The following terms are referenced throughout this guide and are needed to understand the core concepts of the Squirro platform.
tenant
A tenant is a customer creating many users on the Squirro platform for its company or team.
API requests generally need the tenant identifier. The same method used to log in for the API access (OAuth login) also returns the tenant identifier.
user
A user is consuming information through the Squirro platform.
item
An item is a piece of information that is consumed through the Squirro platform.
project
A projects contains a collection of items.
source
A source processes and completes items and stores them in the Squirro platform.
subscription
A subscription sends new items from a source into a topic.
provider
A data provider gets items for sources from external systems.
user token
A user token is generated by the Squirro platform on behalf of a user. The token can be used for authentication.