CatLight 3 preview 1 - New Action Center, multiple dashboards, and more

We're excited to announce CatLight v3 preview! It includes re-designed dashboards with action and watch lists, and support for multiple dashboards that you can share.

Download it from https://catlight.io/downloads 

New dashboard with action center

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The new dashboard is split into two groups - the action list and the watch list.

The action list shows alerts and action items that are sorted by priority, so you can handle them from top to bottom. It includes broken build and release pipelines, incoming pull requests, and work items. You can define your own priority rules in settings. The action list will not show any items that are in a good state and don't need your attention.

Use a watch list to keep track of things that you care about, but which are not actionable at the moment. By default, it includes builds that you recently started and pull requests that you have created. You can customize it to include things like tasks that you created for other people.

You can add multiple watch and action lists to the dashboard, to group things by project, team, or other criteria.

After configuring the dashboard, you can share it with your team. Any changes to shared dashboard settings will be propagated to other team members automatically.

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CatLight v3 can work with multiple dashboards. You can use them for additional grouping by teams, projects, roles, and activities. For example, you can create a dashboard for the on-call person, and a separate one for other engineers.

Upgrading from V2 and downgrading

CatLight will automatically convert V2 dashboards to V3, trying to preserve the layout. But, we suggest you create a new dashboard and share it with the team to take advantage of new action- and watch lists.

If you have trouble upgrading or downgrading the app, you can reset the settings and re-configure it from scratch.

Other changes from V2

Additional changes:

  • Improved initial app configuration wizard that will suggest users to join the team and use shared dashboards.
  • Redesigned monitoring settings UI. You can now add monitorable item from any server to any panel on the dashboard (previously, items were grouped by server connection).

Currently unavailable features that will be implemented later:

  • Team status

Removed features:

  • Global focus mode. It will be replaced by an ability to focus on specific action items.
  • Settings export and import. It is replaced by dashboard sharing.

Feedback

We are looking forward to your feedback! Let us know how the new version works for you, and how can it be improved. You can add bug reports/idea suggestion to our support portal , or just share thoughts with us!

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