Samsara 

Samsara is a platform providing insights for physical operations.

• For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Herstellung einer Verbindung zu SaaS-Anwendungen.

• For more information about Lite connectors, see Klassifizierungen für SaaS-Anwendungskonnektoren.

• Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement Gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see Wann ist Data Movement Gateway erforderlich?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see Eine Übersicht über Zielaktualisierungsmethoden.

Landing tasks:

• Change data capture (CDC)

• Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

• Change data capture (CDC) using Change Tables

• Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

• Change data capture (CDC)

• Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your Samsara data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

To obtain your token:

1. Go to to the Settings page of the Samsara dashboard. application preferences.

2. Click the gear icon on the navigation bar. Are you a developer? Create an app….

3. Click API Tokens.

4. Click Add an API Token.

5. Select from a Read-only.

6. Copy and save your token in a secured file. You will need it to connect to the application.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Herstellung einer Verbindung zu SaaS-Anwendungen.

1. Fill in the required connection properties.

2. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

3. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.

4. Click Create.