Productboard connector

Important

This feature is in Beta. To use it, a workspace admin must turn on Lakeflow Connect for Productboard from the Previews page. See Manage Azure Databricks previews.

The managed Productboard connector in Lakeflow Connect ingests product hierarchy, roadmap, objectives, customer feedback notes, and workspace member data from Productboard into Azure Databricks.

Feature availability

Feature Availability
UI-based pipeline authoring Green check icon Supported
API-based pipeline authoring Green check icon Supported
Declarative Automation Bundles Green check icon Supported
Incremental ingestion Green check icon Supported
Only the notes table syncs incrementally.
Unity Catalog governance Green check icon Supported
Orchestration using Databricks Lakeflow Jobs Green check icon Supported
API-based column selection and deselection Green check icon Supported
API-based row filtering Red X icon Not supported
SCD Type 2 Green check icon Supported
Tables with VARIANT columns (features, products, components, notes, companies, users, release_groups, releases, objectives, key_results, initiatives, field_definitions, note_field_definitions) do not support SCD type 2.
Automated schema evolution: New and deleted columns Green check icon Supported
Automated schema evolution: Data type changes Red X icon Not supported
Automated schema evolution: Column renames Red X icon Not supported
Requires a full refresh.

Authentication methods

Authentication method Availability
OAuth U2M Red X icon Not supported
OAuth M2M (Server-to-Server OAuth with a JSON Web Token (JWT)) Green check icon Supported
Basic authentication (username/password) Red X icon Not supported
Basic authentication (API key) Red X icon Not supported

Ingest from Productboard in 3 steps

  1. Configure Productboard for ingestion (Admins): Set up Productboard to authenticate with Azure Databricks.
  2. Create a Unity Catalog connection (Admins): Create a connection in Catalog Explorer to store credentials for Azure Databricks to authenticate with Productboard.
  3. Create an ingestion pipeline (Admins or non-admins): Select any supported interface and create a pipeline from an existing connection.