Tableau

BI Tools

Catalog your Tableau workbooks, dashboards, and data sources — and trace every field back to the warehouse tables that power them.

Features

Feature Name	Supported	Notes
Authentication	✓	Personal Access Token (PAT)
Catalog Discovery	✓	Projects, Workbooks, Dashboards, Worksheets, Embedded and Published Data Sources
Table-level Lineage	✓	Traces Tableau assets to upstream warehouse tables
Column-level Lineage	✓	Traces dashboard fields to warehouse columns; fields using custom SQL are automatically tagged
Usage Statistics	✓	Per-user view counts via Tableau Admin Insights (requires Admin Insights to be enabled on your Tableau site)

What gets cataloged

Matia syncs the following Tableau objects into your catalog:

Tableau Object	Cataloged as	Notes
Project	Container	Nested project hierarchies are preserved
Workbook	Asset
Dashboard	Asset	Fields traced to upstream warehouse columns
Worksheet	Asset	Fields traced to upstream warehouse columns
Embedded Data Source	Asset	Custom SQL detected and tagged automatically
Published Data Source	Asset	Fields traced to upstream warehouse columns

The resulting lineage chain in Matia runs:

Warehouse Table → (Published or Embedded) Data Source → Worksheet / Dashboard

Column-level lineage narrows this further, linking individual dashboard fields to the warehouse columns they reference.

Custom SQL tagging

Fields that reference custom SQL queries are automatically tagged "Contains Custom SQL" in the catalog. This makes it easy to identify which reports depend on ad-hoc queries rather than standard table references.

Usage statistics

When Tableau's Admin Insights feature is enabled on your site, Matia pulls per-user view counts for each view. This surfaces which dashboards and worksheets are most-used and by whom, directly in the catalog.

Admin Insights is available on Tableau Cloud and on Tableau Server with the appropriate license. If Admin Insights is not enabled, the connector will still catalog all metadata and lineage — usage data will simply be absent.

Next Steps

Setup Guide — Connect Tableau to Matia
Release Notes — See recent changes