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Superset

superset (apache variant)

A modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application.

The superset utility is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application. It requires Meltano version 2.0.

Alternate Implementations

Apache Software Foundation
Meltano (default)

Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

Dependencies

The Superset plugin requires Meltano version 2.0. If you're on an older version, make sure you update Meltano first.

Once you have Meltano running, you likely already have everything you need for Superset as well. If you do run into trouble installing Superset following the instructions below, check out the OS Dependencies section in the Superset documentation. Note that the rest of that guide is not relevant if you're using Meltano to manage your Superset installation, initialization, and configuration.

Installation and configuration

Add the superset utility to your project using
```
meltano add
```
:

meltano add utility superset --variant apache

Configure the superset settings using

meltano config

meltano config superset set --interactive

Next steps

If you're running Superset for the first time in a new environment, generate a new SECRET_KEY to increase security:
```
meltano config superset set SECRET_KEY $(openssl rand -base64 42)
```
Create an admin user: (use admin as username to be able to load the examples)
```
meltano invoke superset:create-admin
```
This is equivalent to superset fab create-admin in the Superset documentation
Optionally, load some example data to play with:
```
meltano invoke superset:load-examples
```
This is equivalent to superset load_examples in the Superset documentation
Launch the Superset UI and log in using the username/password you created:
```
meltano invoke superset:ui
```
By default, the UI will be available at at http://localhost:8088. You can change this using the ui.bind_host and ui.port settings documented below.

Add additional database drivers

Superset does not ship bundled with connectivity to databases, except for SQLite, which is part of the Python standard library. You’ll need to install the required packages for the database you want to use as your metadata database as well as the packages needed to connect to the databases you want to access through Superset.

You can find the list of supported databases and the appropriate PyPI (pip) packages in the Supported Databases and Dependencies section in the Superset documenation. These can then be added to your Meltano project by configuring a custom pip_url for the superset utility:

Find the superset plugin definition in your meltano.yml project file

Update the pip_url property to include the desired additional packages:

utilities:
- name: superset
  variant: apache
  pip_url: apache-superset==1.5.0 markupsafe==2.0.1 cryptography==3.4.7 snowflake-sqlalchemy

Re-install the plugin:
```
meltano install utility superset
```

Now when you (re)start Superset, you will be able to connect to a new type of database, like Snowflake in the example.

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

This plugin currently has no capabilities defined. If you know the capabilities required by this plugin, please contribute!

Settings

Meltano centralizes the configuration of all of the plugins in your project, including Superset's. This means that if the Superset documentation tells you to put something in superset_config.py, you can use meltano config, meltano.yml, or environment variables instead, and get the benefits of Meltano features like environments.

Most settings (those with simple values like strings, integers, booleans, lists, or dictionaries) can be added directly to meltano.yml, manually or using meltano config. For example, ROW_LIMIT = 5000 becomes meltano config superset set ROW_LIMIT 5000 on the CLI, or ROW_LIMIT: 5000 in meltano.yml. Just like in superset_config.py, config keys should be ALL_CAPS.

Advanced configuration

If you want to configure something more complex, like custom OAuth2 configuration, you can add a superset_config.py file somewhere in your project, put your Superset config there exactly as the documentation suggests, and tell Meltano to pass that to Superset along with the Meltano-managed configuration by adding the config_path property to the superset plugin definition in meltano.yml:

utilities:
- name: superset
  variant: apache
  pip_url: apache-superset==1.5.0
  config_path: analyze/superset/superset_config.py
  config:
    ROW_LIMIT: 5000

Properties defined in your own superset_config.py take precedence over those managed by Meltano, like ROW_LIMIT in the example.

Superset settings already known to Meltano

The superset settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

SECRET_KEY
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI
ui.bind_host
ui.port
ui.timeout
ui.workers

You can also list these settings using

meltano config

with the list subcommand:

meltano config superset list

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

Secret Key (SECRET_KEY)

Environment variable: SUPERSET_SECRET_KEY
Default Value: thisisnotapropersecretkey

App secret key used for securely signing the session cookie and encrypting sensitive information on the database. Equivalent to the SECRET_KEY setting in superset_config.py.