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Access Control

Learn how to manage user permissions and access to data assets in Atlan for security and compliance.

Admin export

Export administrative data into Excel — users, groups, personas, purposes, and policies for backup, audits, and offline access model analysis.

AI Governance

Establish robust AI governance frameworks that maintain compliance, mitigate risks, and drive trust through visibility, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement

AI Policy

Configure AI asset access in personas — control who can view, edit, or manage AI models, model versions, applications, and governance properties.

Alation migration assistant

Migrate glossary terms, tags, and metadata from Alation to Atlan—configure asset mapping, image handling, and custom metadata preservation.

Asset - term link

Automatically link glossary terms to matching assets — map terms by name patterns, asset types, and custom filters.

Asset Import for glossaries

Bulk import glossary terms and assets from CSV files — configure term hierarchy, relationships, and business metadata.

Asset Import for tags

Bulk import tag definitions into Atlan from a CSV file. Reference for workflow configuration, CSV format, tag properties, and asset-storage options.

Automate term–asset links

Use the Asset-term link app to automatically create and manage links between glossary terms and matching assets based on names and filters.

Business Graph

Learn how to create and maintain a centralized business glossary in Atlan to standardize terminology and definitions across your organization.

Compute and cost tracking

Understand how Data Quality Studio uses compute resources, how costs are calculated, and practical ways to track and optimize spend for Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery.

Context Agents Studio

Automate metadata enrichment at scale using AI-powered context agents that generate descriptions, READMEs, and SQL intelligence across your most important data assets.

Contracts

Learn how to manage data contracts and agreements in Atlan to ensure data quality and compliance.

Create policies with Metadata Policy Helper

Use the Metadata Policy Helper app to create metadata policies in personas using advanced asset selection patterns. Setup requires the app access and connection admin rights.

Credit usage

Understand how credits are consumed by context agents in Context Agents Studio and how to track usage in the Reporting section.

Custom Metadata

Learn how to create and manage custom metadata attributes in Atlan to extend your data catalog with organization-specific information.

Custom Metadata Extender

Expand existing custom metadata definitions to include new connections or glossaries added after initial creation. Reference for workflow configuration and scope-extension rules.

Custom metadata properties

Complete reference for custom metadata property configuration, including all field types, settings, and asset targeting options.

Data Products

Create and manage data products to organize and govern your data assets by domain.

Data Quality Studio

Monitor and maintain data quality across your data sources with automated quality checks, alerts, and governance workflows

Domain-assets linking

Link AWS SageMaker Unified Studio assets to Atlan Data Domains for unified governance.

Domains

Learn how to organize and manage domains in Atlan to structure your data assets in a logical and business-aligned way.

Extraction pipeline

Understand how context agents process knowledge files to extract business rules, create glossary terms, and generate skill files

GLOSSARY_DETAILS table

Reference documentation for the GLOSSARY_DETAILS table containing glossary, category, and term details

Govern catalog quality

Keep metadata current, enrich quality alerts with lineage context, propagate PII tags through lineage, and score assets for AI readiness using Atlan MCP.

Knowledge Folders

Build a golden dataset of unstructured business content in Atlan—SOPs, policies, and compliance rules—as governed, discoverable assets that context agents use for enrichment and skill generation

Lineage analysis

Use Lakehouse to run advanced lineage analysis across systems and connectors.

Lineage full export

Export complete lineage information from your metadata lakehouse for reuse across impact, dashboard, and root cause analysis.

Metadata enrichment

Answers to common questions about Context Agents Studio—covering enrichment behavior, collections, agent support, processing time, and AI credit usage.

Metadata export

Use Lakehouse to export rich metadata for AI applications, data marketplaces, and syncing context back to source systems.

Metadata Policy

Configure metadata access in personas — control who can view, edit, or restrict metadata, tags, terms, and governance properties.

Metadata Policy Helper

Configure metadata policies at scale using policy templates — automate permission assignment across assets, taxonomies, and custom metadata.

Priority Propagator

Propagate tags or custom metadata from child assets to parent assets using configurable priority rules. Reference for workflow configuration, priority-rule syntax, and transformation settings.

Report on governance

Monitor governance metrics in the reporting center dashboard. Track query access for personas and purposes, view tag propagation across assets, and manage governance requests from a centralized view.

Requests

Request and manage changes to assets that you don't have direct edit access to.

Set up BigQuery

Configure BigQuery to enable data quality monitoring through Atlan.

Set up Databricks

Configure Databricks to enable data quality monitoring through Atlan.

Set up Snowflake

Configure Snowflake to enable data quality monitoring through Atlan.

Source owner manager

Automatically populate asset owners in Atlan using source-system metadata like Snowflake last_ddl_by and Tableau source_owner. Reference for workflow configuration and owner-mapping rules.

Stewardship

Learn how to implement data stewardship in Atlan through automated workflows, policies, and task management.

Summarize metadata

Use the reporting center to track asset enrichment, monitor metadata updates, and review governance metrics. Access dashboards for asset metrics, glossaries, governance, queries, automations, and usage and cost tracking.

Sync Lake Formation tags to custom metadata

Sync AWS Lake Formation tags to Atlan custom metadata to maintain governance alignment. Reference for workflow configuration, tag mapping, and input-file format specifications.

Tags

Learn how to use tags in Atlan to categorize and organize your data assets for improved discoverability and governance.

Understand collections

Understand the collections available in Context Agents Studio—curated groups of data assets automatically surfaced from usage signals to help you prioritize metadata enrichment.

Understand context agents

Learn about the AI-powered context agents available in Context Agents Studio—specialized agents that generate descriptions, READMEs, and SQL intelligence.

Use AI-suggested rules

Let Atlan suggest data quality rules automatically based on your asset's metadata structure, and apply them in a few clicks.

User offboarding

Automatically downgrade offboarded users to Guest role — configure workflows for secure access revocation when users leave.

User Role Import

Import user roles from external sources into Atlan — automate role assignment based on user attributes and systems of record.

User Role Sync

Complete configuration reference for the User Role Sync app properties and settings.

Users and groups

Learn how to manage users and groups in Atlan to control access and organize your data team.

What you can do with Atlan MCP

Atlan MCP use cases across chat-based AI tools (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini), automation platforms (Python, n8n, LangChain), and end-to-end workflows for metadata enrichment, governance, data engineering, asset lifecycle, and catalog adoption.

What's Data Quality Studio

Understand Atlan's Data Quality Studio and how it enables business and data teams to collaborate on defining, monitoring, and enforcing data quality expectations