# Enabling Tableau Pulse | New in Tableau 2024.1

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2024-02-25
- **Format:** Video · 13 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy, Analytics
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, cloud, permissions, pulse, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/enabling-tableau-pulse-new-in-tableau-2024-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv8v_aia3K8

I walk through enabling Tableau Pulse on Tableau Cloud in the 2024.1 release, covering the two settings you need to toggle, how permissions for creating and viewing metrics work, and what happens to your existing and beta metrics. I also explain why Tableau Pulse is not coming to Tableau Server.

## Key takeaways

- Enabling Pulse needs two settings: the Tableau AI toggle for generative insight summaries, plus the separate Tableau Pulse toggle, which can be rolled out to specific users or groups for phased deployment.
- The AI does not generate the insights themselves; the insights come from your raw data and are passed to a generative system (ChatGPT in the background) purely to summarise them into natural language.
- Creating metrics requires connect permissions to the data source plus a Creator, Site Admin Explorer, or Explorer (can publish) role; viewing metrics depends on data source access via one of four credential criteria.
- Clicking Pulse moves you to a separate window with no link back to Tableau Cloud, so users should bookmark Cloud to avoid getting lost.
- Beta Pulse metrics get wiped and previously built classic metrics are deprecated and disappear on the move to the new Pulse, and Pulse will not come to Tableau Server.

## Chapters

- 0:17 Enabling Pulse and Tableau AI settings
- 2:52 Turning on Pulse for users or groups
- 4:01 The separate Pulse experience
- 5:18 How Pulse permissions work
- 8:16 Checking data source permissions in Cloud
- 10:04 Deprecated metrics and Server vs Cloud

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/enabling-tableau-pulse-new-in-tableau-2024-1

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