You Can Now Monitor Tableau Bridge Status in Your Activity Log #Tableau #TableauBridge #tableaucloud

0:00Tableau Bridge client status in ActivityLog.

0:02So ActivityLog is a capability that tracks pretty much everything that's going on inside of your Tableau Cloud or your Tableau Server environment.

0:09In Tableau Cloud, it tracks some specific things related to Tableau Cloud.

0:13Here, what they're doing is they're letting you see the status of your Tableau Bridge instance.

0:17Now Tableau Bridge

0:18is a capability that runs inside of your own organization.

0:21It essentially sits on a machine or a server inside of your own organization.

0:25And anytime Tableau Cloud needs a refresh of a data extract

0:29It pings Tableau Bridge and says, hey, can you reach inside the firewall and update this data source for me?

0:34Tableau Bridge does the work and then pushes the data source back up to Tableau Cloud.

0:38You need this because there is Tableau Cloud needs a way to get into the company firewall.

0:43And so what you have is essentially, let me use a really bad term for this, Trojan horse that sits within your firewall, that is monitored and checked, of course, set up with IT.

0:52And that's the only thing that can communicate to Tablet Cloud.

0:55Being able to see the status of this lets you know if an extract is going to fail or if something happens, and so you can monitor this over time and make sure that your activity log is

1:04telling you about all the issues and instances.

1:06For example, if someone switches the server off, you need to know that Tableau Bridge is down and actually all your extracts that are set to call Tableau Bridge won't succeed.

1:13So this is this is quite nice