About Tableau Pulse

With Tableau Pulse, users receive personalised data insights about metrics that they follow. These insights are sent directly to users in email, Slack and Microsoft Teams digests, giving them access to the data they need in the tools they already use. If users want to learn more about their data, they can open the metric details page on Tableau Cloud or in Tableau Mobile. On that page, users can engage in guided data analysis to understand what is driving changes to their data.

Tableau Pulse is available for Tableau Cloud. To get a site ready for Tableau Pulse, a site administrator must first turn on the site setting for Tableau Pulse and make sure that there’s appropriate data to work with. Then, users can create metric definitions, which specify the core metadata for metrics. Users create metrics based on these definitions by adjusting filter and time options to scope the data in ways that are useful for different groups of followers.

The articles in this section help you get started with Tableau Pulse, whether you’re a Tableau administrator setting up your site, a Creator defining the metadata that metrics are based on, a Viewer exploring existing metrics or a developer embedding metrics.

ArticleAudienceAbout
Tableau Pulse Release NotesCreators, Explorers and ViewersFeature announcements for Tableau Pulse releases
Set Up Your Site for Tableau PulseSite AdministratorsSettings, permissions and requirements for Tableau Pulse
Create Metrics with Tableau PulseCreators, Site Administrator Explorers and Explorers (can publish)How to create metric definitions and metrics
Set Up Your Data for Tableau PulseCreators, Site Administrator Explorers and Explorers (can publish)Data source requirements for creating metric definitions
Explore Metrics with Tableau PulseCreators, Explorers and ViewersThe types of analysis you can do with metrics
Follow Metrics and Manage Followers in Tableau PulseCreators, Explorers and ViewersHow to follow metrics and add others as followers
Set Manual Goals and Thresholds with Tableau PulseCreators, Explorers and ViewersGoals and thresholds that let you track metric performance
Ask Questions and Discover Insights in Tableau Pulse(Link opens in a new window)Creators, Explorers and ViewersInsights from Tableau Agent in Pulse and Ask Q&A
The Insights Platform and Insight Types in Tableau PulseCreators, Explorers and ViewersThe insight types in Tableau Pulse and how the Insights platform works
Get Tableau Pulse AlertsCreators, Explorers and ViewersAlerts about unfavourable changes for the metrics that you follow
Work with Tableau Pulse Metrics and DashboardsCreators, Site Administrator Explorers and Explorers (can publish)The Pulse dashboard object and recommended metrics for dashboards
Premium Tableau Pulse CapabilitiesCreators, Explorers and ViewersTableau Pulse capabilities available for Tableau+ users
Tableau Pulse REST API Methods(Link opens in a new window)DevelopersThe API methods to create metrics, get metric details, generate insights and more
Embed Tableau Pulse(Link opens in a new window)DevelopersThe Tableau Embedding API web component for embedding metrics in a web page
Set Up the Pulse for Salesforce AppSalesforce customersThe Pulse app that Salesforce customers can purchase (no longer for sale)
Configure a Tableau Pulse Lightning Web ComponentSalesforce customersThe Tableau Pulse Lightning web component for Salesforce Lightning pages
Interact with Data on Tableau Mobile(Link opens in a new window)Creators, Explorers and ViewersTableau Pulse on Tableau Mobile
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