🎉 What's new

Introducing preferences to control the visibility of asset metadata on your assets in Atlan. This allows you to customize the metadata shown to specific user personas, thus making the experience more contextual to what the user is interested in.

✨ Let's dig deeper

When you open any persona today, you can head over to the "Preferences" tab in  the persona. You will see a new "Asset metadata" section on the preferences.

This section allows you to customize visibility from the following metadata-

• Certificate
• Description
• Domains
• Linked Policies
• Owners
• Readme
• Tags
• Terms

Note- This impacts the assets page and the glossary (if persona switcher is turned on in labs for the glossary). This does NOT impact "all assets" experience i.e. if "all assets" is turned on in labs and is chosen on the persona selector, then the specific preferences for any persona will NOT be enforced.

👏 Give it a shot

Start customizing your users' metadata viewing experience today with asset metadata preferences. And while you try this, let us know what you think!

🚀 What’s New

Cyclic lineage can be tricky, but we've got you covered! You can now view both downstream and upstream dependencies in cyclic relationships. This gives you full visibility into end-to-end lineage, ensuring better understanding.

🚀 WHAT’S NEW

You can now see full asset names in the lineage graph! Previously, long names were trimmed with "...", but we’ve improved this for better visibility. Browsing graphs is now easier, but also, exporting a graph & sharing it for collaboration would be possible after this release.

🚀 What’s New

We’ve made it easier to see if an asset has upstream or downstream dependencies at a glance. In the Lineage tab on Atlan’s sidebar, assets with long dependency lists now show two options: "Load Upstream" and "Load Downstream". Selecting one retrieves more dependencies and updates the relevant tabs with the latest information.

Note: The number of displayed dependencies is based on a paginated request. To view all dependencies, keep clicking "Load More".

🎉 What’s new

Atlan automatically retrieves and enriches Airflow DAGs with descriptions, source owners, and tags—if included in the OpenLineage event. This ensures your metadata stays up to date with source DAGs, helping you better govern, utilize, and understand your data estate.

Learn more:

• What Atlan Crawls from Apache Airflow
• Troubleshooting Airflow Connectivity

🎉 What’s new

Product lineage just got a 10x upgrade! Product lineage will now be generated even if the data products belong to different domains or have been modified after they are created or even archived. This release includes other improvements as well, making the depiction of dependencies between your data products automated and powerful.

✨ Let’s dig deeper

First, let's briefly revisit how product lineage works. If asset A is an output port in a data product A and a regular asset (not marked as an output port) is in data product B, then product lineage will be generated between data products A and B.

Data product lineage is now updated in the following conditions:

• Data products belong to the same or different domains.
• The asset selection in a data product is modified forming new links via output ports.
• Assets are marked as output ports OR previous output ports are unmarked.
• Data products are archived, thus removing them from product lineage.
• A data products asset list is updated when new assets satisfy the filter conditions (this is for data products created using filter rules).

Product lineage is now generated in an async manner. This means there is a time gap from the last action that can update lineage (like marking an asset as an output port) to the changes being reflected in the lineage. This time gap is around 30 minutes to an hour. Most importantly, product lineage will not be generated when any participating product has more than 30,000 assets.

Any past product lineage links that were not present due to products being in different domains will now fully reflect the updated lineage, and without requiring any action from you.

👏 Give it a shot

Visit your favorite data product today and explore a more powerful product lineage experience! Create new data products to build out and experience the new product lineage. If you do not have data products enabled, you can head over to Labs (as an admin user) and turn on the products module!

Learn more: What is business lineage?

And while you try it out, let us know what you think!

🎉 What’s new

The Atlan Secure Agent is a lightweight application that is deployed within an enterprise and facilitates metadata extraction. The Secure Agent acts as a gateway and connects to source systems and extracts metadata. This architecture avoids inbound connectivity to these systems as well as ensures secrets are managed internally. 

✨ Let’s dig deeper

The Secure Agent is designed for secure, scalable, and efficient metadata extraction.

Currently supported connectors

• Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Salesforce
• More connectors getting supported soon!

Security-first architecture

• Runs entirely within the organization's infrastructure, preventing secrets from leaving its boundary.
• Uses outbound, encrypted communication to interact with Atlan SaaS.
• Supports logging and monitoring and integrates with external monitoring systems for auditing and compliance.

Scalable metadata extraction

• A single deployment of the Agent can connect to multiple source systems.
• Supports multiple concurrent metadata extraction jobs.

Flexible deployment

• Deploys on cloud-based Kubernetes environments (such as Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE) as well as on-premises clusters.
• Scales dynamically based on workload demands.

Automated operations

• Continuously monitors system health and sends heartbeats to Atlan.
• Captures and uploads execution logs for troubleshooting and auditing.

👏 Give it a shot

Switch on the Labs toggle to enable Agent functionality on the tenant.

Go through the Agent installation and configuration docs and setup a workflow in Agent execution mode

Feel free to reach out to your Atlan representative to know more!

🎉 What’s new

Atlan now supports efficient handling of sharded tables in BigQuery, improving crawler performance and simplifying metadata and lineage views.

✨ Let’s dig deeper

You can now manage BigQuery sharded tables with ease:

• 🚀 Faster workflows – Avoid ingesting thousands of shard tables.
• 🧠 Clearer lineage – View one table instead of many.
• 🔍 Easier filtering – Use the new “Is Sharded” filter to find consolidated tables.

👏 Give it a shot

Start exploring sharded table consolidation today and let us know your feedback!
Refer to the documentation for more details.

🎉 What’s new

Atlan now enables cataloging of Entity–Relationship (ER) models, helping teams bridge the gap between business and technical users. With ER model metadata in Atlan, organizations can enhance collaboration, streamline change management, and reinforce data governance.

✨ Let’s dig deeper

Ingest ER models with ease
You can now bring your ER models into Atlan using an Excel template:

• Data model ingestion – Use Atlan’s custom package to ingest ER models via an Excel template.

Unlock new capabilities with ER models

• Foster collaboration – Business and technical users can now share a unified view of data relationships across systems, breaking down silos.
• Simplify impact analysis – Visualizing entity relationships helps assess the downstream impact of technical changes with confidence.
• Strengthen governance – Define access controls, retention policies, and governance rules based on entity relationships, ensuring trust and accountability.

Visualize and map your data

• Entity Diagrams – Navigate entities, attributes, and relationships visually to simplify understanding and communication.
• Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Models – Map ER models across different abstraction levels to align business concepts with technical implementation.
• Link ER Entities to crawled assets – Link entities to actual data assets in Atlan (e.g., an ‘Order’ table in Snowflake).

👏 Give it a shot

Reach out to your CSM to enable the ER model ingestion package. Upload ER assets via Excel and let us know what you think! Refer to these docs for more information.