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Version: 0.13.0

Tableau Ingestion Guide: Overview

What You Will Get Out of This Guide

This guide will help you set up the Tableau connector to begin ingesting metadata into DataHub.

Upon completing this guide, you will have a recurring ingestion pipeline that will extract metadata from Tableau and load it into DataHub. This will include to following Tableau asset types:

  • Dashboards
  • Sheets
  • Embedded DataSource
  • Published DataSource
  • Custom SQL Table
  • Embedded or External Tables
  • User
  • Workbook
  • Tag

The pipeline will also extract:

  • Usage statistics help you understand top viewed Dashboard/Chart
  • Table- and Column-level lineage automatically index relationships between datasets and columns

Next Steps

Continue to the setup guide, where we'll describe the prerequisites.

Advanced Guides and Reference

If you want to ingest metadata from Tableau using the DataHub CLI, check out the following resources:

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