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Analyze Azure DevOps Data in Infragistics Reveal
Use the CData API Server to create an OData API on top of Azure DevOps data and visualize live Azure DevOps data in Ingragistics Reveal.
Reveal is a data visualization solution provided by Infragistics and can be paired with the CData API Server and Azure DevOps ADO.NET Provider to build dynamic dashboards from live Azure DevOps data. The CData API Server generates an OData API for Azure DevOps, which is natively consumable in Reveal. In this article, we walk through connecting to Azure DevOps in API Server and connecting to the API Server from Infragistics Reveal to create a simple dashboard.
Connect to Azure DevOps from API Server
CData API Server uses a straightforward, point-and-click interface to connect to data sources and generate APIs.
- Open API Server and click Settings -> Connection -> Add Connection
- Select "Azure DevOps"
- Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Azure DevOps.
You can connect to your Azure DevOps account by providing the Organization and PersonalAccessToken.
Obtaining a Personal Access Token
A PersonalAccessToken is necessary for account authentication.To generate one, log in to your Azure DevOps Organization account and navigate to Profile -> Personal Access Tokens -> New Token. The generated token will be displayed.
If you wish to authenticate to Azure DevOps using OAuth refer to the online Help documentation for an authentication guide.
Add Azure DevOps Resource Definitions in API Server
After connecting to Azure DevOps, create Resources, which represent API endpoints for Azure DevOps data.
- Click Settings -> Resources -> Add Resource
- Select the Azure DevOps connection
- Select the table you wish to retrieve and click Next
- (Optional) Edit the resource to select specific fields and more
- Save the settings
Add an API Server User
Create a User to connect to Azure DevOps from Reveal through API Server.
- Click Settings -> Users
- Click Add
- Configure a User with access to the Azure DevOps Connection and Resource(s)
(Optional) Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
When accessing and connecting to multiple different domains from an application such as Ajax, there is a possibility of violating the limitations of cross-site scripting. In that case, configure the CORS settings in Settings -> Server.
- Enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS): ON
- Allow all domains without '*': ON
- Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, PUT, POST, OPTIONS
- Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization
Save the changes to the settings.
Create a Dashboard in Reveal
With the API Server configured, we can visualize Azure DevOps data in Reveal.
- Log into Reveal and click Dashboards -> New
- Click Data Source -> OData Feed
- Specify the API Server API endpoint URL, for example: https://serverurl/api.rsc
- Select Generic Credentials and specify the API Server username and authentication token
- Select the entity you wish to visualize
- Select fields and choose a chart type
More Information & Free Trial
At this point, you have created a simple dashboard from live Azure DevOps data. For more information on creating OData feeds from Azure DevOps (and more than 150 other sources), visit the API Server page. Download a free, 30-day trial and start working live Azure DevOps data in tools that consume OData APIs.
