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Ops Manager
Hello all,
We are pleased to announce the release of Neo4j Ops Manager version 1.4!
This version is available to download for Enterprise Edition self-managed customers from the download page.
Overview
This release is a general maintenance release, with a number of bug fixes and smaller enhancements rather than any significant new feature.
NOTE: Due to some data migration of the persistence data, the first server start may take a number of minutes to complete (depending on size of persistence). This is normal - please wait for it to complete.
Architecture
- Support for managed instances with authentication disabled
- Agent - stop connection attempts after x authentication failures
- Security - implement recommendations from penetration testing
- Agent Advisor (see below)
- Optimisation of agent queries and agent resilience
- Additional options in agent for errored query logs
Settings
- Ability to view remote agent configuration from within NOM UI
Home
- Page refresh no longer resets zoom or manual layout changes [fix]
- Inconsistent topology when upgrading or reusing agent [fix]
- DBMS Selector at top of page replaced by double-click on topology
- Rename DBMS from within home page
Metrics
- DB: Database reset on refresh [fix]
- All: Member enable/disable resets zoom [fix]
- Refactored metric data fetch to run significantly faster ← any stats here
- Metrics collected at the same time on all instance of a cluster for better alignment
- Host metrics changes and optimisations
- Instance metrics changes and optimisations
- Database metrics changes and optimisations
Status Panel
- Display disk space usage on instance and database (topology)
- Summary and detailed view of disk space usage by directory (topology)
- Actuals and percentage of available in directory (topology)
- Disk space usage columns (total, Data, Transaction Logs) for databases (tabular)
Logs (query logs)
- Ability to filter by application and type as set by applications
Alerts
- Include alerts from Agent Advisor
- Specific error message in case one of the metrics collector is unsuccessful (disk/cpu/prometheus)
- Connectivity errors with the monitored instance
- Authentication error to the monitored instance
- Query log ingestion connectivity errors (to log4j)
- Query log buffer overflow
Upgrade Manager
- Privileges when migrating from 4.4 to 5.x
- Better support for offline instances in cluster upgrade [fix]
...and More! Updated driver and software versions, many other minor fixes, enhancements and user experience improvements.
We hope you enjoy our latest release, and look forward to hearing your feedback.
Team Ops-Manager.
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AuraDB Professional
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Data Importer
Import
This release of Data Importer introduces a new way to load more data sources without the need for pre-processing. By allowing you to apply simple filters to files we're enabling loads in more scenarios, including:
- Generally keeping data relevant from only certain rows in a file while skipping the others
- Loading data from aggregate node listsandrelationship listswhere information on all nodes and all relationships is encapsulated in just two files.
We're going to take a quick look at how file filtering can help you with the latter example.
Consider the following subset of the Northwind data model showing Orders, the Products they contain and the Shippers they are shipped by.
In the classic Northwind dataset, these are represented by different tables like
Shippers.csv
, Orders.csv
, Products.csv
and Order-Details.csv
. When extracting data from more graph-like sources however, it is not uncommon to be provided with wide node lists and relationships lists that contain all the nodes and all the relationships in just two files.Here's what an example exported from our very own Neo4j Bloom looks like (but could equally apply to any other graph-like export):
bloom-nodes-export.csv
bloom-relationships-export.csv
In the nodes file you'll notice the node types are identified by the
~labels
column and relationship types in the relationships file by the ~relationship_type
column.Prior to the file filtering feature, you needed to separate the nodes files into three files representing the three node types and the relationships file into two files representing the two relationship types.
With file filtering, now optionally available under the File dropdown in the Mapping Panel, you can apply include filters to keep rows only relevant to the Nodes or Relationships in your model. Here's an example of applying the file filter to the
bloom-relationships-export.csv
file to ensure it only keeps the rows where the ~relationship_type
column has ORDERS
values.
You'll notice the filter when applied, gives you feedback as you type on how many matches were found. For performance reasons only the first 10,000 rows of any file are scanned, so even if you don't see matched in this feedback, there may still be matches further down your file.
The same filtering principle applies for the nodes file, in this example mapping to the Product node and only keeping the rows in the
bloom-nodes-export.csv
file where values in the column ~labels
equal Product
.
For now file filtering supports exact string matches, but we'd love to hear your feedback on the utility of the filtering functionality and other things you'd like to see. As always, please head over to https://feedback.neo4j.com/data-importer to leave us your feedback.
That's all for now, thank you for reading!
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AuraDB Enterprise
AuraDB Professional
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AuraDS Self-Start
AuraDS Enterprise
We have made some changes to the Aura Admin console UI today which include:
- Header options consolidated under help section
- Multi-Product selection for DB/DS moved to left hand navigation bar
- Improved layout of multiple database tiles
Please jump in and take a look, we hope you enjoy the new experience and look forward to your feedback!
