Stroomworks blog https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/ New Stroom features, notable fixes, and what is coming next. en-gb How we built the security dashboard on this website https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/building-the-security-demo/ https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/building-the-security-demo/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT How I use Stroom The Security Operations dashboard in our screenshots is a real Stroom instance fed synthetic events. Here is how it is put together, and the four things that caught us out. What is coming in Stroom 7.14 https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/whats-coming-in-7-14/ https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/whats-coming-in-7-14/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Upcoming S3 storage, a rebuilt processor task system, traces as documents and JSON logging are all landing in the 7.14 betas. Here is what is ready, and what is still experimental. Ask Stroom AI: from a chat panel to a function you can call https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/ask-ai-functions/ https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/ask-ai-functions/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT AI Ask Stroom AI started as a table-summary preview in 7.11. In 7.14-beta.1 you can call a model from XSLT and StroomQL, and add AI summaries to reports. Two fixes in 7.14-beta.1 worth knowing about https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/processor-filter-skipped-streams/ https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/processor-filter-skipped-streams/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Bug fix Processor filters could leave a stream permanently unprocessed, and bitmap-lookup ran its values together. Both are fixed in 7.14-beta.1. Plan B fixes in the 7.13 betas https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/plan-b-reliability-fixes/ https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/plan-b-reliability-fixes/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Bug fix Histograms and metrics no longer double count after an interrupted merge, queued data survives a restart, and sends retry through a network blip. Signing in through an authenticating edge proxy https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/edge-authentication/ https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/edge-authentication/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Feature From 7.13-beta.10, Stroom can sit behind an AWS ALB with Cognito or NGINX with oauth2-proxy, and let the proxy handle sign-in. Content that lives in Git https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/git-backed-content/ https://www.stroomworks.com/blog/git-backed-content/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Feature Stroom 7.11 adds Git-controlled folders, a Content Store for standard packs, and a Credentials feature to hold the secrets both of them need.