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LINEAGE view

The LINEAGE view contains information about asset and column-level lineage processes in Atlan.

Overview

The LINEAGE view provides a simplified, curated view of all lineage-related entities. This view includes Atlan-native process entities like Process, BIProcess, and ColumnProcess and external processes like DbtProcess and DbtColumnProcess.

For complete entity type definitions and properties, refer to the Atlan Developer documentation.

Columns

The LINEAGE view includes the following columns:

ColumnDescription
DIRECTIONThe flow of the lineage traversal: UPSTREAM (sources) or DOWNSTREAM (targets)
START_GUIDThe globally-unique identifier of the asset for which lineage is being calculated
START_NAMEThe name of the starting asset
START_TYPEThe asset type of the starting asset
RELATED_GUIDThe globally-unique identifier of the asset found during traversal
RELATED_NAMEThe name of the related asset
RELATED_TYPEThe asset type of the related asset
CONNECTING_GUIDThe intermediate GUID that links the current hop to the previous asset in the chain
LEVELThe distance (number of hops) between the starting asset and the related asset

For detailed information about these properties, refer to the Atlan metamodel reference.

See also