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Cognite documentation powers human and agent workflows with new AI functionalityCognite now offers several ways to bring our official CDF product documentation into your AI-powered workflows.A docs MCP server for live documentation access in your IDE.  SKILL.md capability files so AI assistants understand what Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) can do. An integrated experience on docs.cognite.com that includes an AI assistant that answers questions and cites sources, plus one-click options to send any page to Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT, or Claude.To use the MCP server and the SKILL.md file, you'll need a compatible AI-powered IDE or assistant (for example, Cursor, Claude, Windsurf, or VS Code with Copilot). To install the SKILL.md file with the skills CLI, you also need Node.js. Docs MCP server: live documentation in your IDEThe Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI assistants securely access external data and tools. Cognite's docs MCP server gives your IDE live access to

 Dears,Would you please advise how can we hide specific layers (for ex. the crane) in the 3D model and then to save the updated or customised revision?is the revision editing for 3D models doable inside CDF itself or there is a specific workflow needed for it, as you can see it the snapshot below: Thank you! Fatima 

Hi everyone!We know that for an end-user, finding data shouldn't feel like a "needle in a haystack" mission. Last summer, we launched Per-Project Search Configuration, and if you haven't set it up yet, your team might be missing out on a much cleaner experience.As a Project Admin, you can curate what your users see when they sign in to Search. Instead of a generic view of data that maps 1:1 to your detailed data model definition, you can hand-deliver the most relevant data. Why configure your categories? Instant clarity: Define exactly which columns appear first. No more side-scrolling to find the "Status" or "ID." Relevant filtering: Hide the noise. Display only the filters that actually matter for that specific category. Context at a glance: Tailor the "Properties" card so the most crucial metadata is front and center. Quick guide: Check access: Ensure you have appconfig:read/write and app-scope = Search. Your users also need appconfig:read to make the config take effect for them

On the platform, when we have more than one annotation on a file, if they are very close to each other (overlapping by a pixel or two), the platform shows the overlapping box so we can select the correct annotation.I understand this as a bug.See the images below:The tags PB2885C and XA2885C are very close to each other. The overlap between them is barely noticeable.However, when you click on either one, both tags appear in the overlapping box:I’ve seen this happen every time we have annotations that are very close to each other.For a better user experience, it would be ideal if, at the moment of the click, the platform could understand that only one annotation is actually inside the click area.This would prevent the overlapping box from appearing and would solve the issue.Is this something we can have fixed?

Hi everyone,I’d like to share industrial-model — a Python ORM built on top of the Cognite Data Modeling Service API.It lets you define DMS views using Pydantic models, query them with a fluent, expressive API (filter, search, aggregate), and get fully typed results with IDE autocomplete out of the box.The SDK also supports upserts, deletes, and async workflows, making it a natural fit for modern Python stacks. In addition, it includes configuration for injecting instance spaces directly into queries, which can significantly improve query performance when working with large or complex data models.We’ve been using industrial-model for the past couple of months, and it has significantly reduced boilerplate when querying complex graphs, while also speeding up onboarding for new developers.Documentation:https://github.com/lucasrosaalves/industrial-model Feedback and feature requests are very welcome!Sample code:from pathlib import Pathfrom industrial_model import ( Engine, ViewInstanc

The documentation on this page should be updated to reflect the product behavior.https://api-docs.cognite.com/20230101/tag/Spaces/operation/deleteSpacesV3> If an existing data model references a space, you cannot delete that space. Nodes, edges and other data types that are part of a space will no longer be available. I tried deleting a space with a single node and I get this error:cognite.client.exceptions.CogniteAPIError: Unable to delete spaces because they contain nodes or edges: [some-test-space] | code: 400 This does not exactly contradict the documentation, but it means that the documentation is misleading. As it is written, it suggests a space can be used to manage lifecycle of ephemeral test data.

Description / Problem StatementWe are using the Cognite 3D File Extractor to migrate 3D model files from an on-premises Windows VM to Cognite Data Fusion (CDF).The majority of 3D files are ingested successfully with multiple sizes mostly > 10 GB. However, four specific files consistently fail ingestion, even after multiple retries.Key observations:All failing files are close to 5 GB in size Example sizes (as shown in Windows Explorer): 4.99 GB 4.94 GB 4.91 GB When checked via terminal/command line, these same files report a larger actual size (~5.3 GB) It appears that based on the Windows VM file size, the 3D extractor determines it should use a single-part upload. However, when it attempts to upload the actual file, the process fails because the size exceeds 5 GB      

Understanding the inner workings of your data pipelines is key to taking action to improve performance and debug issues. To give you better visibility, we’ve unlocked the full library of transformation metrics directly in the Transformations Run History UI.Previously, the UI only showed a few key metrics. Now, you can access everything the API tracks-from specific rate limits to granular resource updates-right from the graph.Navigate to the Run history tab in the Transformations UI, and select more metrics as shown in the images below.  What’s New?Searchable Metric Selector: Use the new dropdown to find exactly what you need. With the new search bar, you can quickly filter through long lists of metrics if you're working with multiple tables or data models. Smart Defaults: To keep things clean, your most important metrics (like reads, updates, and total requests) are still shown by default. Everything else is just a click away.Identifying Efficiency GainsThis update makes it easier to t

Dears, How can we have the 3D Model pushed into a power BI dashboard with the annotation as well, since the one we had is like a static 3D and it says that the annotation cannot be extracted along with it.is there a way to have it annotated in a dashboard? Thank you?Fatima 

Dears, How can we get the filled checklist in Infield exported for example in excel format for reporting purposes or archiving, InField's filled Checklist reports (including messages, Notes, and checkboxes) as excels is there a way to have it though an API, or is this feature coming soon? Appreciate you help in this since it’s urgent need.  Thanks!Fatima  

Hi , I have the CogniteActivity in the CDM/EDM data model which the assets is part of the model: Below is the sample data of CogniteActivity:This is the data model for Event in PDM:I tried to transform from CDM/EDM to PDM using below transformation, but i am not sure what is the script to transform CogniteActivity to PDM Event:And i got below error: Anyone know how can I transform CDM/EDM asset node reference to Event entities attribute? Thank you.

