Яндекс DataLens
Connect Yandex DataLens to the AI agent: collections, workbooks, dashboards, datasets and connections
Connect Yandex DataLens to the AI agent: collections, workbooks, dashboards, datasets and connections. The agent locates a report and shows what already exists.
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Integration scenarios
Navigating collections and workbooks
The agent walks through your organization's collections and workbooks and points you to the dashboard, dataset or source connection you need.
Report inventory
The agent lists dashboards, charts and datasets, spots duplicates of the same report and shows how the objects relate to each other.
Access and change audit
The agent shows permissions on objects, checks what a specific user can reach and pulls change history from any date you name.
Moving a workbook between collections
The agent exports a workbook, waits for the file to be ready and imports it into another collection in the same organization.
How to connect
Sign in with the account that has DataLens
Open datalens.ru and sign in with the Yandex account you use for dashboards. Pick the right organization in the switcher at the top: DataLens permissions are granted per organization, not per account.
Check that a DataLens instance exists
If the organization opens without DataLens, an administrator has to create it: datalens.ru/promo → “Get started in the cloud”. Activation requires the admin or owner role in the organization; a regular member cannot do it.
Grant the account an organization-level role
In “Service settings” → the “Users” tab invite the account with “Send invitation” and assign a role: datalens.visitor for access to the service, datalens.metaReader for reading entities and the Public API, datalens.admin for full access.
Open access to the collections and workbooks you need
An organization role alone does not expose content: on each collection and workbook assign datalens.collections.viewer and datalens.workbooks.viewer, otherwise the connections, datasets, charts and dashboards inside stay invisible.
What the agent does in the first 10 minutes
- Collects the list of the organization's collections and workbooks and shows where a given dashboard, dataset or connection lives
- Answers what is already built in DataLens without walking nested collections by hand or hunting duplicates of the same report
- Sends a scheduled summary of which workbooks and dashboards appeared or disappeared over the week
FAQ
How do I connect Yandex DataLens?
By signing in to your Yandex account with a code — no tokens to copy. DataLens grants permissions at the organization level, so the account needs a role there, plus viewer access on collections and workbooks, otherwise their contents stay invisible.
What does the agent see in DataLens?
The structure of your account: collections, workbooks, dashboards, charts, datasets and connections, how they relate, their permissions, change history, organization licenses and embed links.
Can the agent show the numbers from a dashboard?
No. The API returns dashboard configuration and dataset structure — fields, sources, settings — but not data rows. For the numbers themselves the agent goes to the source system, not to DataLens.
Does the agent write to DataLens?
Almost never: it reads objects, and the only changing operations available to it are exporting a workbook and importing it into a collection. It does not edit dashboards, charts or datasets.