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Connect to a data source

A data source is a supported database or application housing the data you’d like to access. Data sources could be within Atlassian or external, third-party tools.

When you connect a data source to Insights, you set up an integration with it. This means that when you ask questions in Insights, your answers will contain the most up-to-date data that’s available from the connected data sources

Atlassian data sources

Atlassian Data Lake

Your Insights app is automatically connected to Atlassian Data Lake. This will give you access to data across different Atlassian apps within your organization. Read about Atlassian Data Lake

Teamwork Graph

In addition to Atlassian Data Lake, you can also connect to Teamwork Graph, which connects teamwork data from across Atlassian apps, like Jira and Confluence, as well as external tools.

When you access Insights, you will be prompted to connect Teamwork Graph. Follow the instructions to connect it to Insights.

Jira Align Enterprise Insights

If you have Jira Align, your Insights app is automatically connected to it. This will enable your organization to access your Jira Align data in Insights. Read about Jira Align Enterprise Insights

Third-party data sources

Insights also lets you connect to your third-party data sources. With the help of Atlassian and third-party data sources, Insights can provide more robust answers and create detailed dashboards.

The supported data sources include:

Data source

Availability in plans (Standard, Premium, and Enterprise)

BigQuery

Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans

Databricks

Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans

Google sheets

Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans

Microsoft SQL server

Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans

MySQL

Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans

Oracle

Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans

Postgres

Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans

Redshift

Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans

Snowflake

Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans

Airflow

Enterprise only

dbt Cloud

Enterprise only

dbt Core

Enterprise only

Fivetran

Enterprise only

Glue

Enterprise only

Looker

Enterprise only

PowerBI

Enterprise only

Quicksight

Enterprise only

Tableau

Enterprise only

Read what metadata is collected from third-party data sources

Connect to a third-party data source

To connect to a third-party data source:

  1. Under Data context, select Data sources.

  2. Select Add data source.

  3. Select the third-party app or tool you want to connect to.

  4. Add the required information and follow the steps in the UI to establish a connection. Refer to the third-party app’s integration documentation, if required.

Set query permissions for data sources

Organization admins can control access to internal and third-party data sources by setting permissions on who can query certain sources.

To modify query permissions for data sources:

  1. Select Data sources from the sidebar.

  2. Select a data source from the list. If you don’t see the data source you need, select Add data source to connect to the data source.

  3. Select Preferences and find the Query permissions section.

  4. Add the users or groups you want to provide permission to for Rovo Insights and Previews. By default, all users in the organization are granted permission to query a data source.

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