Sisense / Periscope (beta)
Follow these steps to connect your Sisense/Periscope instance to Select Star.
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Follow these steps to connect your Sisense/Periscope instance to Select Star.
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To connect Periscope to Select Star, you will need...
Active Periscope Account email and password credentials or Google Account credentials, for Google SSO-enabled accounts
To calculate lineage and popularity based on the last 90 days of users' activity, you'll need to connect Select Star to the Data Warehouse that your Periscope instance is using to run queries.
To calculate popularity and top users, Select Star requires a mapping of periscope users to their email addresses, you'll need to prepare a CSV file with a user name: email
mapping.
Complete all of the following steps to see Periscope metadata, lineage, and popularity in Select Star.
(optional, only if you're using Google Single Sign-On)
Optional, only for Google SSO-enabled accounts
Prepare your Google Account credentials and contact Select Star support to help you with the setup process.
After completing the procedure, you should receive a file named periscope-credentials.json
. Please save it, as you will need this file in .
Go to the Select Star Settings
. Click Data
in the sidebar, then + Add
to create a new Data Source.
Choose Sisense/Periscope
in the Source Type dropdown and provide the following information:
For email / password authentication please leave the default Email and Password Credentials
checked. If your account uses Google SSO to authenticate, check Cookies json
.
Display Name: This value is Sisense / Periscope
by default, but you can override it if desired.
Email: Your Periscope Account email
Password: Your Periscope Account password
DB Connection: The database you are running Periscope on top of.
DB Username: The name of the service account user that runs Periscope queries in your DB Connection. It is not a Select Star service account. This is used to identify which queries Periscope runs so that Select Star can generate lineage between the database and Periscope.
Display Name: This value is Sisense / Periscope
by default, but you can override it if desired.
DB Connection: The database you are running Periscope on top of.
DB Username: The name of the service account user that runs Periscope queries in your DB Connection. It is not a Select Star service account. This is used to identify which queries Periscope runs so that Select Star can generate lineage between the database and Periscope.
Click the Connect
button.
Your metadata should start loading automatically. Please allow 24-48 hours to completely generate popularity and lineage.
When the sync is complete, you'll be able to explore Periscope in Select Star.
To complete the import, please prepare a CSV file with at least the following columns:
First Name
Last Name
Alternatively:
Full Name
and then contact Select Star support, support@getselectstar.com to do the import for you.
Google Auth credentials JSON file: The periscope-credentials.json
file created in .