Introduction
Basis (formerly Centro) is a programmatic advertising platform from Basis Technologies. The connector pulls daily delivery data from Basis through either a Snowflake data share or an Amazon S3 export, depending on how the Basis account is provisioned. Two report types are supported out of the box: a creative-level report and a line-item-level report. Basis is a schema-flexible source: the fields available in Adriel mirror the columns Basis includes in the share or export. The built-in fields on this page are provided for every generic source; the delivery fields you actually report on come from the columns in your Basis share or export. Reports are normalized and stored in a daily cache, so dashboards read from the cache rather than running live queries against Basis. To connect this data source, see How to connect Basis to Adriel.Data refresh strategy
Architecture data
Architecture covers the advertiser account and the campaigns, line items, and creatives discovered through the Snowflake share or S3 export. It refreshes alongside the report cache. New entities appear after the next scheduled refresh.Reports data
Reports include daily delivery data for advertisers, campaigns, line items, and creatives. This is a daily-cache connector, so dashboards read from cached daily performance rather than live queries against Basis.- Initial fetch. After connection, the last 180 days of daily data are retrieved.
- Refresh schedule. Once per day at 14:00 UTC, the latest 15 days of data are refreshed in place. Because each refresh re-fetches the trailing 15 days, late-arriving or restated conversions within that window are picked up without a manual reconnection.
Architecture levels
Advertiser → Campaign → Line item → CreativeDate range limits
There are no fixed date-range caps on queries. The cache retains rolling daily data per the schedule above, and queries are bounded only by the history Basis exposes through its data share or export.Metrics
How to read the columnsData type uses Adriel’s vocabulary — Number, Currency, Percentage, Ratio, Duration, Date, Text, URL, Array, Boolean. Basis delivers data through a Snowflake share or an Amazon S3 export rather than a reporting API, so its fields carry no platform API key; italic marks how Adriel sources each value — From Basis share/export for a delivery column mapped from the connected source, and Adriel-side for a built-in field Adriel adds to every source. Currency values are reported in the connected account’s configured currency.
General
Date Calculation
Basis-specific
These metrics exist only for Basis and aren’t part of any cross-connector category. Every group above is a standard category shared with other connectors.
Breakdowns
General
Date
Basis-specific
These breakdowns exist only for Basis and aren’t part of any cross-connector category. Every group above is a standard category shared with other connectors.
Limitations
- Free-format schema. The connector never adds, removes, or renames fields; the available metrics and breakdowns mirror the columns Basis includes in the share or export. Keeping column names and types consistent across exports is the account owner’s responsibility.
- Two separate report types. The creative-level and line-item-level reports are fetched and cached independently. Widgets that span both levels see them combined through the standard marketing hierarchy.
- No deleted-data exclusion. Once an element is deleted on the Basis side, its data is no longer provided.
- SDK-level credentials only. There is no HTTP API key or OAuth token. Snowflake JWT authentication and AWS S3 signing handle every request directly, so rotating credentials means editing the connection rather than refreshing a token.
- Amazon S3 export access required for accounts provisioned in S3 mode.
API references
Basis does not expose a public reporting API. Data is delivered through a Snowflake data share (queried with JWT key-pair authentication) or an Amazon S3 CSV export, so the relevant references are the underlying access surfaces:See also
- How to connect Basis to Adriel (paired how-to)
- The Trade Desk data reference — for another programmatic (DSP) source
