25 docs tagged with "how-to"

Create a context repository, generate an initial semantic model from your catalog, and refine definitions, joins, and synonyms until the model reflects how the business thinks.

Connect Amazon Athena to Atlan's Lakehouse using AWS Glue Catalog Federation. Setup registers Atlan's Iceberg REST Catalog as a federated data source in Lake Formation, making Lakehouse tables available to Athena and other AWS query engines.

Connect BigQuery to Atlan's Lakehouse to query catalog metadata from BigQuery SQL. Setup requires a GCP Cloud Resource connection, a service account grant from Atlan Support, and a Python script that creates the external tables.

Connect Databricks to Atlan's Lakehouse using foreign Iceberg tables in Unity Catalog to query metadata. Setup creates storage credentials and an external location pointing to Atlan's Lakehouse data in your cloud storage.

Connect PySpark to Atlan's Lakehouse through the Iceberg REST catalog with Polaris credential vending. Credential vending automatically issues short-lived cloud storage credentials for each request without requiring hardcoded storage access keys.

Get your Lakehouse connection details and connect your preferred Iceberg REST–compatible client

Connect Snowflake to Atlan's Lakehouse using Snowflake's catalog-linked database feature to query metadata in standard SQL. Setup creates a catalog integration that links Atlan's Iceberg REST Catalog to Snowflake.

Build the question set that simulations use, using generated questions, Insights collections, or manual question and query pairs.

Learn how to deploy the Atlan browser extension across your organization using managed browsers and MDM software on macOS and Windows.

Deploy a context repository to Databricks Genie: create Metric Views and a Genie Space, refine, certify, and ship to production.

Certify and deploy a context repository to Snowflake Cortex Analyst, then monitor live query traces in the Observe tab.

Enable ML-based anomaly detection on a Snowflake table to automatically monitor row count and freshness without manual thresholds.

Learn how to enable embedded Atlan metadata in Tableau dashboards for seamless data context and governance.

Step-by-step guide to triggering AI-powered metadata enrichment using context agents in Context Agents Studio.

Export a filtered set of certified assets from Atlan as a CSV file and deliver it directly to email recipients. The Asset export (advanced) app lets you share governance summaries and asset inventories with stakeholders who don't have direct Atlan access.

Get your Lakehouse connection details from Atlan and configure any Iceberg REST–compatible client to start querying your metadata. Setup requires credentials from the Lakehouse Marketplace view in Atlan.

Apply the Unity Catalog grants and workspace permissions that Context Engineering Studio needs before you can deploy to Databricks Genie.

Apply the Snowflake grants that Context Engineering Studio needs before you can deploy to Snowflake Cortex Analyst.

Bulk import or update asset metadata in Atlan using a CSV file stored in Amazon S3. The Asset Import app supports direct CSV import from S3 buckets, enabling you to create or update connections, databases, schemas, tables, and columns in one workflow.

Step-by-step guide to importing glossary terms, categories, and glossaries into Atlan using a local CSV file.

Learn how to install and configure the Atlan browser extension in Chrome or Edge, connect it to your Atlan workspace, and set up custom domains for your data tools.

Use Chat & build and direct YAML editing to shape your semantic model until it reflects how your business thinks.

Run question sets on your semantic model to see where it answers well, where it misses, and what to fix next.

Create helper lineage tables in your warehouse for advanced lineage queries that include direction (upstream/downstream), hop level, and asset names. These tables work with Lakehouse's native LINEAGE_ADJACENCY_LIST table.

Learn how to use the Atlan browser extension to access metadata in-flow inside your data tools, search Atlan from any webpage, and link web pages as resources to assets.