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# About Tableau Pulse

With Tableau Pulse, users receive personalised data insights about metrics that they follow. These insights are sent directly to users in email, Slack and Microsoft Teams digests, giving them access to the data they need in the tools they already use. If users want to learn more about their data, they can open the metric details page on Tableau Cloud or in Tableau Mobile. On that page, users can engage in guided data analysis to understand what is driving changes to their data.

Tableau Pulse is available for Tableau Cloud. To get a site ready for Tableau Pulse, a site administrator must first turn on the site setting for Tableau Pulse and make sure that there’s appropriate data to work with. Then, users can create metric definitions, which specify the core metadata for metrics. Users create metrics based on these definitions by adjusting filter and time options to scope the data in ways that are useful for different groups of followers.

The articles in this section help you get started with Tableau Pulse, whether you’re a Tableau administrator setting up your site, a Creator defining the metadata that metrics are based on, a Viewer exploring existing metrics or a developer embedding metrics.

| Article | Audience | About |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Tableau Pulse Release Notes](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_intro.htm) | Creators, Explorers and Viewers | Feature announcements for Tableau Pulse releases |
| [Set Up Your Site for Tableau Pulse](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_set_up.htm) | Site Administrators | Settings, permissions and requirements for Tableau Pulse |
| [Create Metrics with Tableau Pulse](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_create_metrics.htm) | Creators, Site Administrator Explorers and Explorers (can publish) | How to create metric definitions and metrics |
| [Set Up Your Data for Tableau Pulse](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_data_source_requirements.htm) | Creators, Site Administrator Explorers and Explorers (can publish) | Data source requirements for creating metric definitions |
| [Explore Metrics with Tableau Pulse](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_explore_metrics.htm) | Creators, Explorers and Viewers | The types of analysis you can do with metrics |
| [Follow Metrics and Manage Followers in Tableau Pulse](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_manage_followers.htm) | Creators, Explorers and Viewers | How to follow metrics and add others as followers |
| [Set Manual Goals and Thresholds with Tableau Pulse](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_goals.htm) | Creators, Explorers and Viewers | Goals and thresholds that let you track metric performance |
| [Ask Questions and Discover Insights in Tableau Pulse](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_ask_discover_qa.htm) | Creators, Explorers and Viewers | Insights from Tableau Agent in Pulse and Ask Q&A |
| [The Insights Platform and Insight Types in Tableau Pulse](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_insights_platform_insight_types.htm) | Creators, Explorers and Viewers | The insight types in Tableau Pulse and how the Insights platform works |
| [Get Tableau Pulse Alerts](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_alerts.htm) | Creators, Explorers and Viewers | Alerts about unfavourable changes for the metrics that you follow |
| [Work with Tableau Pulse Metrics and Dashboards](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_dashboard.htm) | Creators, Site Administrator Explorers and Explorers (can publish) | The Pulse dashboard object and recommended metrics for dashboards |
| [Premium Tableau Pulse Capabilities](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_capabilities.htm) | Creators, Explorers and Viewers | Tableau Pulse capabilities available for Tableau+ users |
| [Tableau Pulse REST API Methods](https://help.tableau.com/current/api/rest_api/en-gb/REST/rest_api_ref_pulse.htm) | Developers | The API methods to create metrics, get metric details, generate insights and more |
| [Embed Tableau Pulse](https://help.tableau.com/current/api/embedding_api/en-gb/docs/embedding_api_pulse.html) | Developers | The Tableau Embedding API web component for embedding metrics in a web page |
| [Set Up the Pulse for Salesforce App](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/pulse_salesforce.htm) | Salesforce customers | The Pulse app that Salesforce customers can purchase (no longer for sale) |
| [Configure a Tableau Pulse Lightning Web Component](https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/online/en-gb/lwc_tableau_pulse.htm) | Salesforce customers | The Tableau Pulse Lightning web component for Salesforce Lightning pages |
| [Interact with Data on Tableau Mobile](https://help.tableau.com/current/mobile/mobile-user/en-gb/tableau_mobile_interact.htm) | Creators, Explorers and Viewers | Tableau Pulse on Tableau Mobile |

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