A Tableau Cloud client has requested a custom dashboard to help track which data sources are used most frequently in dashboards across their site…

To create a custom dashboard tracking data source usage in Tableau Cloud, there are two primary methods. The first is to use the Admin Insights project, which is available to site administrators. It contains pre-built, curated data sources, including Site Content, that provide metadata about workbooks, views, and data sources, allowing for the creation of custom administrative views. The second method is to programmatically query the metadata using the Tableau Metadata API. This API allows for detailed, custom queries to discover content and understand the relationships between assets, such as which dashboards are using specific data sources.

B. Query metadata through the GraphiQL engine.

GraphiQL is an in-browser tool used to explore and execute queries against the Metadata API. It is a means of using the API, not a distinct method itself. Option C is more fundamental.

D. Download metadata through Tableau Catalog.

Tableau Catalog is a feature for data discovery and lineage analysis. While it uses the underlying metadata, it does not provide a direct function to download this data for building custom dashboards. The Metadata API is the correct tool for that task.

1. Tableau Cloud Help

"Use Admin Insights to Create Custom Views": This document explains that "Admin Insights provides a curated data source that gives you a snapshot of your site's data... You can use the Admin Insights data sources to create your own custom views..." It specifically lists the "Site Content" (TS Content) data source which "Includes data on workbooks

views

data sources

and their users." This directly supports using this data source to track usage.

2. Tableau Cloud Help

"Tableau Metadata API": This official documentation states

"With the Tableau Metadata API

you can discover and query for all of the content on a Tableau... Cloud site... For example

you can use the Metadata API to... Find all the workbooks that connect to a specific data source." This confirms the API's purpose for accessing the necessary metadata.

3. Tableau Cloud Help

"Metadata API Introduction": This section clarifies the relationship between the API and tools like GraphiQL. It describes the API as the service that allows you to "query for metadata about the content" and GraphiQL as an "interactive

in-browser development environment (IDE)" for using the API. This supports the distinction that the API (Option C) is the method

while GraphiQL (Option B) is a tool.