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Version: 1.6.0

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: