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API documentation — Geckoboard
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Datasets API Report an error
“Geckoboard's Datasets API is a powerful and flexible way to compile data from in-house systems, third-party tools, and databases on your dashboard.”
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Sql datasets Report an error
“If you're looking to integrate your Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres and SQLite database(s) with Geckoboard, use SQL-Datasets.”
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Auth API key Report an error
“Authenticate and test your account when using the Datasets API by including your personal API key in the request.”
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Single dataset visualization Report an error
“Visualizations are powered by individual datasets, which means you can't combine data from two or more datasets to build a visualization”
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Server side aggregation Report an error
“Geckoboard can handle data aggregation and grouping, so there’s no need to pre-aggregate your data.”
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Field types Report an error
“The Datasets API currently supports the following types:”
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String limit Report an error
“All string fields must not contain more than 256 characters.”
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Money iso4217 Report an error
“This option accepts three character currency codes defined by the ISO 4217 standard.”
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Duration units Report an error
“duration fields can be set to milliseconds, seconds, minutes or hours.”
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Client libraries Report an error
“Geckoboard offers client libraries that make interacting with the API even simpler.”
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API endpoints Report an error
“PUT https://api.geckoboard.com/datasets/:id”
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Append records limit Report an error
“Should the number of records in your dataset exceed the 5000 records limit following an Append, old records will be discarded.”
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Unique by merge Report an error
“If you have included a unique_by array of fields, then any conflict between your new and existing records will be resolved by merging your updates into the contents of your dataset.”
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Rate limit Report an error
“This restricts you to 60 requests per minute for your API key.”
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Dataset records limit Report an error
“Each dataset can contain up to 5000 records.”
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Dataset columns limit Report an error
“Each dataset can contain up to 80 columns.”
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Records per request Report an error
“Each PUT or POST request will accept 500 records, which includes both new records and updates to existing records.”
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Datasets per account Report an error
“Each Geckoboard account is limited to 200 datasets.”
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Realtime updates Report an error
“Widgets powered by datasets update in real-time when new data is received.”
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Visualizations Report an error
“Your schema determines the visualizations that can be built with your dataset on a Geckoboard dashboard.”
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Table columns limit Report an error
“Tables are used to display data from up to 10 columns from a dataset.”
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Optional null fields Report an error
“All fields can be NULL if set to optional.”
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