Getting started

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Sign up for your Tarsal account

1. If you haven’t already, email support@tarsal.co for access, and then sign up here using your work email address.
2. Tarsal will send you an email with a verification link. After clicking the link, you’ll be taken to your new workspace.

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Set up a source

⭐ A source is wherever you want to ingest data from, whether that’s an API, data warehouse, or an SNS queue.

To set up a source:

1. On the dashboard, click Sources and then click + New source.
2. On the set up source page, select the source you want to set up from the Source type dropdown.
3. Fill out the displayed form to connect your source.
4. Click Set up source.

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Set up a destination

⭐ A destination is a data warehouse, data lake, SIEM, or wherever you want to load your extracted data.

To set up a destination:

1. On the dashboard, click Destinations and then click + New destination.
2. On the Set up the destination page, select the destination you want to set up from the Destination type dropdown.
3. Fill out the displayed form to connect your destination.
4. Click Set up destination.

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Set up a connection

⭐ A connection is an automated data pipeline that normalizes replicates data from a source to a destination.

To set up a connection:

1. On the dashboard, click Connections and then click + New connection.
2. On the New connection page, select a source:
   1. To use an existing source, select your source from the Source dropdown. Click Use existing source.
   2. To set up a new source, select the source you want to set up from the Source type dropdown. Then, go through the instructions above.
3. From the Replication frequency dropdown, select how often you want the data to sync from the source to the destination.
4. Optionally, set transformations you want to run on logs in-flight with VRL.
5. Click Set up connection.
6. Tarsal tests the connection. If the sync is successful, the Connection page is displayed.