ThoughtSpot Cloud Documentation

ThoughtSpot Cloud™ is our hosted and managed service offering. ThoughtSpot Cloud offers multiple advantages over deployment form factors that you have to manage and maintain within your own organization.

ThoughtSpot Cloud is now available in US East and West, Sydney, Ireland, Frankfurt, and Singapore. For information on supported features, and how to sign up, see Getting Started.

Business User

Onboard
Home page Update
Pinboards and Answers
ThoughtSpot Search
Search Answers Update
Search Data

Analyst

ThoughtSpot Search Assist
Onboard as Analyst
Object Migration Update
SpotApp Templates
TS Modeling Language Update
Linked Pinboard Filters
Selective Pinboard Filters
Search on Answers Pinboard
Custom SpotIQ analysis
Pinboard Download API

Data Engineer

About Embrace
Snowflake
Security passthrough for Snowflake and Google BigQuery
Passthrough functions for Snowflake
Amazon Redshift
Google BigQuery
Azure Synapse
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Beta

IT and Operations

Users
Groups
Local Authentication
Authentication with SAML Scheduled Maintenance
Style Customization
Help Customization
Use Agreement
Performance Tracking Update
User Adoption Pinboard Consumption-based Pricing

New features and functionality

The latest release of ThoughtSpot Cloud contains several new and enhanced features.

For the Analyst
For the Business User
For the IT Ops Engineer
For the Developer

For the Analyst

Scriptability: Add tables and columns to an Embrace connection: ThoughtSpot now allows you to use TML to edit tables created through Embrace, and add columns and tables that already exist in the external database to the connection. Refer to ThoughtSpot Modeling Language and specify the connection information when adding tables or table columns to an Embrace connection.

This feature is in Beta and off by default; to add columns and tables to an Embrace connection through Scriptability, contact ThoughtSpot Support.

Improvements to generic join functionality: The expanded functionality for generic joins in TML files allows the following elements:
Constants: int, double, bool, date, and string

Comparison operators: =, !=, <, >, <=, and >=

Columns

Boolean operators: AND, OR, and NOT
This feature is in Beta and on by default.

For the Business User

ThoughtSpot One GA: ThoughtSpot One is now available for all customers. It is on by default. See Search Answers and ThoughtSpot One home page for more information.
Bulk share objects from the ThoughtSpot One home page: You can now share multiple objects at a time from the ThoughtSpot One home page. Refer to ThoughtSpot One home page.
Frequent metrics and attributes in the Details panel: The Details panel that appears when you click on a Pinboard visualization while searching across your existing Answers and Pinboards now lists frequent metrics and attributes for that Pinboard. You can determine if a Pinboard search result is useful for you based on the metrics and attributes used most often in that Pinboard.

For the IT Ops Engineer

Manage advanced search and SpotIQ settings: You can now manage advanced search and SpotIQ settings from the Admin Console. You can configure column indexing and enable or disable SpotIQ Analyze and column summaries. Refer to Manage search and SpotIQ settings.
Manage email and onboarding settings: You can manage certain advanced settings for your organization from the Admin Console. You can customize welcome emails, scheduled emails, and the workflow that allows users to sign up for ThoughtSpot from the login page. Refer to Manage email and onboarding settings.
Performance Tracking Pinboard: The Performance Tracking Pinboard is now accessible from the Admin Console. To view this Pinboard, navigate to the Admin Console by selecting Admin from the top navigation bar. Select App performance from the side navigation bar in the Admin Console.

For the Developer

ThoughtSpot Embed: ThoughtSpot cloud now supports embedding ThoughtSpot content in third-party applications. In this release, ThoughtSpot introduces the Visual Embed SDK package Beta to help developers embed the ThoughtSpot search functionality, pinboards, visualizations, or the full application in their web page, portal, or business solution.; For more information on embedding ThoughtSpot, see ThoughtSpot embedding solution.
SpotDev portal: ThoughtSpot cloud now includes the SpotDev portal Beta to allow developer users to explore the ThoughtSpot SDK APIs and build sample applications. The SpotDev tab in the ThoughtSpot application is available for the users with administrator and developer privileges.; The SpotDev portal provides a playground for developers and product owners to evaluate the Visual Embed APIs and preview the results. The portal also allows authorized users to rebrand the embedded content, customize styles, and add custom menu actions to the embedded instance.; For more information, see SpotDev Portal.

Earlier releases

See Release notes.