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:
- Learn about CLI Ingestion in the Introduction to Metadata Ingestion
- Tableau Ingestion Source
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