Fivetran Connector Failures After Upgrades

Fivetran ingestion sources that were previously working begin failing after a DataHub version upgrade, preventing metadata about Fivetran pipelines and data transformations from being ingested.

Note: For DataHub Cloud customers, infrastructure-level changes are managed by DataHub Support.

1. Verify Fivetran connector compatibility:

   • Check DataHub release notes for Fivetran connector changes
   • Fivetran connector may require recipe format updates after DataHub upgrades
   • Review breaking changes in the version you upgraded to

2. Update Fivetran recipe configuration:

source:
  type: fivetran
  config:
    fivetran_api_key: "${FIVETRAN_API_KEY}"
    fivetran_api_secret: "${FIVETRAN_API_SECRET}"
    # May need to add after upgrade:
    destination_platform: "snowflake"  # or your target platform
    destination_platform_instance: "prod"

3. Check Fivetran API permissions:

   • Ensure API key still has necessary permissions
   • Verify API key hasn't expired
   • Test Fivetran API access using curl or Postman

4. Contact support for cloud customers:

   • Provide before/after DataHub versions
   • Share ingestion error logs
   • Support can validate connector compatibility and configuration

Test configurations in a development environment before applying to production. Always backup configurations before making changes.

• DataHub Documentation
• Fivetran Source

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