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Prerequisites
In order to ingest metadata from Tableau, you will need:
- Tableau Server Version 2021.1.10 and above. It may also work for older versions.
- Enable the Tableau Metadata API for Tableau Server, if its not already enabled. This is always enabled for Tableau Cloud.
Authentication
DataHub supports two authentication methods:
- Username/Password
- Personal Access Token
Either way, the user/token must have at least the Site Administrator Explorer site role.
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We need at least the Site Administrator Explorer site role in order to get complete metadata from Tableau. Roles with higher privileges, like Site Administrator Creator or Server Admin also work.
With any lower role, the Tableau Metadata API returns missing/partial metadata. This particularly affects data source fields and definitions, which impacts our ability to extract most columns and generate column lineage. Some table-level lineage is also impacted. Other site roles, like Viewer or Explorer, are insufficient due to these limitations in the current Tableau Metadata API.
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Ingestion through UI
The following video shows you how to get started with ingesting Tableau metadata through the UI.