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SAML Directory Sync, new LLM-as-a-judge models, and website refresh

Published January 16, 2025
SAML Directory Sync, new LLM-as-a-judge models, and website refresh

We’ve added lots of features and enhancements across our platform, focused on improving performance, expanding functionality, and streamlining workflows. To highlight a few:

🔐 Increased security with SAML SSO directory sync. You can now sync SAML SSO on Openlayer with existing security groups. Openlayer can now more seamlessly fit into your organization’s security policies.

🧑‍⚖️ New LLM-as-a-judge models. We’ve expanded the models available to act as judges for LLM-as-a-judge tests. You can now use models from Cohere and Vertex AI when running these tests.

🎨 Website refresh. We’ve given our website a brand refresh, including lots of fun animations showcasing the Openlayer product in action and case studies from some of our customers.

Features

  • SDKs. Faster batch uploads with pyarrow support
  • SDKs. Push commits to the platform via the Python SDK
  • UI/UX. Tabular view of test results in test modals
  • UI/UX. Add pie graph for test results in project home
  • Evals. Add Faithfulness and Answer Correctness metrics for RAG systems
  • Platform. Use Cohere, Vertex AI models as options for LLM-as-a-judge metrics
  • API. Add `expand` to inference pipeline GETs so projects and workspaces are included in the response body
  • Platform. New "Viewer" role in workspaces that doesn’t have write, update or delete permissions on resources
  • SDKs. Support for async data uploads, and faster upload speeds
  • Platform. Directory sync with SAML

Improvements

  • API. Lower latency for data stream endpoint
  • UI/UX. Update tooltips and rendering of statuses in test cards
  • UI/UX. Make sections in test modals collapsible
  • API. Add skipped and failing test counts in project version and inference pipeline objects
  • API. Better error messages for invalid data configs when streaming data
  • Platform. More intuitive status messages for skipped tests
  • Documentation. Add code samples in Java

Fixes

  • Platform. Generate outputs step was not failing gracefully
  • UI/UX. Surface user-facing error messages upon SSO login failures
  • UI/UX. Better failure message when password reset link has expired
  • Platform. Improved rate limiting
  • Integrations. Slack notifications for create pipeline now includes name
  • Platform. Answer Correctness metric was breaking when output was not a string

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