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.
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
References
- Documentation https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/index.html
- API Reference https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/reference/index.html
- Getting Started https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/docs/meta_api_start.html
- Authentication https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/docs/meta_api_auth.html
- Use Cases https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/docs/use-cases.html
- Release Notes https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/docs/meta_api_release_notes.html
- GitHub Samples https://github.com/tableau/metadata-api-samples
- GitHub Organization https://github.com/tableau