About the Tableau integration

Warning The end of life of Jobserver and all related Jobserver integrations has been announced for September 30, 2024. This means that the Tableau via Jobserver integration method is deprecated and will also reach its end of life on September 30, 2024. To integrate Tableau metadata and create lineage, please use Edge or lineage harvester.

Tableau integration means registering Tableau as a system in Collibra Data Intelligence Platform and ingesting, or synchronizing, the Tableau metadata. After synchronization, metadata from Tableau Server or Tableau Online are represented in Collibra by specific asset and domain types, retaining their original names.

Tableau ingestion

The table below shows the steps required for ingesting Tableau metadata.

Step

What?

Description
1 Register Tableau as a system. Creates an initial structure of a community, BI Catalog domain and Tableau Server asset in the selected parent community.
2 Connect to Tableau Server or Tableau Online. Connects to Tableau server or Tableau Online.
3 Synchronize Tableau Server or Tableau Online.

Ingests the metadata from Tableau.

4

 Stitch Tableau logical data layer and physical data layer.

Optionally, stitch Tableau assets to assets of registered data sources in Data Catalog.

Authentication

Data Catalog uses Tableau's REST API to get metadata information and follows Tableau's requirements regarding authentication methods. As a consequence, you need a Tableau user with access to the relevant Tableau sites.

For more information, see the Tableau documentation.

Password encryption

Collibra's integration of Tableau does not use a separate encryption services, but reuses the Collibra DGC core service encryption method. This method uses the AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding transformation to encrypt your passwords when you connect to Tableau.

Limitations

Collibra does not support the following Tableau features:
  • Gzipped encoding in REST results from Tableau.
  • Tableau data sources that are created using Custom SQL.
  • Tableau data sources that are created using Multiple tables union.

Supported Tableau Server versions

Collibra Data Intelligence Platform supports the following Tableau Server versions. We will continue to update this list, but we don't expect any issues with future versions of Tableau.

  • 10.4
  • 10.5
  • 2018.x
  • 2019.x
  • 2020.1
  • 2020.2
  • 2020.3
  • 2020.4
  • 2021.1
  • 2021.2
  • 2021.3
  • 2021.4

Note Depending on your Tableau version, Data Catalog uses different APIs to integrate Tableau. You need different Tableau permissions according to the Tableau version that you want to integrate.