Turn a slow live dashboard into a fast extract

The dashboard takes several seconds to redraw on every click.

Intermediate to advancedRead 6 minDoing: an afternoon8 steps

What you'll have at the end

The same dashboard running on a Tableau extract, redrawing filters in under a second, with unused fields hidden before it was built.

Before you start

You need

A workbook already built and running against a live connection to a real database table, with edit access to that connection.

Not covered

Whether this exact dashboard should stay live at all. A board that has to reflect the last few minutes belongs on live data tuned at the database end instead.

Leans on

8 steps

Where to go next

Publish a dashboard your manager can open alone

Reach for that once this dashboard needs to live somewhere a stakeholder can open without your laptop; publishing it and scheduling its refresh there is a separate step from making it fast.

Checked 26 Aug 2026

Part of the Tableau cookbook