Connect Tableau to Glean
Give Glean governed access to Tableau’s 26 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Tableau to Glean in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Glean then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Add Tableau to Runlayer
Tableau isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Glean to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Glean by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Glean reaches Tableau’s 26 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Glean setup guide - 3
Sign in to Tableau
Sign in the way Tableau requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Tableau from Glean
Tableau’s approved tools appear in Glean. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
26 Tableau tools in Glean
Runlayer policy decides which of these Glean users can call.
Download workbook
Downloads workbook content as a TWB (application/xml) or TWBX (application/octet-stream) file.
Generate pulse insight brief
Generate a concise insight brief for Pulse Metrics using Tableau REST API.
Generate pulse metric value insight bundle
Generate an insight bundle for the current aggregated value for Pulse Metric using Tableau REST API.
Get custom view data
Retrieves comma-separated value (CSV) data for a Tableau Custom View (saved/personalized view state), including the user's filters.
Get custom view image
Retrieves an image of the specified custom view in a published viz.
Get datasource metadata
Retrieves metadata for a specified datasource by taking the basic, high level, metadata results from Tableau's VizQL Data Service and enriches them with additional context provided by Tableau's…
Get view
Retrieves information about the specified view, including upstream datasources, workbook information, project details, owner, tags, and usage statistics.
Get view data
Retrieves data for the specified view in a Tableau workbook, including the user's filters.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Glean
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Glean exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Tableau call from Glean passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Glean as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
OTLP telemetry (available)
Glean can send supported OpenTelemetry events to Runlayer for observe-only session visibility.
Native enforcement adapter (not available)
Runlayer has no device-side adapter for Glean yet, so control happens at the gateway.
In Glean
- Runlayer sees Glean activity through OpenTelemetry traces for monitoring only; enforcement happens at the gateway.
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