Thursday, October 23, 2014

Google Analytics auto extractions on Tableau Server: GetOAuthUsername caught exception processing specs Response code: 500

The Google Analytics connector will throw odd 500 errors if you don’t configure the Run As account to use the proxy server. If you happened to have Tableau Desktop installed on the Tableau Server machine, everything would have worked just fine…. because you had likely set your own proxy server settings. You also need to set the proxy server configs for your Tableau Server’s Run As account… there, I said it twice.


You have to login/RDP to the Tableau Server as the Run As account to do this. Running IE as the Run As account and configuring the proxy server didn’t “stick” (after setting it, I immediately opened up the configs again and they were reset to default). You have to RDP in. If you don’t, here’s an error you see when publishing a workbook to the server:


An error occurred when publishing the data source.

GetOAuthUsername caught exception processing specs Response code: 500





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