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You can follow this guide to connect to your ThoughtSpot instance to Curator.

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Preparing ThoughtSpot

  1. Verify your ThoughtSpot admin has enabled either SAML SSO or trusted authentication. If you are using trusted authentication, have the secret_key ready to add to the Curator configuration.
  2. Verify your ThoughtSpot admin has configured your Curator domain to be whitelisted for CORS and CSP.
  3. Have the credentials for a user with administrator access on the intended Org ready to add to the Curator configuration.
Note: The user with administrator access to the intended Org must also exist on the “Primary” Org. This is due to a limitation in the ThoughtSpot REST API where we can only query user details when we know the Org ID the user exists on. The “Primary” Org ID is always the same so we can confidently pull the user details when they exist there, but other Orgs have randomly generated ID’s that aren’t available in the ThoughtSpot UI anywhere. While the user must exist on the “Primary” Org for Curator to be able to pull its details, it doesn’t need to be an admin there, only on the intended Org.

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Connect to Curator

  1. Go to the backend of your Curator instance. Navigate to Integrations > Connections using the left-hand menu.
  2. Click the new New Connection button on the top of the page.
  3. Enter a name for the connection (something like “ThoughtSpot” is sufficient) and edit the slug if you’d like (but you don’t need to).
  4. Choose “ThoughtSpot in the Platform dropdown. If the option is disabled then you already have a ThoughtSpot Connection created.
  5. Fill out the form that appears below the Platform dropdown:
    • ThoughtSpot URL: The full URL to for your ThoughtSpot instance. e.g. https://example.thoughtspot.cloud
    • REST Connection Username: The username for a ThoughtSpot administrator.
    • REST Connection Password: The password for a ThoughtSpot administrator.
    • Use Trusted Authentication?: If you don’t have SAML enabled for your ThoughtSpot environment you need to use trusted authentication. Flip this switch on to enable it.
    • Trusted Authentication Secret Key: Enter the secret key your ThoughtSpot admin received when enabling trusted authentication.
  6. Hit “Save” at the top of the page.

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Troubleshooting

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ThoughtSpot Does Not Appear in the Backend Navigation

After saving a ThoughtSpot connection, the ThoughtSpot section may not appear in the backend navigation for some users. This is a permissions issue: the connection is valid, but the backend user has not been granted access to the ThoughtSpot plugin. Saving a ThoughtSpot connection does not grant any ThoughtSpot permissions, not even to the user who saved it. Grant them to each backend user who needs them:
  1. Log in as a super-administrator.
  2. Navigate to Settings > Administrators.
  3. Open the affected user’s record and click the Permissions tab.
  4. Under the ThoughtSpot section, enable ThoughtSpot administrator.
  5. Save the user record.