November 15, 2023

Release date: November 15, 2023

Overview

In Releases 47–48, we've introduced a number of new features and improvements to the existing ones:

• Custom environment templates

• Resource usage dashboard

• Displaying a sample when creating charts

• UI improvements

What's new

Custom environment templates

Users who own the current work desk can now create a snapshot of the environment state and save it as a Custom Environment Template each time they update their environment. An update can involve adding additional libraries and packages to resolve dependencies through the terminal, code execution, or any package manager (for example, pip).

After a template is created, it becomes available to all project members. They can use it to create and start their own environments with the stored configuration.

This update simplifies environment management, enhances collaboration, and promotes project reproducibility.

Resource usage dashboard

In this update, we introduce an efficient resource monitoring solution: the resource usage dashboard. It allows project owners to have a better control over project resource consumption and associated cost. The key dashboard functionalities are:

• Monthly Overview: Project owners can track monthly resource consumption, spanning from the first day of the month to the current day. The tracking includes the following:
  • CPU (units per hour)
  • RAM (GB per hour)
  • Storage (GB per hour)
  • GPU (units per hour)
• Daily Breakdown: Project owners can analyze daily resource usage.
• Interactive Charts: Interactive graphs enable easy visualization and comparison of daily resource consumption. Hovering over data points in the graph instantly displays resource figures.
• Sorting Options: Monthly resource tables can be sorted by Project name (default), CPU, RAM, storage, or GPU usage.

Displaying a sample when creating charts

When a user initiate creating a new chart, the editor shows a sample chart built on the data from the dataframe. This allows the user to start building their chart from the predefined sample, speeding up the chart creation.

UI improvements

• Users can now switch between the file manager and VS Code IDE from the header for easier navigation.
• While working in VS Code, users can view all the environment settings in the status bar at the bottom.
• Users can see an indicator for the environment status (idle or running) on any page of their desk (file manager, IDE).
• User can easily switch between different desks or to the Data Catalog using the drop-down menu in the header.