Thanks
The Aura Product Team
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AuraDB Professional
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AuraDS Self-Start
AuraDS Enterprise
Development testing
Please note there are new official drivers for Java, Python, Go, .Net and JavaScript, all available in the Neo4j Download Center.
Drivers are now released on a monthly schedule.
Important Note
Due to our backward compatibility policy for drivers, the latest drivers are compatible with
all Neo4j versions available in Aura.
We advise always using the latest driver versions in order to benefit from the greatest number of enhancements and fixes.
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Data Importer
Import
This release of Data Importer brings a couple of small UI updates to make common tasks easier and clearer.
Collapsible files panel
The files panel is now collapsible, giving you more space to work on the graph model when needed.
Reworked Relationship From/To Mapping details
We've observed that it isn't always clear to new users what the different parts of the From/To relationship mapping UI represent, so we've reworked it to hopefully make it a little clearer.
We now explicitly call out which nodes and ID properties are at the
From
and To
ends of a relationship, and which file columns we are expecting you to match them up with to create valid relationships.We continue to automatically populate these for you when your relationships use the same file for nodes at each end (and you've already selected their IDs). The main time you need to populate these fields manually is when you're using a separate file to define relationships between nodes.
As always, keep your feedback coming on https://feedback.neo4j.com/data-importer.
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AuraDB Enterprise
AuraDS Enterprise
As the festive season is fast approaching we would like to remind you that you can designate your mission critical database instances in Aura Enterprise.
The benefits are:
- Additional monitoring care for your mission critical production database instance from our team of SRE experts
- Frictionless engagement with Customer Support in case of issues during weekend, bank holidays and more general 'out of hours' periods
- Updates are rolled out last to these database instances, so that any impact from updates can be observed first across the less critical databases within your estate
If you'd like to proceed you can raise a support ticket (https://aura.support.neo4j.com/hc/en-us) today letting us know which Database Instances you'd like to designate as mission critical, and we will flag accordingly. Or, for more information please contact your Customer Success Manager!
Thanks
The Aura Product Team
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Hello all,
We are pleased to announce the release of Neo4j Ops Manager version 1.3!
This version is available to download for Enterprise Edition self-managed customers from the download page.
New and improved in this release are:-
Query Log analyzer
- Show query log details for the previous 24 hours
- Show hourly aggregated query log data for the previous 7 days
- Show daily aggregated query log data for the previous 30 days
- Filtering and sort capabilities
- Ability to customise which columns are shown and order of columns
Metrics optimisation
- Reduced the amount of storage required in Neo4j Ops Manager persistence database for the storage of metrics measurements by up to 50%
Topology maintenance
Provided capability within the UI to
- Edit agents
- Remove agents that either never connected or connected more than ‘safe period’ ago
- Remove instances that have been offline for more than ‘safe period’
- Remove DBMSs that have no instances that have been online within ‘safe period’
- Remove Database Instances that were dropped more than ‘safe period’ ago
- Rename DBMS from within the topology diagram
5.x to 5.y guided upgrade
- Added ability to create plans to upgrade from an earlier version of Neo4j 5 to a later version of Neo4j 5
Helm chart
Containing resource definitions for deployment of a Neo4j Ops Manager server on Kubernetes with a Neo4j single instance for NOM persistence
We hope you enjoy our latest release, and look forward to hearing your feedback.
Team Ops-Manager.
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Bloom.neo4j.io
Browser.neo4j.io
Welcome to Bloom 2.5! In this release we've introduced some new features to help analysts explore the graph:
- Scene Actions can now be ordered so they appear in the context menu in the way that makes sense for your use case
- On a blank part of the canvas, the context menu now has an option to dismiss single nodes from the scene
- The context menu, when opened from a node, now allows you to 'Select related nodes' which will expand your selection to all nodes and relationships connected to the node you start with
As always, we'd love to hear your feedback on the latest changes.
Thanks
Aura Product Team
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AuraDB Enterprise
At
NODES 2022
we announced that our AuraDB Enterprise early access program is now available on Microsoft Azure! 
Available with
Azure Private Link
and Single-sign on with Azure Active Directory
from launch, AuraDB Enterprise can fully support your Azure cloud initiatives and underpin your multi-cloud strategy. If you (or anther department within your organisation) are interested in running a Proof of Concept on AuraDBE for any of your Azure cloud use cases, please get in touch with your Customer Success Manager today for more information. Alternatively you can contact our dedicated sales team directly: cloud-sales@neo4j.com.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks
The Aura Product Team
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GraphQL
Hi there! Cool new stuff we added here, right?
Going forward we will publish relevant information, such as changelogs or updates, here on this page. On this same web page, you can also provide us with feedback regarding the Neo4j GraphQL Toolbox.
See you here and stay tuned!
Your Team GraphQL
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