Today, we are thrilled to introduce Propellers, an easy way for product development teams to select the optimal cost and query speed for their customer-facing analytics use cases.
Propellers are the unit of compute in Propel. The larger the Propeller, the faster the queries and the higher the cost. Every Propel Application (and therefore every set of API credentials) has a Propeller that determines the speed and cost of queries.
Application scopes allow your client- or server-side app to access Propel resources. We’re now offering you greater control in restricting what an Application can or cannot do on your app’s behalf with OAuth 2.0 scopes.
Your app can request the following scopes:
When generating an access token for your app, you can choose which of these scopes to include. The example below uses curl to generate an access token with only the “metric:query” and “metric:stats” scopes. This ensures the generated access token can only query Metrics and Dimension Statistics, perfect for securing customer-facing apps.
curl https://auth.us-east-2.propeldata.com/oauth2/token \
-d grant_type=client_credentials \
-d client_id=$APPLICATION_ID \
-d client_secret=$APPLICATION_SECRET \
-d 'scope=metric:query metric:stats'
Applications can use any of the available scopes.