dashboards] disable confirm popup on custom dashboard screenshots
• [dashboards] fixed colors for white theme
• [dashboards] remove dashboard user when user deleted
• [drill] aggregated data regeneration fixed when daylight saving time occurs
• [drill] handle arrays properly in meta generations
• [formulas] don't allow to use same name and improve the messages on pop-up(s)
• [funnels] improve funnel overview loading
• [funnels] store funnel data in gridfs for report manager to allow large data storage
• [okta] fixed issuer url
• [remote-config] fixed not loading remote config list when there are many values
• [retention_segments] correct retention type descriptions
• [retention_segments] links to user profiles should be removed from tooltips
• [surveys] fixed All Time selection
• [users] fix increasing event count in sessions table
• [users] fixed ignoring query in user profile list on large quantity of custom properties
• [views] fixed heat maps

Enterprise Improvements

• [concurrent_users] less writes on data ingestion
• [concurrent_users] show Max Concurrent Online Users in the analytics section
• [dashboards] allow font customizations for notes widget
• [dashboards] allow separate period in some widgets
• [funnels] add caching mode options for bigger data
• [groups] allow space in group id
• [retention_segments] add configurable size to days in retention in custom dashboards
• [retention_segments] display percentages in the cells in custom dashboards
• [users] Adding push tokens & geo to user filter
• [users] exported files allow to have formatted date

Development related

• [api] fixed output error log
• [api] respond 200 on checksum fails to allow process rest of requests
• [auth_plugins] use member utility
• [crash_symbols] add a log for errors when testing symbolication server
• [crash_symbols] added a script to test symbolication server connection
• [jobs] Relaxing IPC timeout
• [logs] output version and plugin set on proces start
• [mongodb] latest driver fixes
• [scripts] added Centos 8 and Ubuntu 20 support
• [scripts] removed CentOS 6 support
• [timezones] updated timezone information
• [users] allow to query user details by uid and did values in API
• [users] expose more user properties in user profiles view

v20.11

Countly 20.11 includes over 300+ new features, optimizations, security tightening. We are one release stronger in our commitment to an all-in-one product analytics experience that's as secure as it gets!

You can read more about 20.11 release in our blog post. If you'd like to view a detailed list of all changes please see here.

For Countly Server upgrade instructions, please see here.

Highlights for Enterprise Edition

• Surveys - Make the voice of your customer part of your analytics strategy using surveys. Ask up to 5 questions in a single survey, customize the appearance & behaviour and target your surveys based on in-app behaviour & properties of your users. Available for mobile and web apps.

• Net Promoter® Score - Measure your customer experience using Net Promoter® Score (NPS®) surveys. Customize the follow-up question based on the given score, target the NPS® survey based on in-app behaviour & properties of your users, visualize the NPS® as part of the customer journey.

• Hooks - Trigger external HTTP endpoints & receive emails based on incoming data and internal events such as a user entering a cohort or a user profile getting updated. A brand new way to use the power of Countly data to feed external systems.

• Activity Maps - Visualize the session & custom event data in country, state and city level detail in the brand new activity maps. Navigate to the list of user profiles from any of the detail levels to dig into the individual user behaviour.

• Funnels - Configure each individual funnel to be calculated based on whether steps are performed in a single session or across multiple sessions and fine-tune your customer journey analysis.

Highlights for Community and Enterprise Editions

• Optimized Core - An improved data ingestion system, that has optimized data inserts and updates giving you up to 10x data write performance compared to previous Countly versions.

• Huawei Push Kit - Send push notifications to Huawei devices using the Huawei Push Kit integration. Use Huawei Push Kit to deliver push notifications to your entire Android user base, or use it side by side with Firebase Cloud Messaging.

• Custom Event Grouping - A new way to explore your custom event data. Create custom event groups by selecting the individual custom events to be included in your group and visualize your grouped custom event data inside the All Events section.

• Consolidate - A new plugin that lets you create apps that consolidate data from other apps. When configured, a consolidated app combines data from the selected apps and makes it available as a single app within your dashboard.

• Customizable Email Reports - Customize your email reports and select which data points you would like to get reports on. If you choose to have custom events in your email reports, you can select the individual custom events to be included.

SDK updates

For all Countly SDKs please see here.

Read before upgrading

Countly now supports only WiredTiger as a storage engine for MongoDB. Before upgrading make sure you are using WiredTiger as a storage engine and migrate your data if you are not.

v20.04.1

Fixes

• [api] make sure location is string
• [api] skip empty bulk requests
• [cmd] fix logging of upgrade commands
• [configuration] plugin settings in app managament treat number like number
• [crashes] log bulk error on crash users upsert
• [dbviewer] fixed projection problem
• [enterpriseinfo] more space to login area
• [frontend] fix empty template load in application management
• [frontend] fixed admins accessing applications section
• [frontend] fixed error when checking user_of rights
• [frontend] period parsing fixes
• [members] maintain backwards compatability for api key validation
• [plugin-upload] fix file type check
• [populator] allow providing single digit values as custom user properties in templates
• [push] fixing unhandled rejection on delete of notification with invalid id
• [reportmanager] delete long tasks on app delete
• [server-stats] punchcard comply with rights access
• [star-rating] fix dialog to work with checksum enabled apps
• [star-rating] fixed integration popup problem
• [star-ratings] fixed comments tab sorting problem
• [systemlogs] fix exports script for new driver version
• [views] correct localization based on app type
• [views] fixed incorrect result when searching for specific views

