How to onboard a new source

This page will explain how to onboard a new source to the K platform.

There are 3 classes of sources:

Identity Stores - These are sources such as Active Directory or LDAP to load User and Group information into K.
Databases - These are sources such as Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake to load metadata and logs from the database source.
Tools - There are sources like Tableau, Alteryx, Informatica to load metadata and logs from the tool.

This function is restricted to K Administrators

Step 1) Add the new source

Select the Source Type
- If the source you are looking for is not available, select either Generic_database or Generic_tool
Depending on the Source Type selected different Connection Type options will appear. Sometimes there will only be one option (e.g. Load from file)
- DIRECT CONNECT - K will be configured to pull from the source.
- LOAD FROM FILE - K will receive files in a landing zone.
Complete the rest of the onboarding form.
- After you add the new source, you can always go back and update the connection by clicking on the edit icon

The source configuration will determine the type of schedule you can set.

Click on the Schedule Settings icon next to your new source
- For Source configured to LOAD FROM FILE - The admin can set a poll frequency.
- For Source configured to DIRECT CONNECT - The Admin can set a time to run.

Note that scheduling a source can take up to 15 minutes to propagate the change.

Select Platform Settings in the side bar
In the pop-out side panel, under Platform Settings click on Batch Manager
In Source Load click Run

Select the source that you just added and click Run
After the source is triggered, the screen will change to the Monitor tab where you can see the progress of the job.

A manual source load will also require a manual run of

To load all metrics and indexes with the manually loaded metadata. These can be found in the Batch Manager page