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# Enable Tableau Catalog

[Tableau Catalog](https://help.tableau.com/current/online/en-gb/dm_catalog_overview.htm) discovers and indexes all of the content on your Tableau Cloud site or Tableau Server, including workbooks, data sources, sheets, metrics and flows. (The legacy Metrics feature was retired in February 2024 for Tableau Cloud and in Tableau Server version 2024.2. For more information, see [Create and Troubleshoot Metrics (Retired)](https://help.tableau.com/current/online/en-gb/metrics_create.htm).) Indexing is used to gather information about the content, or metadata, about the schema and lineage of the content. Then from the metadata, Catalog identifies all of the databases, files and tables used by the content on your Tableau Cloud site or Tableau Server.

Catalog is available with the Data Management licence. For more information, see [About Data Management](https://help.tableau.com/current/online/en-gb/dm_overview.htm).

In addition to Catalogue, metadata about your content can also be accessed from both the [Tableau Metadata API](https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-gb/index.html) and the Tableau REST API using [Metadata Methods](https://help.tableau.com/current/api/rest_api/en-gb/REST/rest_api_ref_metadata.htm).

## Catalog on Tableau Cloud

Catalog is automatically enabled when Tableau Cloud is licensed with the Data Management.

After your Tableau Cloud site has been licensed with the Data Management, the content that already exists on your Tableau Cloud site is immediately indexed. The time it takes to index the content depends on the amount of content you have. After the content is initially indexed, Catalogue monitors newly published content and other changes to assets and continues to index in the background.

## Troubleshoot Catalogue

You or your users might encounter one of the following issues when using Catalogue.

#### Timeout limit and node limit exceeded messages

To ensure that Catalogue tasks that have to return a large number of results don’t take up all system resources, Catalogue implements both timeout and node limits.

- **Timeout limit**
    
    When tasks in Catalogue reach the timeout limit, you and your users see the following message:
    
    “_Showing partial results, Request time limit exceeded. Try again later._” or TIME\_LIMIT\_EXCEEDED
- **Node limit**
    
    When tasks in Catalogue reach the node limit, you and your users see the following message:
    
    NODE\_LIMIT\_EXCEEDED