Tableau
TL;DR
Integrate, catalog, and govern Tableau assets in Atlan.
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Overview: Catalog dashboards, workbooks, and data sources in Atlan. Gain visibility into lineage, usage, and governance for your BI assets.
Get started
Two facts decide your whole setup: is it Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server, and can it be reached from the internet? Answer both in Choose how Atlan connects to Tableau before anything else. Atlan supports Tableau Cloud and Tableau Server 2022.x or later (REST API 3.14+).
Then follow these steps to connect and catalog Tableau assets in Atlan:
- Choose your connectivity method
- Set up the connector
- Connect Tableau Cloud or Connect Tableau Server
- Crawl Tableau assets
Guides
- Set up on-premises access: Configure Atlan to connect to Tableau environments that are isolated from the public internet.
- Crawl on-premises Tableau: Extract metadata from on-premises Tableau instances.
- Set up a private network link to Tableau Server: Establish a secure, private network connection to Tableau Server for metadata extraction.
Concepts
- How Tableau popularity works: Understand how Atlan sources and computes popularity for Tableau Cloud assets.
References
- What does Atlan crawl from Tableau: Learn about the Tableau assets and metadata that Atlan discovers and catalogs.
- View-based popularity metrics: Supported assets, attribute mappings, score formula, and time windows for Tableau popularity.
- Preflight checks for Tableau: Verify prerequisites before setting up the Tableau connector.
- Image and versioning: Identify the Tableau app container image, its versioning scheme, and how to find the exact version assigned to your tenant.
Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting connectivity: Resolve common Tableau connection issues and errors.