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Superset installation

https://superset.incubator.apache.org/

Installation procedure is described in here: https://superset.incubator.apache.org/installation.html

Ansible installation In our environment, superset is installed through Ansible -scripts and ran through docker

Frontend Connections to superset are proxied through HAProxy, check frontend-data.yml for current configuration.

Authentication Custom auth0 authentication is used.

Database Superset uses mysql as a storage for it's own configuration. As for actual data queries, superset queries 'tms-reports' PostgreSQL -database. This is created and updated by separate tms-reports -process.

Check services.xlsx for credentials for databases.

Monitoring

Service is automatically added to frontend monitoring, which tests all the url's served in environment. Notifications are shown in PRTG monitoring as well as in Slack.