✦TL;DR

Learn how to crawl Metabase assets and publish them to Atlan for discovery.

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Metabase assets app

The Metabase assets app crawls Metabase collections, dashboards, and questions and publishes them to Atlan. Build it with the AtlanMetabase builder.

Creating an app creates a new connection

Each create mints a new connection and new assets. To re-crawl, re-run the existing workflow (see Re-run an existing app).

Basic authentication

Python

Metabase crawling with basic auth

from pyatlan.client.atlan import AtlanClient
from pyatlan.model.apps import AtlanMetabase

client = AtlanClient()

response = (
    AtlanMetabase(client)
    .basic( # (1)
        username="atlan_user", # (2)
        password="••••••", # (3)
        host="metabase.example.com", # (4)
    )
    .connection(
        name="production-metabase",
        admin_roles=[client.role_cache.get_id_for_name("$admin")],
    )
    .include_collections({"collection-id-1": {}}) # (5)
    .run(name="metabase-prod")
)
print(response.slug, response.run_id)

1. Step 1—Credential. Username/password auth; the secret is vaulted.
2. Required. Username.
3. Required. Password.
4. Optional. Host. The port (port=) is optional.
5. Step 3—Metadata. Collections to crawl ({collection_id: {}}). Omit to crawl all collections.

Configuration options

All metadata options are optional:

Python

Metabase metadata configuration

(
    AtlanMetabase(client)
    .basic(username="atlan_user", password="••••••", host="metabase.example.com")
    .connection(name="production-metabase", admin_roles=[...])
    .include_collections({"collection-id-1": {}}) # (1)
    .exclude_collections({"collection-id-2": {}}) # (2)
    .run(name="metabase-prod")
)

1. Collections to include ({collection_id: {}}).
2. Collections to exclude.