Tableau Pulse
An AI-powered Tableau experience for personalized insights and guided exploration.
- Data & analytics · editorial fit
Overview
Tableau Pulse is a metrics and guided-insights experience within Tableau Cloud. It sends personalized metric digests through email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, then lets users open a metric in Tableau Cloud or Tableau Mobile to investigate trends, outliers, and contributing dimensions.
The standard Pulse workflow centers on governed metric definitions and pre-detected insights. Tableau Agent in Pulse adds conversational exploration across groups of related metrics for Tableau+ customers, with answers grounded in metric citations and visualizations rather than acting as a general data chatbot.
Supported use cases
Monitor business KPIs
Follow important metrics and receive regular summaries without opening a dashboard each time.
Investigate a metric change
Move from a digest into guided questions about trends, dimensions, and outliers.
Explore related metrics conversationally
Ask follow-up questions across a governed metric group when Tableau Agent in Pulse is enabled.
Limitations
Cloud and license requirements
Tableau Pulse runs in Tableau Cloud; Tableau Agent in Pulse is a Tableau+ feature that must be enabled by a site administrator.
Metric-scoped assistant
Tableau Agent in Pulse is specialized for configured Pulse metrics and is not intended for general question answering.
Key capabilities
Personalized metric digests
Delivers changes, trends, and other insights for followed metrics through common work channels.
Guided metric exploration
Surfaces detected insights and suggested questions for drilling into a single metric.
Conversational metric analysis
Tableau Agent in Pulse accepts natural-language questions across eligible groups of metrics and returns cited visual explanations.
Goals, thresholds, and alerts
Tracks metric goals or unfavorable changes and notifies followers when configured conditions occur.
