How To Connect To Newrelic Insights Data

Published: 29 May 2020
Last Modified Date: 01 Jun 2020

Question

How to integrate New Relic Insights Data with Tableau.

Environment

Tableau Server
Tableau Desktop

Answer

The ability to natively connect to New Relic Insights from Tableau is not currently built into the product.

The following workarounds might help:

Option 1: Use the following Web Data Connector https://github.com/tableau-mkt/insights-data-connector.
Note this WDC is not officially supported by either Tableau or New Relic
Web Data Connector

Option 2: Export the Insights data to CSV, and connect to the CSV using Tableau Desktop
Export Insights data to CSV file

Option 3: Use the Insights API to extract the data, and put it into a database which can be connected to from Tableau Desktop
Insights API

Option 4: If you just want to embed a dashboard created in Insights, you may be able to create a publicly accessible URL as per the first document below, then link to that external URL from your Tableau dashboard
Embed Insights charts in external webpages
Linking to Web Resources from a Dashboard

Additional Information

To voice your support for the inclusion of this enhancement in a future product release, please also add your vote to the following related Community Idea:
https://community.tableau.com/ideas/6414