
## What does Atlan crawl from Metabase?

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/apps/connectors/business-intelligence/metabase/references/what-does-atlan-crawl-from-metabase

> During a Metabase crawl, Atlan extracts metadata for Collections, Dashboards, and Questions. Reference tables map each Metabase property to its Atlan asset.

Atlan extracts metadata for Collections, Dashboards, and Questions from Metabase and maps each property to its internal asset model. The tables below list which Metabase properties are read and how they appear on the corresponding Atlan asset.

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Currently Atlan only represents the assets marked with 🔀 in lineage.

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## Collections

Atlan maps collections from Metabase to its `MetabaseCollection` asset type.

| Source property | Atlan property |
| --- | --- |
| `name` | `name` |
| `slug` | `metabaseSlug` |
| `color` | `metabaseColor` |
| `namespace` | `metabaseNamespace` |
| `personal_owner_id` | `metabaseIsPersonalCollection` |

## Dashboards 🔀

Atlan maps dashboards from Metabase to its `MetabaseDashboard` asset type.

| Source property | Atlan property |
| --- | --- |
| `name` | `name` |
| `collection` | `metabaseCollectionName` |
| `created_at` | `sourceCreatedAt` |
| `updated_at` | `sourceUpdatedAt` |
| `last-edit-info` | `sourceUpdatedBy` |
| `ordered_cards` | `metabaseQuestionCount` |
| collection (`Official`) | `certificateStatus (VERIFIED)` |

## Questions 🔀

Atlan maps questions from Metabase to its `MetabaseQuestion` asset type.

| Source property | Atlan property |
| --- | --- |
| `name` | `name` |
| `collection` | `metabaseCollectionName` |
| `created_at` | `sourceCreatedAt` |
| `updated_at` | `sourceUpdatedAt` |
| `last-edit-info` | `sourceUpdatedBy` |
| `ordered_cards` | `metabaseDashboardCount` |
| `query_type` | `metabaseQueryType` |
| `query` | `metabaseQuery` |
| collection (`Official`) | `certificateStatus (VERIFIED)` |
| invalid non-native queries | `certificateStatus (DEPRECATED)` |

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