Capture Data From Collibra to build Reporting Dashboards

Hi team,
We are trying to find ways to analyze our data captured/stored with Collibra. We need to build some interactive reports or dashboards on top of data stored within Collibra. I am aware Collibra Insights does have some capability around it, but I believe its an additional license service to be procured.
Any advice on the topic would help,
Thanks,
Gaurav P

gauravpatole

Posted 4 years ago · Edited 1 year ago·Last reply 4 years ago

3 comments

arthurburkhardt

·4 years ago · Edited

Well yeah, this one is pretty technical as well.
This is part of the standard collibra documentation: https://productresources.collibra.com/documentation/

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Output Module: PDF

It’s essentially a collibra-specific query language that allows to extract information interactively, as if you would query a database. This enables you to build real-time dashboards.

You can find the endpoint in the regular Collibra rest (and java) APIs
Rest Core API - Collibra - Developer

gauravpatole

OP4 years ago · Edited

Thanks @arthur.burkhardt for your reply. Can you share bit more details around the outputmodule, where do we find it in Collibra, how do we access it, etc. The links you shared talks about lot of programming stuff, which is bit difficult to understand for me

arthurburkhardt

·4 years ago · Edited

Sure, the outputmodule will be your friend.
Just make sure to implement pagination correctly to avoid out of memory issues. The output module is a pretty barebone access, so you have to implement reliability in your code.

OutputModule results in PowerBI - Authentication / Connection - Developers - The Data Citizens Community (collibra.com)
Output Module Error Response, raising awareness. - Developers - The Data Citizens Community (collibra.com)