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ServiceNow Reader

ServiceNow provides a cloud platform for digital workflows across IT, employee, and customer operations. Striim’s ServiceNow Reader connects to a ServiceNow instance and reads data from one or more tables, publishing WAEvents that you can process or deliver to supported Striim targets.

Feature summary

Feature

Supported?

Notes

Objects

   Standard Tables

✓

Specify one or more tables; wildcard % supported.

   Custom Tables

✓

Subject to the ServiceNow user’s ACL permissions.

Authentication

   OAuth

✓

Uses ServiceNow OAuth application (Client ID/Secret).

   Manual OAuth

✓

Uses access/refresh tokens for unattended integrations.

Security and Governance

   TLS 1.2

✓

All connections use TLS.

   Connection Profile

✓

Store and reuse credentials and endpoints.

Operations

   Initial Load

✓

Reads existing rows for selected tables.

   Pull-based Incremental Load

✓

Uses timestamp fields (for example, sys_updated_on) when available.

   Automated mode

✓

Runs initial then incremental in a single application.

   Delete capture

✓

Requires Capture Deletes set to True and ServiceNow auditing enabled.

Building Applications / Programmability

   Flow Designer

✓

Create and configure pipelines visually.

   Striim TQL

✓

Define readers and targets with TQL.

Schema Handling

   Initial Schema Creation

✓

When enabled, propagates table schema to supported targets.

   Output as WAEvents

✓

This reader publishes WAEvents by default.

   Schema Evolution

-

Runtime

   Resilience

✓

Configurable connection retries and timeouts.

   Recovery

✓

Supports recovery from failures.

   Metrics & Auditing

✓

Standard Striim monitoring available.