Products
Technical specifications
Operating systems
Windows
- Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 (x64), Windows 11
- 2 GB memory
- 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
- CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
Mac
- macOS Catalina 10.15, macOS Big Sur 11.4+, macOS Monterey 12.6+ (for Tableau 2022.3+) and macOS Ventura (for Tableau 2022.3+)
- Intel processors
- Apple Silicon processors (using Rosetta)
- 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
Virtual environments
- Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels and VMware.
- All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements. CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets so any Processor Compatibility mode must be disabled.
Internationalisation
- Tableau Desktop is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
- The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.
Tableau Desktop data sources
Tableau Prep requirements
OS requirements
Windows
- Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 (x64), Windows 11
Mac
- macOS Catalina 10.15, macOS Big Sur 11.4+, macOS Monterey 12.6+ (for Tableau 2022.3+) and macOS Ventura (for Tableau 2022.3+)
Minimum system requirements
Windows
- Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 (dual core)
- 4 GB memory or larger
- 2 GB HDD free or larger
- CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
Mac
- Intel processors - Core i3 (dual core) or newer
- Apple Silicon processors (using Rosetta)
- 4 GB memory or larger
- 2 GB HDD free or larger
Recommended requirements
Windows
- Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 (quad core)
- 16 GB memory or larger
- 2 GB SSD free or larger
Mac
- Intel Core i7 (quad core)
- 16 GB memory or larger
- 2 GB SSD free or larger
High-performance requirements
Windows
- Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 (8 Core)
- 32 GB memory or larger
- 2 GB SSD free or larger
Virtual environments
- Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels and VMware.
- All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements. CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets so any Processor Compatibility mode must be disabled.
Internationalisation
- Tableau Prep is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
- The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.
Prep Conductor
- For Prep Conductor technical specifications, see Tableau Server.
Tableau Prep data sources
Tableau Server requirements
Tableau Server
Web browsers
- Chrome on Windows, Mac and Android
- Microsoft Edge on Windows
- Mozilla Firefox & Firefox ESR on Windows and Mac
- Apple Safari on Mac and iOS
- Tableau Mobile iOS and Android Apps, available from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store respectively
Minimum requirements for installation
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019 (x64)
- Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3+ and 8.3+, CentOS 7.9+ (not 8.x), Oracle Linux 7.3+ (not 8.x), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS on x86 chipsets
- CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
The minimum specifications are only suggested for prototyping and testing Tableau Server. The installer checks for the minimum system requirements and will not proceed on computers with less than these hardware minimums:
- 4 cores / 8v-CPU (ex.AWS)
- 64 GB system memory (initial node)
- 16 GB system memory (additional node in multi-node deployment)
- 15 GB minimum free disk space
Minimum recommendations for production
The minimum configuration recommended for production usage of Tableau Server is based on these hardware specifications:
- 8 physical cores / 16V-CPU (e.g. AWS)
- 128 GB system memory
- 50 GB minimum free disk space
Tableau Prep Conductor
We recommend deploying Tableau Prep Conductor on a dedicated node with a minimum of 4 cores and 16 GB of memory. Additional resources may be needed depending on the use case. Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance.
Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool
The Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool has two components: an agent that is installed on each node of the Tableau Server cluster it is monitoring, and the RMT Server for processing and hosting the web service. A separate machine/VM is needed for the RMT Server, where all processing and analysis takes place. The minimum specifications for the RMT Server are:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019
- Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3+ and 8.3+, CentOS 7.9+ (not 8.x), Oracle Linux 7.3+ (not 8.x), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS on x86 chipsets
- CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
- 8 physical CPU cores (16 vCPUs)
- 64GB RAM
- 500GB disk space, SSD drive or similar for performance
For RMT Server installations that match the minimum hardware specified above, the Resource Monitoring Tool can provide performance reporting for Tableau Server deployments serving up to 10,000 views per hour.
For deployments with more view loads per hour, or very high numbers of background jobs, data delays may occur. In these cases, you may need to upgrade your hardware.
