{"id":52387,"date":"2018-08-21T19:14:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T19:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=46385"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:22:38","slug":"analytics-private-preview-for-customers-on-tfs-2018-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/analytics-private-preview-for-customers-on-tfs-2018-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Analytics Private Preview for Customers on TFS 2018 Update 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>===<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Private Preview is referred to in this blog post is closed.<\/strong>\n  Analytics is now available with Azure DevOps Server 2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/vstsanalytics\">Analytics<\/a> is the new reporting platform for both <a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.com\/tfs\">Team Foundation Server (TFS)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.com\/team-services\">Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are starting a Limited Private Preview of Analytics for TFS 2018 Update 2 in preparation for a full release in TFS 2019.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Analytics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items?itemName=ms.vss-analytics\">Analytics Extension page<\/a> on our marketplace.<\/li>\n<li>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vsts\/report\/analytics\/index\">Analytics Overview documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/connect\/2017\/T251\">this Channel 9 Video on VSTS Analytics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>We are looking for TFS 2018.2 customers who would be willing to join the preview.<\/strong>\n  The Preview has** full support for TFS 2019 upgrades** and additional direct support for Analytics (including fixes for blocking issues) for those customers involved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We are specifically looking for customers who are willing to help us by running Analytics on their production TFS 2018 instances and providing us with key metrics on its performance.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider the following:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>\n    We would strongly prefer customers that are willing to deploy in a production environment which is being actively used for work item tracking.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    We will ask customers to periodically monitor SQL perf so we can better understand Analytics resource consumption\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    If a customer finds Analytics unacceptable for any reason, we will provide a path to turn Analytics off and remove any Analytics data.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    If a customer finds any blocking issues we will provide a bug fix directly.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    This private preview includes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fvsts%2Freport%2Fanalytics%2Fanalytics-widgets-vsts%3Fview%3Dvsts&#038;data=02%7C01%7Cgreggboe%40microsoft.com%7C313385544a6e49c7140508d5f142decb%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636680191910743396&#038;sdata=YjbGS%2BTgFIyF0s1ALYVvIgAOBZ7ql8qqtEkHsDJMa0I%3D&#038;reserved=0\">Analytics-based widgets<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fvsts%2Freport%2Fextend-analytics%2Findex%3Fview%3Dvsts&#038;data=02%7C01%7Cgreggboe%40microsoft.com%7C313385544a6e49c7140508d5f142decb%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636680191910753404&#038;sdata=DUQcnLK80IlaCTlJW3jzp3BmaP%2FJBV2lOPJHKFNlu94%3D&#038;reserved=0\">OData access<\/a>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    It does not include Power BI + Analytics Views integration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fvsts%2Freport%2Fpowerbi%2Fdata-connector-connect%3Fview%3Dvsts&#038;data=02%7C01%7Cgreggboe%40microsoft.com%7C313385544a6e49c7140508d5f142decb%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636680191910763417&#038;sdata=G2UfTz%2FywkvtIVVoslrvyJxIigp5fOTGRatoawEGz4U%3D&#038;reserved=0\">using our Power BI Data Connector<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Preview is limited****.<\/strong> We may not be able to accept everyone wanting to be a part of the preview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are interested please reach out to us at <a href=\"mailto:tfs2018axpreview@microsoft.com\">tfs2018axpreview@microsoft.com.<\/a> <del><span style=\"color: #800000;\">[22-Aug-2018]:<\/span><\/del><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><del> We are experiencing a temporary issue with the above email address. In the meantime, send emails to <a href=\"mailto:vstsrf@microsoft.com\">vstsrf@microsoft.com<\/a>.<\/del> <strong>[22-Aug-2018]<\/strong>: Issue resolved. The email address\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tfs2018axpreview@microsoft.com\"><b>tfs2018axpreview@microsoft.com<\/b><\/a> should work now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analytics is the new reporting platform for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). 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