Analytics Links
The Links flyout in the Analytics Workbench enables you to create, manage, and delete remote links.
In the Analytics Workbench, you can create remote links. These enable you to access data from outside the local Couchbase cluster.
A remote link is a link to a remote Couchbase cluster. You can create a remote link to any cluster to which you have access in Couchbase Cloud.
After you have created a remote link, you must create a dataset on that link to query the data.
Permissions Required
To create a remote link to a cluster, a user must have read and write access to all ( |
Access the Links Flyout
To access the Links flyout, click the Links button in the Analytics Workbench. The Links flyout is displayed.

Create a Link
The lower part of the Links flyout enables you to create remote links.
To create a remote link:
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In the Name box, enter a name for the link.
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Open the Dataverse drop-down list and select the dataverse where you want to create the link.
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Open the Destination Cluster drop-down list and select the remote cluster.
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Click Submit to create the link, or click the Reset link to clear the information.
If you close the Links flyout without creating the link, any information you have entered in the Links flyout is preserved. You can finish creating the link the next time you display the Links flyout.
Show Links
When any remote links exist, the upper part of the Links flyout shows a list of existing links.

The list displays the following information about each link:
Option | Description |
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Name |
The name of the link. |
Dataverse |
The name of the dataverse containing the link. |
Type |
The type of the link.
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To show details about a link, click on the link entry. The link details are displayed immediately below the link entry. Refer to Remote Couchbase Links.
To hide the link details, click on the link entry again.
It is not possible to modify an existing link. If you want to modify an existing link, you must delete it and recreate it. |
Remote Couchbase Links
The following information is available for remote Couchbase links.

Option | Description |
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Name |
The name of the link. |
Dataverse |
The name of the dataverse containing the link. |
Type |
The type of the link — in this case, Remote. |
Destination Cluster |
The link destination, including the remote library and the remote cluster. |