Fides Documentation – Ethyca

Creating Datasets in the UI

Generate from a database connection Permalink for this section

Fides can generate datasets by connecting to datastores and interpreting the data structure:

  1. Navigate to Manage datasets.
  2. Click Create new dataset.
  3. Click Connect to a database.
  4. Paste the database connection string into the Database URL field.
  5. Click Generate dataset.

For help building the database connection string, please see the SQLAlchemy documentation (opens in a new tab).

PostgreSQL example: postgresql://<user>:<password>@<hostname>:<port>/<database>

Upload a Dataset YAML Permalink for this section

You can manually add a dataset by uploading a valid YAML dataset definition in the dataset editor from the Fides Admin UI.
To add a new dataset using the Dataset Editor:

  1. Navigate to Manage datasets.
  2. Click + Add dataset.
  3. Click Upload a Dataset YAML.
  4. Enter the dataset configuration into the editor.
  5. Click Create dataset.

Once completed, your new dataset will be displayed in Fides identified by the name and fides_key specified in your dataset YAML.

[Overview](/content/docs/integrations/guides/datasets/overview "Overview"/index.html) [Creating Datasets via CLI](/content/docs/integrations/guides/datasets/generate-datasets-cli "Creating Datasets via CLI"/index.html)