Selector Release Notes p3379 May 5 to July 14 2025

Selector Release Notes for p3379

New Features and Enhancements

Selector support with MCP

Selector supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) which provides a standard way for AI models/LLMs to communicate with a variety of data sources and tools (similar to plugging in a standard USB device), providing an enhanced querying experience to customers,

Selector’s MCP Server enables Claude Desktop to securely interact with Selector’s APIs, run queries, and access AI-powered tools-all via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

The following tools are integrated with MCP server:

• ask_selector: Allows users to send a chat-style question or content to the Selector AI and receive a conversational response. Input is validated using Pydantic and sent to the /api/collab2-slack/copilot/v1/chat endpoint.

• query_selector: Enables execution of S2QL queries (structured queries for logs, events, or metadata) via the Selector backend. Only commands starting with #select are accepted, and results are fetched from /api/collab2-slack/command.

• get_selector_phrases: Fetches predefined phrases or aliases from Selector, optionally filtered by a specified source (e.g., “user”, “s2ml”, or “widget”), using the /api/nlt2/alias endpoint.

Support Dashboard Variables in Natural Language (NL) Queries

The S2AP platform supports dashboard variables allowing the ability to filter on metastore entity properties such as site, model, vendor and devices for dashboard display. This feature extends Dashboard variable support to Natural Language queries while interacting with ChatOps interfaces in S2AP UI, or Collaboration tools like Slack or Microsoft teams, providing consistent and enhanced user experience with queries.

Netbox Enhancements

Netbox widgets are included into the Netbox folder, added to dashboards directory and it can support up to 20K entries.

RBAC Enhancements

Selector supports secure and least privilege access principles by ensuring that only admin users have access to integrations, and S2AP internal systems like Mongo DB and Kafka. Non-admin users will not have access to these. If any data is accessed from Mongo DB or Kafka, access log is included for auditing purposes.

User have the ability to create and view aggregate routes:

• Authorized users can now create and view an aggregate collection for internet routes.
• Like the aggregate views provided for L3VPN routes, authorized users can now query the aggregate views for internet routes as well.

Admin Experience Enhancements

Maintenance window scope names are case insensitive

Optional Dotted Median Lines in a Line Plot

For better readability, dotted median lines in a Line Plot are optional.

For mongodb, an IP address prefix, both the low and high value of the prefix range, is converted into a big integer (bigint) format. For example, the prefix 10.0.0.0/8 is converted into low bigint 167772160 and high bigint 184549375 for mongo aggregation pipelines.

IP to Prefix >>

Maintenence Window Creator

When duplicating the maintenance window, will now show ‘created by’ as ‘current logged in user’ instead of the originator.

Topology View Lock Settings

You can lock the topology view settings (layout) so that it stays that way even with dashboard variables.

Alert/Notification Enhancements

Resolved alerts from Selector will be excluded from rate limiting features. This will allow ITSM(BigPanda) to get notified of resolved alerts resulting in improved alert management for customers.

In addition to the previously supported Sendgrid based notifications, Selector now allows customers to configure their SMTP server for email notifications and alerting, providing improved security and email management control for customers.