The Confluence connector pulls in all pages and comments from the specified spaces/pages once at the beginning and then pulls updates every 10 minutes.

Setting up

Authorization

1

Get access token

Follow the guide described here to get an access token.

Indexing

1

Navigate to connector

Navigate to the Admin Panel and select the Confluence Connector
2

Provide credentials

For your credentials, provide the Access Token and the Username (typically an email) it belongs to:
3

Configure Confluence setup

For Confluence setup, you must provide:
  • Wiki Base URL: The base URL of your Confluence instance (e.g., https://your-domain.atlassian.net/wiki)
  • Whether you’re using Confluence Cloud or Datacenter: Check the Is Cloud box if you are using a Confluence Cloud instance, uncheck for Confluence Server/Data Center
4

Choose indexing scope

Then choose how you’d like this connector to index your Confluence instance:
  • Everything:
  • If you select this option, the connector will index everything the provided credentials have access to.
  • Space:
  • Input the key of the space you’d like to index (e.g., KB)
  • Page:
  • Page ID: Specific page ID to index - leave empty to index the entire space (e.g., 131368 for a specific page)
  • Index Recursively: Check this box to index the specified page AND all of its children.
  • CQL Query:
  • If you’d like finer control over what is indexed, you can use a CQL query. The query must contain ‘type=page’ and any lastmodified filters will be overwritten. See the CQL documentation for more information.
5

Connect

Click the Connect button! All the specified spaces/pages and related comments will now be pulled into Onyx every 10 minutes.

Permission Syncing

If you are an enterprise customer connecting to Confluence Server/Data Center and you would like to enable permission syncing, the provided credentials must be from an admin user.