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Confluence Data Connector Set Up

The Confluence Data Connector syncs data from your Confluence pages. The data connector can be set up with both cloud and server instances of Confluence.

To begin, reach out to BigPanda support and provide credentials for your Confluence instance. The user account provided must have at least read permission access to all of the pages that will be synced from Confluence.

These credentials are required:

Field

Description

URL

The URL of your Confluence instance (https://your-domain.atlassian.net)

Username

Username of the account used to access Confluence.

API Token

The API token of the account used to access Confluence. (If you have not yet generated an API token for this integration, follow these instructions.)

Cloud

Whether or not your instance is Confluence Cloud. (True or False)

The BigPanda team will use your Confluence credential information to set up the data connector. Certain fields and options are customizable depending upon your organization’s preferences and requirements.

Sync Preferences

Provide the following information about your sync preferences to BigPanda:

Option 

Description 

Space keys

The unique key(s) of your Confluence space(s). 

The key can be found in your Confluence URL after /spaces/ (i.e.: https://yourinstance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/<spacekey>/)

Mode

Determine whether you’d like to set up an incremental or historical sync.

Most organizations will need to use both modes. See the Streaming Modes section for more information.

Endpoints fetched

The connector can fetch pages, spaces, users, groups, content, and templates.

Start date

If you’re setting up a historical sync, provide the date of when you’d like the sync to begin.

We recommend syncing one year of data.

End Date

Used for historical syncs only. Provide an end date to backfill historical syncs.

When end_date is provided alongside start_date, the connector automatically uses an isolated pipeline name ({pipeline_name}_backfill) to prevent the backfill from corrupting the incremental sync cursor.

Page size

The number of items requested from Jira in a single call. Default: 50

Query limit

How many requests can be made to the Jira project per minute. Default: 60

Rate Limit Timeout (MS)

The timeout period in milliseconds after the query limit has been reached. The default is 1000 ms (1 second).

CQL filters (Optional)

You can use Confluence Query Language (CQL) to set up content filters. This allows you to extract only the content that matches your criteria. 

Disable compression

Compression can be disabled to ensure exact accuracy of ingested data.

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