Tableau · GraphQL Specification

Tableau GraphQL API

The Tableau Metadata API is a GraphQL-based API introduced in Tableau 2019.3 that enables querying of metadata about Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud content, data assets, and data lineage. It provides a rich schema for discovering relationships between workbooks, data sources, databases, tables, columns, fields, flows, users, projects, and more. The API supports querying data lineage at a granular level, making it valuable for data governance, impact analysis, and catalog tooling.

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Overview

Tableau GraphQL API is a GraphQL API specification published by Tableau on the APIs.io network.

The Tableau Metadata API is a GraphQL-based API introduced in Tableau 2019.3 that enables querying of metadata about Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud content, data assets, and data lineage. It provides a rich schema for discovering relationships between workbooks, data sources, databases, tables, columns, fields, flows, users, projects, and more. The API supports querying data lineage at a granular level, making it valuable for data governance, impact analysis, and catalog tooling.

The GraphQL endpoint is available at https://{YOUR_TABLEAU_SERVER}/api/metadata/graphql. documentation is published at https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/index.html.

The specification includes 8 reference links.

Tagged areas include Analytics, Business Intelligence, Dashboards, and Data Visualization.

Endpoint

https://{YOUR_TABLEAU_SERVER}/api/metadata/graphql

References

Related API Specs

Tableau REST API (OpenAPI)
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