Introduction to Data Import with Proxy

This section provides an overview of all of the capabilities to get data through proxy. Learn how to best leverage these capabilities to import data and create or update your datasets.

Background

Many enterprise customers cannot import data from URL sources, as they are in a proxy environment. This considerably inhibits their ability to ingest data from external sources, and limits MicroStrategy's ability to analyze the data. Supporting proxy considerably increases their ability to analyze any third-party data that is currently available via import from URL. There are also customers in a proxy environment who cannot access Facebook, Twitter, or other OAuth sources. In short, supporting proxy configuration is needed for customers in some limited network environment, which is typical in enterprise deployments.

Currently, MicroStrategy supports proxy for File from URL, Sample File, Twitter, Dropbox, Google Analytics, Google Drive, Google BigQuery, and BI Tools. Proxy servers with or without basic authentication are supported when setting a static proxy. MicroStrategy also supports proxy setting with PAC files, but cannot support PAC files with authentication. If authentication for proxy is required, the USE_PROXY_PAC value in config.json must be set to false.