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Connect your data sources to make them available across projects in your Orion tenant.

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Accessing Data Sources

  1. Go to Configuration in the left-hand navigation menu
  2. Select the Data Sources tab
The Data Sources tab in Configuration, showing connected data source tiles Once you’ve set up access on the source side (service accounts, grants, API keys), this page is where you enter those connection details.

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How Data Sources Work

Data sources are configured at the tenant level and made globally available:
  • Tenant-level setup - Administrators connect data sources once in Configuration
  • Tenant-wide by default - Connected data sources are available across the tenant, subject to each user’s role and group membership
  • Role limits - What a user can do with a data source depends on their role: Admins manage connections, Analysts query them, and Viewers query only where a project owner allows it
  • Group scoping - Groups limit which data sources their members can use
  • Project-level selection - Each project can choose which data sources to use
  • Multiple data sources - A project can connect to multiple data sources simultaneously

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Supported Data Sources

Orion currently supports connections to:
  • BigQuery - Google’s data warehouse platform
  • Snowflake - Cloud data platform
  • Databricks - Lakehouse data platform
  • Redshift - Amazon’s cloud data warehouse
  • Microsoft Fabric - Microsoft’s analytics warehouse
  • PostgreSQL - Open-source relational database
  • MySQL - Open-source relational database
  • Delta Lake - Delta tables on cloud storage (ADLS Gen2 or GCS)
  • Looker - Dashboards, Looks, and LookML business logic
  • Shopify - E-commerce platform
  • Google Analytics - Web analytics platform
  • dbt - Model metadata and lineage, used to enrich a warehouse connection
For the credentials, grants, and step-by-step setup each source needs, see Connecting Data Sources. Beyond these tenant-level connections, users can also upload Excel files in chat and query them as ad hoc data sources for a single analysis. See File Uploads.
Setup guides for Shopify and Google Analytics are coming soon. In the meantime, your Gravity contact can provide documentation for connecting these sources.

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Adding a Data Source

As an administrator, you can:
  1. Click the Add Data Source tile
  2. Select the type of data source from the supported list
  3. Provide the necessary connection credentials and configuration
  4. Save the connection
The Choose a data source modal listing supported source types The data source is now available for all users to select when setting up projects.
Each data source has its own access requirements. See Connecting Data Sources for the credentials, grants, and network access each one needs.

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Managing Data Sources

Administrators can:
  • Update credentials - Change connection details if needed
  • Monitor status - Check the health of data source connections
  • Remove data sources - Disconnect data sources from the tenant
  • View usage - See which projects are using each data source
Start with one or two data sources and expand as your team’s analytical needs grow.