# RDA - User Guide

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You can find 'How to use RDA notebooks' as part of your AIOps Studio home.
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Please note that both tags and bots are interchangeably used. 
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### Built-in RDA functions

The following are the most commonly used built-in functions

| Function (Python)                | Terminal | Description                                                               |
| -------------------------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| bots()                           | bots     | View / Search list of bots from all sources                               |
| plugins()                        | plugins  | View / Search list of installed plugins.                                  |
| api\_models()                    |          | View / Search API Models for the bots that start with '@' (API Endpoints) |
| toolkit()                        |          | a tabbed group of reports with Bots, API Models, Plugins, and Datasets    |
| check\_connectivity()            |          | Check connectivity to data sources and verify credentials if applicable   |
| pexec(str)                       |          | Execute pipeline and return the resulting dataframe.                      |
| viz(df)                          |          | Visualize the dataframe                                                   |
| add\_dataset(data or file, name) |          | Add dataframe, file or URL as dataset in the RDA dataset repository       |
| get\_dataset(name)               |          | Get previously saved dataset                                              |
| list\_datasets()                 |          | Show list of all saved datasets                                           |
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### Viewing Datasources and Tags <a href="#id-2.-viewing-datasources-and-tags" id="id-2.-viewing-datasources-and-tags"></a>

### plugins()

View / Search all installed RDA extensions.

### check\_connectivity() <a href="#check_connectivity" id="check_connectivity"></a>

Verify network access to all configured datasources.  If their credentials are used, verify the credentials also. This function also takes an optional argument which can be a datasource name (ex: `"snow"`)

### tags() <a href="#tags" id="tags"></a>

View / Search all datasource,  datasink, and control bots

### api\_models() <a href="#api_models" id="api_models"></a>

This function displays a list of all bots that are configured as API Endpoints. These bots are typically prefixed with an @ symbol. For each selected bot, this will display list parameters that should be provided as a combination of *and* (*&*) statements.

### toolkit() <a href="#toolkit" id="toolkit"></a>

This function will display Bots, Plugins, API Models and Datasets

### list\_datasets()

This method is identical to bot **@dm:recall** *name = "dataset-name"*


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