Getting Started

New to GoodData? Follow this tutorial to get up to speed.

This series of articles walks you through the basics of starting with GoodData from scratch for your own project. In about 30 minutes, you will gain a vertical slice of how to connect data, create beautiful analytics, and embed them into your web application.

Get GoodData

If you do not have access to a running instance of GoodData, visit gooddata.com/trial to sign up for a trial account.

After you set up your trial account and log in, you will land on the homepage:

Screenshot of the GoodData trial homepage.

You can select the Explore a pre-built environment option to create a workspace connected to our demo database, complete with pre-built visualizations, metrics, and dashboards. This is a quick and easy way to explore GoodData’s capabilities. However, for learning purposes, this guide assumes you are starting from scratch.

Using Code?

GoodData offers a sleek and easy-to-use web interface. However, as a developer, you may also want to interact with GoodData programmatically. We maintain a suite of developer tools to make this straightforward. Everything you can do in the web UI is possible via our API.

If your current focus is to try out or onboard yourself to GoodData as fast as possible, using the web UI rather than programming tools, skip this step and proceed directly to 1. Connect Data.

Create API Token

To interact with GoodData programmatically, you need a valid API token. This token ensures secure access and authentication.

Steps:

  1. Go to Settings, find the Developers section, and next to Personal access tokens click Manage.

    Screenshot of the Settings page showing the Personal access tokens section.

  2. Click Create.

    Screenshot of the Manage personal access token dialog.

  3. Name your token and click Create.

    Screenshot of the Create personal access token dialog.

  4. Click Copy token and save it for later use.

    Screenshot of the Create personal access token dialog that displays the newly created API token.

    Your tokens are listed here:

    Screenshot of the Manage personal access token dialog showing the newly created API token.

    You can never display the token values again. If you lose your token value, you have to create a new one.

Other Resources

1. Connect Data