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About the Amazon QuickSight collector

Important

The Amazon QuickSight collector can be run on-premise using Docker or Jar files.Docker or Jar files.

Use this collector to harvest metadata for Amazon QuickSight Analyses, Dashboards, Datasets, Datasources and Folders.

Note

The latest version of the Collector is 2.247. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.

An example of metadata from a QuickSight Analysis, including Lineage:

quicksight-metadata-lineage.png

What is cataloged

The collector catalogs the following information.

Table 1.

Object

Information cataloged

Analysis

  • Arn

  • Name

  • CalculatedFields

    • Name

    • Expression

  • FilterGroups

    • FilterGroupId

    • CrossDataset

    • Status

    • Filters: Type

  • ParameterDeclarations

    • Name

    • Type

  • Sheets

    • SheetId

    • Name

    • Description

    • Title

    • ContentType

    • Visuals: Type

  • Status

  • CreatedTime

  • LastUpdatedTime

Dashboard

  • Arn

  • Name

  • CreatedTime

  • LastUpdatedTime

  • LastPublishedTime

  • Status

  • Version Number

Dataset

  • Arn

  • ConsumedSpiceCapacityInBytes

  • CreatedTime

  • ImportMode

  • LastUpdatedTime

  • Name

  • OutputColumns: Name, Description, Type, SubType

Datasource

  • Arn

  • CreatedTime

  • LastUpdatedTime

  • Name

  • Status

  • Type

  • DataSourceParameters

Folder

  • Arn

  • CreatedTime

  • FolderPath

  • FolderType

  • LastUpdatedTime

  • Name

  • SharingModel



Relationships between objects

By default, the harvested metadata includes catalog pages for the following resource types. Each catalog page has a relationship to the other related resource types. If the metadata presentation for this data source has been customized with the help of the data.world solutions team, you may see other resource pages and relationships.

Table 2.

Resource page

Relationship

Analysis

  • Is published in Dashboard

  • Is contained within folder

Dashboard

  • Is published version of Analysis

  • Is contained within folder

Folder

  • Contains Analysis

  • Contains Dashboard

  • Contains Dataset

Dataset

  • Is contained within folder



Lineage for Amazon QuickSight

Table 3.

Object

Lineage available

QuickSight Analysis

Uses data from QuickSight Dataset.

QuickSight Dataset

Sourced data from QuickSight Datasource.

QuickSight Datasource

Sourced data from Datasource (Relational databases, S3, Athena, Bigquery).



Authentication supported

  • The Amazon QuickSight Collector supports standard AWS client authentication methods. You can read more details on AWS authentication here.

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