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Connecting to DX from BI tools

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DX enables you to connect directly to your DX database from business intelligence tools such as Looker, Power BI, and Tableau.

Instructions

Step 1- Create database user

  1. Navigate to the DB users section of the DX admin area.

  2. Click the "New user" button.

  3. Label the user with the name of your BI tool (e.g., "Looker").

Step 2- Connect to your database

From within DX, copy the Database URL which contains the database name, server host, username, and password for connecting your business intelligence tool. The Database URL contains multiple components of your database credentials interpolated into a single string, in the format below:

postgres://username:password@host/database_name

Full example

The following screenshots demonstrate the process of connecting to DX from Mode Analytics and creating a custom Cycle Time chart.

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