Tableau Content Migration Tool
The Content Migration Tool is run from a Windows computer and is able to connect to Tableau Servers with Advanced Management enabled. To review compatible versions of Tableau Server and Content Migration Tool, please check here. The minimum specifications are:
- Microsoft Windows 8 or newer (x64)
- Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 (dual core)
- 4 GB or larger
- 2 GB HDD free or larger You may need additional disk space if you are migrating large amounts of content. All content is stored locally on disk during a migration.
Enterprise deployments
Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance.
Read our Tableau Server Scalability white paper for architecture recommendations and to see benchmark results.
View additional white papers for more information about scalability, high availability and optimising Tableau for the enterprise.
User authentication and security
Supports Microsoft Active Directory, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect and built-in Tableau users and groups for user authentication and group membership definitions. Kerberos support for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and Cloudera Impala. LDAP for Tableau Server on Linux.
Virtual environments
Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels, VMware (including vMotion), Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
All Tableau products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying operating system and minimum hardware requirements. CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets so any processor compatibility mode must be disabled. We recommend VM deployments with dedicated CPU affinity.
Internationalisation
The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.
Tableau Server data sources
Tableau Cloud
Web browsers
- Chrome on Windows, Mac and Android
- Microsoft Edge on Windows
- Mozilla Firefox & Firefox ESR on Windows and Mac
- Apple Safari on Mac and iOS
Data sources
- Extracts of all data sources compatible with Tableau Desktop. Note, extracts of multidimensional (cube) data sources are not available.
- Live connections to many data sources, both hosted in the cloud and on-premises via the Tableau Bridge client. See the complete list here.
- For more information on the differences between live connections and extracts in Tableau Cloud, view the white paper.
Storage
- 100 gigabytes
Internationalisation
- Tableau Cloud is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
- The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.
Tableau Mobile
Operating systems
We recommend running the latest iOS and Android OS versions. These are the minimum OS requirements we support.
- iOS 15 or later
- Android 8 or later
Tableau environment
- An account on either Tableau Server 10.5 or later or on Tableau Cloud.
Internationalisation
- Tableau Mobile is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
- The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.
Tableau Reader
Data sources
- Tableau Desktop packaged workbook
File interaction
- View, filter, sort, export, print and paging
Operating systems
Windows
- Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 (x64), Windows 11
- 2 GB memory
- 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
- CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
Mac
- macOS Catalina 10.15, macOS Big Sur 11.4+, macOS Monterey 12.6+ (for Tableau 2022.3+) and macOS Ventura (for Tableau 2022.3+)
- Intel processors
- Apple Silicon processors (using Rosetta)
- 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
Internationalisation
- Tableau Reader is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
- The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.
Tableau Public
Operating systems
Windows
- Microsoft Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 (x64), Windows 11
- 2 GB memory
- 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
- CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets
Mac
- macOS Catalina 10.15, macOS Big Sur 11.4+, macOS Monterey 12.6+ (for Tableau 2022.3+) and macOS Ventura (for Tableau 2022.3+)
- Intel processors
- Apple Silicon processors (using Rosetta)
- 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
Virtual environments
- Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels, VMware, Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2.
- All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements. CPUs must support SSE4.2 and POPCNT instruction sets so any Processor Compatibility mode must be disabled.
Data sources
Connect to these data sources with Tableau Desktop Public Edition.
- Google Sheets
- JSON files
- Microsoft Excel 2007 or later
- OData
- Spatial files (ESRI shapefiles, KML, GeoJSON and MapInfo file types)
- Statistical Files; SAS (*.sas7bdat), SPSS (*.sav), and R (*.rdata, *.rda)
- Text files – comma separated value (.csv) files
- Tons of web data with the web data connector
Web browsers
- Chrome on Windows, Mac and Android
- Microsoft Edge on Windows
- Mozilla Firefox & Firefox ESR on Windows and Mac
- Apple Safari on Mac and iOS
Internationalisation
- Tableau Public is Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.
- The user interface and supporting documentation are in English (US), English (UK), French (France), French (Canada), German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Thai.
Tableau Bridge
Tableau Bridge technical specifications can be found here.