BigQuery integration

Learn how to populate metrics in Segflow via BigQuery.

Flow Analytics allows you to populate your metrics in Segflow with time-series data from BigQuery. Here’s how to do it.

1. Download credentials file from Google. If you’re unfamiliar with how to do this, see the “Creating a service account” section in this doc: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started

2. In Flow’s sidebar, click on integrations.

3. Click the “New Integration” button in the top card.

4. Choose “Google BigQuery” as the source.

5. Upload the credentials file (see step #1).

6. Click “Save”.

Adding BigQuery as a soruce to a metric and a board

1. Create a new metric and select BigQuery as source.

2. The output of the query must contain columns named “date” and “value”. We recommend that you test out the query in BigQuery before you input it into Flow.

3. Update the metric and run its query

4. You should see the data in the overview tab for the metric

If you get stuck, please reach out!