Airbyte

Connect with Airbyte to consolidate data in data warehouses, lakes, and databases.

Overview

With the Airbyte integration you can load your Linear data into any data warehouse, lakes or databases in minutes. Create custom analytics and dashboards for your company and update it on any schedule through Airbyte.

Configure

Hosting

We support Airbyte Open Source environments, not Airbyte Cloud.

Steps

On the Linear Enterprise plan, go to Settings to enable the Airbyte integration and copy the one time key for safe keeping as you’ll need it later.

Set up Airbyte locally

Next you’ll need to set up Airbyte locally. To do this first install Docker Desktop and launch it.

Clone the Airbyte repo and run Docker using the following command in Terminal:

Now you can open Airbyte in your browser at http://localhost:8000.

Set up Linear Source

Now that Airbyte is running locally, let's set up the custom Linear source:

• In the Airbyte dashboard, click "Settings" on the bottom left.
• Click "Sources" on the left sidebar.
• Click the "New connector" button > enter the following:
  - Connector display name: Linear
  - Docker repository name: gcr.io/linear-public-registry/linear-airbyte-source
  - Docker image tag: latest
  - Connector Documentation URL: https://github.com/linear/linear-airbyte-source/blob/main/readme.md
  

Connect your destination

With the connection complete, you can now choose your destination.

• Click "Connections" in the sidebar and the "New connection" button.
• In the "Source type" box search for "Linear".
• You can give a custom name to your source or leave it as Linear.
• Paste the API key you generated in the Linear integration page for Airbyte and click "Set up source".
• On the next page, you can select an existing destination or set up your destination service, their instructions will be provided there if you have not yet created a destination with them before.
• Save the connection.

Choose your sync frequency

Next, you need to choose how often you want to sync your Linear data to this destination:

• Click on Connections and your chosen Connection in the list.
• Click on the "Replication" tab and choose your Replication frequency.
• Select the data you want to sync. You should see a list of table names. You can select all or choose which ones to sync individually.
• Choose what type of sync mode you'd like to use for each source table. Full Refresh and Append are the options you can choose from. Incremental is not supported at this time. Linear data can sync every 12 hours, it cannot sync sooner than this.
• Click "Save changes".

Everything is now configured to extract, transform, load (ETL) your Linear data into Airbyte and sync it to the selected destination on the schedule you chose.

Remove connection

You can disable any incremental or full syncs by going to the Connection settings page and clicking Delete this connection.

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