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Data & Analytics · Advanced

Backgrounder

The Tableau Server process that runs scheduled and background jobs: extract refreshes, subscriptions, flows and alerts.

Definition

Heavy refresh workloads are scaled by adding Backgrounder processes or dedicating nodes to them with node roles.

Exam tip

Slow or queued extract refreshes = add or dedicate Backgrounder capacity.

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