Video Tutorials
Product Overview
Getting Started with Nexla
This Quick Start Guide first briefly introduces the Nexla interface and then demonstrates how to create a simple data flow in the platform.
Integrate: Overview & Features
Nexla’s Integrate section is the hub for building and modifying data flows to discover, create, and transport refined data products for any workflow.
Monitor: Overview & Features
In Nexla, users can conduct any governance or troubleshooting task directly within the screens available in the Monitor section.
Resource Search Interface
With Nexla’s powerful and flexible search interface, users can quickly and easily locate any resource, category of resources, or data of interest, no matter how many resources the account contains.
Quick Start Guides
DB-CDC Flows: Quick Start Guide
This video includes a step-by-step guide to creating a DB-CDC flow in Nexla, along with information about customizing and applying these flows.
Spark ETL Flows: Quick Start Guide
In this quick start guide, users will learn more about Spark ETL data flows and see a step-by-step guide to creating a Spark ETL flow in Nexla.
Replication Flows: Quick Start Guide
In this video, users will learn more about Replication data flows and see a step-by-step guide to creating a Replication flow in Nexla.
Integrate
Integrate: Overview & Features
Nexla’s Integrate section is the hub for building and modifying data flows to discover, create, and transport refined data products for any workflow.
No-Code, Bidirectional Connectors
Nexla’s universal, bidirectional connectors can be used to connect to any data source or destination within seconds, without writing any code.
API Sources: Basic and Advanced
Nexla's automated tools and prebuilt connectors make it simple and easy to onboard new APIs, chain them together, and set up complicated lookups within minutes.
Get Real-time Data in Google Sheets
Instantly move data from any source, such as an API or database, to Google Sheets.
Catalog Any Data in Alation
Nexla makes it easy to automatically catalog any data in Alation, including schemas and samples, regardless of the data's source.
Tableau Destination
Tableau is a popular visualization tool for business intelligence, and Nexla makes it easy to connect data from any system to Tableau within minutes.
Creating & Using Data Lookups
Nexla’s static and dynamic data lookups make data cataloguing and searching a breeze.
Branching Data Flows
Easily create branching data flows and manage many different datasets, flows, and destinations in Nexla.
Database as a Service
Nexla makes building an API from any database or real-time data source easy, powerful, and efficient, as shown in this walk-through of setting up a shareable data API from an SQL database.
Monitor
Monitor: Overview & Features
In Nexla, users can conduct any governance or troubleshooting task directly within the screens available in the Monitor section.
Transform
Nexset Designer Overview
Learn about all of the functions and features of the Nexset Designer—the screen used to design transformations of incoming data and create new Nexsets.
Using Pre-Built Transforms
Nexla's no-code, pre-built transformations make data preparation, integration, and delivery easy for anyone.
Using Custom Transforms
Learn about Nexla’s custom reusable transforms for advanced users.
Data Masking for PII by Hashing
Nexla handles data governance by making it easy to track, mask, and slice data flows to ensure that no one can access data that they shouldn't.
Enriching Data with API Calls
Collaborate
Sharing Account Credentials
Securely share credentials for data sources or destinations with a few clicks, avoiding the need to share passwords across the organization.
Sharing Data and Data Flows
Collaborate on data operations with simple sharing and access management for any dataset or data flow.
#### Sharing Data with PartnersCreate and share precise data flows with partners—data begins to flow automatically, and the data flow updates with any changes in the data source.
Use Cases
Automatic Ticket Sync on FreshService and FreshDesk
Nexla makes it easy to set up a flow to move tickets between FreshService & FreshDesk and places like Okta, ServiceNow, JIRA, and more in just minutes, without any code.
Nexla Command Line Interface (CLI)
Nexla’s powerful Command Line Interface for developers integrates everything Nexla has to offer into your favorite terminal. This video provides an overview of the CLI and then migrates a flow from Dev to Production using the CLI.
Managing CI/CD Pipelines for Data
With Nexla, building pipelines and promoting them to production on your CI server is simple and straightforward. This demo promotes a sample data flow to our Jenkins CI server and shows how easy it is to track Dev or Prod flows in Nexla.