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Time Series Database:Connect Quick BI to TSDB

Last Updated:May 21, 2026

Quick BI is a lightweight, cloud-based business intelligence (BI) service for efficient big data analytics and visualization. By connecting to a data source and creating a dataset, you can perform real-time analysis and queries. With features like spreadsheets and dashboards, you can use a drag-and-drop interface to visualize your data. Once connected, you can start analyzing and presenting your data in Quick BI.

Prerequisites

Create an Alibaba Cloud Time Series Database instance.

Background information

To prevent access failures, add the public IP address ranges of Quick BI to the allowlist of your data source. For more information, see Configure a network allowlist.

Procedure

  1. Create and test a data source connection.

    1. Log on to the Quick BI console. For more information, see Quick BI console.

    2. Add a data source. In the top navigation bar, click Workspaces. In the left-side navigation pane, click Data Sources, and then click Create Data Source in the upper-right corner. In the Add Data Source dialog box, select the Cloud Databases tab, and then click TSDB.

    3. In the Add TSDB Data Source dialog box, configure the following settings.

      Parameter

      Description

      Display name

      The display name for the data source.

      TSQL endpoint and port

      The public address and public port of the TSDB database.

      AccessKey ID and AccessKey Secret

      The credentials for accessing the TSDB instance.

    4. Click Connection Test to verify the connection.

    5. After the connection test succeeds, click OK to add the data source.

      The new data source appears in the data source list.

Next steps

After creating a data source, you can create a dataset to analyze your data.