Hi Guys,I tried to use a transformation from the SDK but i keep getting error on Transformation credentials. Do you guys know what I need to do to solve this credentials issue. I have check the current credential for the Service Account that I use and the access for tranformation has been granted. def fetch_raw_table_via_transformation(    client: CogniteClient,    db_name: str,    table_name: str,    calculation_date: Optional[str] = None,    columns: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> pd.DataFrame:    """    Fetch data by running a temporary CDF Transformation (uses Spark SQL engine).        This is the RECOMMENDED approach for production workloads:    - Runs on CDF's managed Spark infrastructure    - Handles billions of rows efficiently    - Server-side filtering and aggregation    - Can write results to temp Raw table or return directly        Note: Requires transformation permissions in CDF        Args:        client: CogniteClient instance        db_name: Name of the RAW database 

Hello,  Some capabilities, such as dataModelInstancesAcl or dataModelsAcl, support the spaceIdScope scope. Currently, we can only specify the spaces to which we want to grant access.To better support certain use cases, would it be possible to introduce support for exclusion rules or regex-based expressions within this scope? Thanks 

I have a bit of a conundrum here. I am trying to visualize the daily and weekly averages of a time series in Azure Managed Grafana v11.6.3 using the CDF datasource. Raw data is strictly on hourly resolution, and provided in CET/CEST. Grafana is set to browser tz (i.e. CET/CEST). I need the daily average to align with CET midnight (=23:00 UTC). I use these synthetic series parameters: aggregate='average', granularity='24h', alignment=82800000 (82800000 aligns the datapoints to the correct hour if I do aggregate='step_interpolation', granularity='1h'). The returned value is neither the UTC day average or the CET day average. It is exactly the average of the two. So from what I see it seems to be a 30-minute shift/interpolation in the backend. Case in point: CET day average for a specific day is 158,67, while its UTC equivalent is 159,83 (see screenshot). Neither value is found in Grafana for that day at 00:00 - here I see 159,25. Which coincidentally is equal to (158,67+159,83)/2. The ti

As part of the hands on part of the CDF Fundamentals course, I have parsed the pdf but cannot preview it or see its contents when adding it to canvas. After parsing I could also not see the Mapping tab and hence also not “verify” the matches in the diagram. Can anyone assist?

My site has pumps that have two vibration sensors mounted on each pump. Due to harsh cryogenic environment, these sensors often throw off spurious readings.I wrote a fx calculation to develop a 2oo2 voting logic system for vibration alerts on a pump. The code includes logic to weed out the initial high vibration recorded during startup. I saved and scheduled the calculation and chose it to run once every minute (vibration sensor scan rate is 1 second on the chart).The problem is that although the calculation works correctly on the chart display and my calculation ‘flag’ goes to 1 when both sensors exceed my defined threshold value, MONITORING ALERTS configured on the scheduled calculation NEVER GET TRIGGERED and no email alert notifications are received. I need to know what I am doing wrong and how to fix it. 

Hello! I have got a new phone and am not able to restore microsoft authenticator from its backup.Could someboday please reset the MFA Access so that I can set up the authenticator again?

We have multiple Asset Centric Location Filters created which are used in Industrial Tools search to filter site specific assets.When using multiple filters, we observed that the Search returns 0 assets.We inspected the Network requests and observed the Cognite API call to assets/list fails with below error:```{  "error": {    "code": 400,    "message": "Asset subtrees exceed the limit of 100000 assets."  }}```There are similar cases where a location filter is setup with asset subtree and the subtree has more than 100K assets. Is there a way we can configure Location Filters to bypass the limit of 100k assets.

We have configured Asset Centric Location Filter based on the required Dataset Ids. No Asset Subtrees or External Id Prefix are used for the Filter. On the applying the Location Filter on Industrial Tool search, the UI list all the required assets. However, when we try to switch from LIST to HIERARCHY view the UI is unable to render the hierarchy view correctly.The error message in network logs states - <Request had 1 constraint violations. Please fix the request and try again. [<list element> must not be null]>In the request payload could see the parentIds are set to null which could be causing this error.NOTE: If I manually select all the hierarchy levels using the filters option - the hierarchy view works.

Wow—was I in for a challenge!I just received my first proper assignment after joining Cognite: building a custom extractor to move documents and their metadata from a Document Management System (DMS) into Cognite Data Fusion (CDF).Diving headfirst into this, I found myself at the intersection of a steep learning curve, the high-stakes data needs of our industrial customers, and my own belief in Agile engineering practices. Coming from a background where Test-Driven Development (TDD) is the heartbeat of quality, I realized I didn't just want to build a script; I wanted to build a process I could trust.In this series, I want to share a practice that served me well while learning the ropes: The "Twin Auditor" Pattern.The Challenge: Beyond Logic, It’s IntegrationWhen you build an extractor, you aren't just writing code in a vacuum. You are building a bridge between two distinct worlds: your source system (the DMS) and your data platform (CDF).Extraction is inherently an integration challen