Today’s platform update covers improvements released this week and others rolled out in mid-December. These new features come almost entirely from user requests.
Losant’s Events feature has evolved considerably over time based on user feedback, and December’s release was our biggest change to the feature since adding direct device association and event tags back in 2019.
Now, users can edit several additional fields after creating an event, such as its subject; level (e.g. “critical” vs. “warning”); and associated device.
Also, changes to these properties over time are tracked in the event’s updates along with the previously tracked state changes (“new” vs. “acknowledged” vs. “resolved”). And while event tags were always editable after event creation, changes to tags are now also tracked in the updates as well.
Finally, another user request we’ve fulfilled is the ability to create an event in an “acknowledged” or “resolved” state. This is helpful for tracking device anomalies that have already been accounted for but that you would like to record for posterity.
In Gateway Edge Agent version 2.1.0, we’ve rolled out a number of changes that allow for syncing files stored on an edge compute device to/from our various cloud storage integrations …
These features allow for exchanging large configuration files, container logs, and captured images between the edge and third-party services – transactions that would have been impossible to achieve through a workflow execution previously due to payload size limits.
As always, this release comes with other features and improvements, including:
With every new release, we listen to your feedback. By combining your suggestions with our roadmap, we can continue to improve the platform while maintaining its ease of use. Let us know what you think in the Losant Forums.