Insights FAQs

What is new in Insights 2.0, and how is it different from Insights 1.0?

Insights 2.0 is a highly improved version of Insights 1.0. Insights 2.0 supports:

• Data lake architecture which provides a highly scalable and performance oriented platform. Data from different data sources can be brought into the data lake layer, through various native and custom connectors. Project Administrators can use Project Control Center (PCC) to configure various data sources from which project related data is brought into the data lake layer.

• A new enhanced version of Insights UI (User Interface) that provides much better visualization reports to analyze the data.

• A brand new Community Management application that empowers Community Managers to better manage their project communities, for example adding and managing affiliations and identities of technical contributors within their communities.

Insights 1.0 uses Elastic Search as the data store and embedded Kibana dashboards as the visualization layer, there by restricting the scaling and configurability of data in certain areas. The new data lake architecture in Insights 2.0 solves this problem, and provide massive improvements to the scaling and performance of the tool.

Does Insights 2.0 have a new URL?

Yes. However, the primary URL will remain unchanged, and will automatically point to insights 2.0

Why the current release supports a limited number of connectors on PCC, compared to last release?

Our goal is to make Insights available for all the LF projects so that every Open Source Software (OSS) community gets the same experience and make full use of the features and analytics provided by Insights 2.0.

To scale the platform across hundreds of existing projects and growing, we had to completely re-architecture our connector ecosystem. Hence, from July 2022, LFX PCC will provide support for all the native connectors in batches, starting with Git, Github and Gerrit. In the upcoming releases, LFX will provide support for other native connectors, such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, Groupsio, Google Groups, Pipermail, Earned Media, Twitter, Docker Hub, and many more.

As a Community Administrator or a Project Manager, Do I need to move my projects from insights 1.0 to Insights 2.0?

No. LFX team will migrate the projects from Insights 1.0 to Insights 2.0, and you will be able to start using the new Insights 2.0 dashboards from day 1 of the product release.

Do I lose access to all the dashboards and data for connectors that are showing under Coming Soon on PCC?

Need to check with Sachin/Chaitan

No. Insights 1.0 (https://insights.lfx.dev) will still be up and running and also regularly sync data for the data sources (or connectors) that are for the time being unavailable for v2. You can continue to use the v1 platform while we transition your project data completely to the v2 platform. Once we have completely migrated all our projects and data sources to v2, we will decommission the v1 platform.

Will the URLs that I had book marked from the v1 platform redirect to and work with v2?

Need understanding on this?

Unfortunately not, since the two systems are massively different in terms of the APis and UI your existing URLs from v1 will not work right out of the box on the v2 platform. Please reach out to us via our community forum or support desk, if you need any assistance to get the data that you are looking for.