Observability for the BI connector¶

Tinybird’s BI Connector is a PostgreSQL-compatible interface to data in Tinybird.

All Data Sources and published Pipes created in Tinybird are available as standard Postgres tables when you connect a BI tool to Tinybird, such as Tableau, Apache SuperSet or Grafana.

Until recently, BI usage was not available to track. We have now made two new Service Data Sources available that show stats about the BI Connector consumption: bi_stats_rt (real time) and bi_stats (aggregated per day and per query).

This information is also visible in a new information module in the dashboard for the BI Connector (only visible when active) and the Query API (visible to everyone).

Other notable changes ¶

• New docs with best practices and limitations around Tinybird’s BI connector.
• A guide about how to ingest streaming data from Google Pub/Sub.
• Previously, when you were running a partial replace job you couldn’t tell from the response whether it was running a full replace or a partial one. We’ve added a replace_condition attribute in the job response.
• Fixed a bug where clicking a data source in a Pipe’s Node would cause the page to scroll and annoyingly move the user away from the Node they were editing.
• We added supported ClickHouse® types to the documentation to avoid surprises.