Announcing the General Availability of Activator
We are excited to announce that Real-Time Intelligence Activator is now generally available! We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude for your invaluable partnership and feedback throughout Activator’s development as we help your organizations go from insights to action.
With GA, you’ll be able to:
- Stay on top of your critical metrics by monitoring your business objects. You can track and analyze key business objects such as individual packages, households, refrigerators, and more in real-time, ensuring you have the insight needed to make informed decisions. Whether it’s understanding how individual instances of your business objects impact sales figures, inventory levels, or customer interactions, our monitoring system provides detailed insights, helping you stay proactive and responsive to changes in your business environment at a fine-tuned level of granularity.
- Unlock the full potential of creating business rules on your data with advanced data filtering and monitoring capabilities. This update offers a wide array of options for filtering, summarizing, and scoping your data, allowing you to tailor your analysis to your specific needs. You can set up complex conditions to track when data values change, exceed certain thresholds, or when no new data has arrived within a specified timeframe.
- Ensure your communications are perfect before hitting send by seeing a preview of your Email and Teams messages. This will allow you to see a preview of your message exactly as it will appear to the recipient. Review your content, check formatting, and make any necessary adjustments to ensure clarity. With this feature, you can confidently have Data Activator send messages on your behalf knowing they look just the way you intended.
- Set up rules that trigger automatically with every new event that comes in on your stream of data. Whether you need to send notifications or initiate workflows, this feature ensures that your processes are always up-to-date and responsive.
We renamed our feature to help create clarity about what it is and what it does and simplify the way you discover Data Activator and create actionable rules. If you are used to seeing Reflex, please note that it is now called Activator. The items you create to set up rules and actions are, therefore, activators. You can find Activator tile in Fabric Real-Time Intelligence section. We hope that, however small, these changes simplify the process of getting started with Data Activator.
Activator billing is now enabled, and it is based on the following meters:
Compute resources:
- The number of rules running, and the duration of time these rules have been up. Each active rule comes with a uniform ‘uptime’ cost.
- The number of events per second ingested.
- Evaluating the rules and, when the conditions are met, triggering the defined action.
Storage:
- The Fabric storage charges are based on the storage consumed for events and activation retention. The retention policy by default is set to 30 days.
Should your account run out of capacity, we will show you an in-product banner and send email notification. You can always track and review your Activator capacity usage and, if needed, update it to fit your business needs. The formal billing for Activator usage will begin with our GA announcement on Nov 18.
What’s next?
There will be many more exciting developments as we continue to innovate and expand the capabilities of Real-Time Intelligence. Learn more about all the features and follow a step-by-step tutorial. Join the conversation and vote for your favorite features.
Over the next month we’ll be releasing a series of blog posts that dive into all the capabilities further. Stay tuned for more!
