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

> 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:** 2026-02-15
- **Format:** Short · 1 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data engineering, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (activity log, bridge, cloud)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/you-can-now-monitor-tableau-bridge-status-in-your-activity-log-tableau-tableaubridge-tableaucloud
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZt4AF7cQhk

I explain a new feature that lets you monitor Tableau Bridge client status within the Activity Log in Tableau Cloud. I cover what Tableau Bridge is, how it sits inside your organisation's firewall to refresh data extracts, and why being able to see its status matters for catching failures.

## Key takeaways

- Activity Log tracks events across your Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server environment, and now includes Tableau Bridge client status.
- Tableau Bridge runs on a machine inside your own organisation's firewall and refreshes data extracts when Tableau Cloud requests them, pushing the updated source back up.
- Bridge is the only component permitted to communicate into your company firewall from Tableau Cloud, set up alongside IT.
- Monitoring Bridge status lets you spot when it goes down, for example if a server is switched off, so you know in advance that scheduled extracts will fail.

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/you-can-now-monitor-tableau-bridge-status-in-your-activity-log-tableau-tableaubridge-tableaucloud

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