Enterprise fixes

• [ab-testing] fixed user merging logic for ab testing experiments
• [ab-testing] shallow copy bug fix
• [attribution] correctly calculating campaign level aggregated data
• [cohorts] do not crash if cohort does not exist for widget
• [cohorts] moved back to master process for usage in push campaigns
• [concurrent_users] handling metric labels overflow
• [dashboards] fixed double zoom on drill widget period switch
• [drill] correctly check query type for api parameter
• [drill] fixed date processing error in some cases
• [drill] fixed duration formatting for BY queryes and dashboard widgets
• [drill] fixed recording orientation key
• [drill] limit line count in graph based on settings color count for BY queries
• [drill] proper event key escaping/unescaping processing
• [drill] use BY limit from configuration correctly
• [flows] use view display name in flow diagram
• [formulas] correctly regenerate formulas data in report manager
• [formulas] fixed NaN/no data issue for weekly buckets
• [funnels] fixed calculating funnel data for past periods
• [loyalty] fix segmentation filter
• [performance-monitoring] apm tables sorting fixes
• [performance-monitoring] fix drill query period
• [performance-monitoring] tabs navigation bug fix
• [performance-monitoring] unknown value fix
• [star-rating] drill icon will only appear on ratings tab

Improvements

• [compare] increased app/event compare limit to 20
• [db] support for mongodb DNS seed list connection string
• [frontend] add links to events in event overview
• [frontend] remove password field when creating users from Global admin
• [ip_store] store ip address as custom user property (disabled by default)
• [logger] allow searching for request contents in search field
• [logger] register data for tokens on top level
• [logger] register requests with ms precision
• [performance-monitoring] network response latency overall percentages and breakdown by country
• [populator] add more template based views with heatmap data for web app type
• [remote-config] add support for does not contain
• [reportmanager] display errors in the report manager table

Enterprise Improvements

• [block] do not require segmentation for blocking events
• [funnels] display readable stepnames for custom dashboards widgets
• [users] display search input if any value is provided in it
• [users] make segments and segment values searchable and exportable in event timeline

Development related

• [api] provide a way to bypass checksum check for programmatic request
• [cmd] add new plugin creation command
• [docker] Invalid A/B testing model location for debian
• [docker] Removing unnecessary plugins
• [docker] fixed disappearing timzeone
• [docs] comment fixes and documentation generation stucture
• [frontend] allow skipping columns from export
• [plugins] ensure events propagate to all plugins on single plugin failure
• [scripts] single mongodb installation script (that can be used standalone)
• [shellcheck] fixes and CI checks
• [tests] increased timeouts and removed ambigiousness

v20.04

Countly 20.04 includes over 200+ new features, optimizations, security tightening. We are one release stronger in our commitment to an all-in-one product analytics experience that's as secure as it gets!

You can read more about 20.04 release in our blog post. If you'd like to view a detailed list of all changes please see here.

For Countly Server upgrade instructions, please see here.

Highlights for Enterprise Edition

• Performance Monitoring - Keep track of your applications' backend API requests, perform code level profiling with your own custom performance metrics and measure your application start and page load times. Find out performance issues within your application and fix them for a better customer experience.

• Cohorts - A fresh and powerful new design for the cohorts UI. Explore changes in your cohorts in the overview section, dive into individual cohort details to visualize cohort changes over time & explore common metrics of users in a cohort. Compare in app behavior of customers in different cohorts to understand and serve them better.

• Formulas - Session duration and users in a cohort can now be used as parameters in your formulas. Furthermore, each parameter in your formulas can now be filtered using default/custom user properties and event segments for sharper fine tuning & detailed analysis.

• Funnels & Cohorts & A/B Testing - Using the new OR operator you can create funnels, cohorts and A/B testing goals that have a larger scope. For instance, first step of a funnel can now be constructed using 3 separate custom events, or a single cohort can group users based on whether they triggered an event or the other.

• Dashboards - Your dashboards are now a lot more powerful thanks to our new and improved widgets. Display multiple cohorts on a bar chart, visualize changes over time for multiple cohorts, use the number widget for your formulas, compare & contrast previous period data in your drill & formulas widgets.

Highlights for Community and Enterprise Editions

• Crashes & Errors - We have made quite a few optimizations in crash analytics including two new, very important metrics in overview: Crash free users and crash free sessions. These metrics will let you stay on top of your overall customer experience and address problems before they start to impact your business.

• Data Populator - We have added templating concept to the data populator. It comes with 5 default templates for banking, healthcare, navigation, e-commerce & gaming and you can create your own templates to populate data that is relevant for your use case.

• Ratings & Feedback - We have added a few extra configuration options for your feedback widgets. Add comment and Contact me via e-mail options can now be toggled for each widget. You can also choose from 3 different widget trigger button sizes to find the perfect fit for your application.

• Views - Your page or screen view names are not always easy to understand, especially for non-technical people looking at the reports. Using the display name configuration option in Analytics → Views, you can now customize names for all your views.

• MAU, WAU and DAU - Monthly, weekly and daily active user visualization is now available under Analytics → Users. MAU, WAU and DAU is also displayed on a 30 day time series graph so that you can stay on top of your active user trends.

SDK updates

For all Countly SDKs please see here.

v19.08.1

Fixes

• [EChartMap] refactor library loading
• [EchartMap] fixed date change refresh bug
• [api] fixed i/tasks/name - calling correct function
• [api] fixed total user correction for server side models
• [api] increase user count in aggregated data for country when country changes
• [crashes] fixed crash menu arrow
• [crashes] update minidump
• [events] fixed getting undefined _activeEvent in some situations
• [events] fixed issue with hiding/showing event whan there is '.' in event name
• [events] fixed issue with matching events in frontend if their keys have special symbols like "&" in them
• [frontend] changed duration display format
• [frontend] fixed check for admin apps (some sections that should be shown to admin, where not visible)
• [frontend] fixed chrome autofill prevention
• [frontend] fixed countries screen color problem
• [frontend] fixed keeping filtered events after changing segments
• [frontend] fixed localization for visits in top
• [frontend] fixed total user correction in 0 cases
• [frontend] fixed unknown country check
• [frontend] fixed uploading app icon on first app screen
• [frontend] fixes for 0 values having colors on the map
• [frontend] improved Internet Explorer 11 support
• [logger] let large texts scroll in table cell
• [prelogin] fixed issue with showing messages in forgot page
• [push] GCM Deprecation
• [push] included in data migration
• [push] show only for mobile type
• [scripts] fixed db upgrade script running as separate script
• [sdk] updated bundled Web SDK
• [views] view deletion added in systemlogs

Enterprise fixes

• [attribution] prevent user from creating campaign ID with " or '
• [cohorts] cohort drawer ui bugs fixed
• [concurrent_users] fixed alerts table
• [crash_symbols] order the symbols when fetching to always use last symbol if multiple same symbols provided
• [crashes-jira] fixed check for correct crashes view
• [dashboards] fixed user estimation correction in custom dashboards
• [drill] fixed country map bugs
• [drill] fixed punchcard value formatting
• [funnels] fixed delete multiple rows bug
• [funnels] fixed dragging steps only by drag handler
• [restrict] css fix for hiding menus
• [users] also validate funnel step segmentation
• [users] fix custom column selection bugs

Enterprise Improvements

• [cohorts] added configuration to control minimal cohort regeneration time
• [concurrent_users] added legacy live plugin endpoint support
• [drill] return undefined values too in BY queries
• [users] added cursor pointer on view message button
• [users] updated to use long name and value transformations for custom selected fields

v19.08

Countly 19.08 includes 140+ improvements including new features such A/B testing for remote configuration, Formulas plugin to create custom metrics from your existing data, a more detailed online users reporting with alerts, JIRA integration for crash analytics, two factor authentication support for dashboard logins and custom event triggered push notifications.

You can read more about 19.08 release in our blog post. If you'd like to view a detailed list of all changes please see here.

For Countly Server upgrade instructions, please see here.

Highlights for Enterprise Edition

• A/B Testing - Create experiments to test different variants of your remote config variables. Define goals based on cohort-like powerful custom user property and behaviour combinations and roll out the winning variant that had the most impact on your goal cohorts.

• Formulas - Construct complex formulas using the data you already track. Such as the sum of a custom event segment value divided by number of times that particular event occurred. You can visualise your formulas in their dedicated UI or in your dashboards.

• Online Users - A dedicated view that displays online users for the last 24-hours. Top metrics from your currently online users such as countries and devices, 30-day highs and lows, comparison of online users across apps and threshold based alerts.

• JIRA for Crashes - Use the brand new JIRA for Crashes plugin to open up JIRA issues directly from the crash & error details view. Configure a different JIRA project for each of your applications together with issue types and status names. Status transitions will always be synced to/from JIRA.

• User Profiles - Select the default or custom user properties that are the most important for you and customize how you view your user profiles list.

Highlights for Community and Enterprise Editions

• Two Factor Authentication - Add an extra layer of protection to your dashboard login by enabling the 2FA plugin. You can enforce two factor authentication to all users or you can leave it to your users to configure two factor authentication on demand.

• Navigation - Your new sidebar has feature grouping in order to make it easier to find what you are looking for. General management related menu items such as application, user and plugin management have a new home at the top bar.

• Graph notes 2.0 - Add private, shared or public notes to your time series graphs. Multiple notes on the same date are stacked for you to easily view each one. Dashboard widgets show notes from all apps so that you'll never miss an important remark from your team.

• Top events in events overview - Visualise your 24-hour and 30-day top events in events overview section. Top five events by their occurrence counts will give you a quick overview of which actions your customers are performing the most.

SDK updates

For all Countly SDKs please see here.