🎉 What's new

Playbooks in Atlan now support hierarchical filtering for your assets! You can easily select a connection and then narrow down your asset selection to specific databases and schemas. This means you can create one playbook and update all assets within a given schema, database, or BI workspace at scale!

🎉 What's new

This one's for our Python developers — announcing the initial release of our Python SDK! The Python SDK allows you to integrate with and automate actions in Atlan using all the features you know and love in your favorite IDE — type-ahead coding support, debugging, dependency management, version control, and so on.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Our SDKs abstract the need for you to understand all the underlying details of our REST APIs — their payload formats, endpoints, the universe of possible fields, and so on.

Here are some cool things you can do:

• Write your metadata ingestion — for example, integrate a custom set of data quality metrics from a homegrown solution right into your metadata assets in Atlan.
• Code up a custom report combining complex search criteria and lineage navigation and filtering in just a few lines of code and a matter of minutes.
• Deploy an event-based integration that calculates new metrics or enforces the validity of a change any time metadata is changed in Atlan — whether by a user in the UI or through an out-of-the-box crawler or some other programmatic automation.

👏 Give it a shot

Get started with integrating and automating actions in Atlan with Python, available to include in your project today directly from PyPI!

Learn more here:

• Get started with the Python SDK
• Star the public GitHub repository
• Review useful code that already uses the Python SDK

🎉 What's new

We are excited to announce native support for Matillion! This empowers our users to catalog their Matillion assets in Atlan, including groups, projects, jobs, and components.

✨ Let's dig deeper

You can set up the Matillion connector to:

• Seamlessly discover and document your Matillion assets — groups, projects, jobs, and components.
• Streamline your workflows with Matillion-specific filters like job type, job path, version, and job schedule for quick asset discovery.
• View Matillion processes in the lineage graph for root cause and impact analyses.

Learn more about the known limitations of the Matillion connector.

👏 Give it a shot

Try out the new Matillion connector and let us know what you think! We are also actively working to enhance our Matillion integration, so stay tuned for more updates.

🎉 What's new

Drumroll, please! Atlan is expanding usage and popularity metrics to the BI universe — starting with Microsoft Power BI! With source popularity metrics now available in Atlan, Power BI users will be able to access their most and least frequently used BI assets with just a few clicks.

You can set up the Power BI miner to:

• Generate usage and popularity metrics — currently only available for Power BI reports and dashboards.
• Available metrics include the following:
  • Usage — number of views for an asset and number of users who viewed that asset
  • Recent users

Set up the Power BI miner today to supercharge your discovery of Power BI assets with usage and popularity metrics!

🎉 What's new

Custom metadata properties in Atlan now offer time precision!

While creating custom metadata properties, check out the following:

• The date type now captures both date and time values — day, month, year, hours, minutes, and seconds.
• You can optionally select the time while editing the date field.
• The default time will be 00:00:00 if none is selected, displaying only the date.

Time values for date type are automatically enabled. No additional configuration is required on your part for new or existing custom metadata properties.

Add more precision to your custom metadata in Atlan!

🎉 What's new

Teams users, this one's for you — Atlan now supports workflow alerts for Microsoft Teams! Monitor your workflows in Atlan directly from a Teams channel of your choice.

Here's what you can do:

• Configure your Microsoft Teams integration settings to receive workflow alerts from Atlan.
• Receive workflow alerts — directly delivered to your Teams channel!

🎉 What's new

Introducing the option to share your queries while saving them in Insights!

Did you just write the most insightful query in Atlan? Well, save it and let your team know! While you're saving the query, here are all the cool new things you can do now:

• Share your queries directly while saving them.
• Copy the link to your saved query or share directly on Slack or Microsoft Teams.
• Add or edit users from your query collection as you save your queries.

Share your saved queries with ease, and stay tuned for more upcoming enhancements!

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports native integration with Soda — the data quality platform! This new feature brings together the best of Soda data quality monitoring for Atlan users who use Soda Cloud. You can now catalog your Soda checks, their relationships to datasets, and results in Atlan for maximum visibility.

✨ Let's dig deeper

The Soda integration allows you to cover a variety of data quality use cases across your data estate. For example, you can now view multiple Soda check details while exploring a Snowflake table asset profile. Additionally, Soda check results can now be easily displayed in the lineage graph for datasets with downstream dashboards or analytics.

To get a better idea of what this looks like in action:

View Soda check results on the lineage graph for a sample Snowflake table with downstream dashboards.

View multiple Soda check details while exploring a sample Snowflake table asset profile.

Explore a Soda check asset profile in Atlan.

Filter by and discover Soda checks for your assets in Atlan.

Learn more about how to integrate Soda with Atlan:

• How to set up Soda
• How to crawl Soda
• What does Atlan crawl from Soda?

👏 Give it a shot

Atlan's new native connection to Soda is a game changer for data quality monitoring. Ready to bring Soda and Atlan together? Get started in 30 seconds by adding an Atlan workflow to your Soda instance! Stay tuned for upcoming enhancements and capabilities.

Please note that this feature will be a paid addition. Reach out to your customer success manager for more information.

🎉 What's new

Announcing some exciting updates for the Atlan dbt action in GitHub:

• Environment-based mapping — If you have set up different branches for your dbt environments, you can now map your branch name with the dbt environment name and Atlan will fetch downstream assets for that specific environment. Use the DBT_ENVIRONMENT_BRANCH_MAP input in the GitHub action config to map dbt environments to branches and keep everything in sync!
• Materialized asset details in comment header — You can now easily access a link to the materialized asset along with the environment and project name in the comment header to get the context you need for materialized assets.
• Ignore alias — You can also use the IGNORE_MODEL_ALIAS_MATCHING input in the Github action config to ignore matching model names through aliases. This will allow you to fetch the downstream impact of the dbt models based on the file name instead of the alias.

... and some bug fixes to boost your workflow:

• Detect new models — Previously, when a new model was added that was not yet present in Atlan, the dbt action used to break. Now you'll be notified if a new model has been added and view the downstream impact once the asset has been cataloged in Atlan.
• Limit the list of downstream assets to 100 — If you've got assets with extensive lineage, we've got your back! We've limited the list of downstream assets to 100, so you no longer need to worry about hitting the GitHub comment character rate limit.
  

To learn more, see How to add impact analysis in GitHub.

Get started with exploring the updates and happy dbt-ing! 🎉 

🎉 What's new

This one's for our Java developers — announcing the initial release of our Java SDK! The Java SDK allows you to integrate with and automate actions in Atlan using all the features you know and love in your favorite IDE — type-ahead coding support, debugging, dependency management, version control, and so on.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Our SDKs abstract the need for you to understand all the underlying details of our REST APIs — their payload formats, endpoints, the universe of possible fields, and so on.

Here are some cool things you can do:

• Write your own metadata ingestion — for example, reading an OpenAPI spec and creating the relevant API objects in Atlan.
• Code up a duplicate detection algorithm to identify tables that appear to be duplicates of each other, even when the names of those tables and the ordering of their columns might differ.
• Deploy an event-based integration that calculates new metrics or enforces the validity of a change any time metadata is changed in Atlan — whether by a user in the UI or through an out-of-the-box crawler or some other programmatic automation.

👏 Give it a shot

Get started integrating and automating actions in Atlan through Java, available to include in your project today directly from Maven Central!

Learn more here:

• Get started with the Java SDK
• Star the public GitHub repository
• Review useful code that already uses the Java SDK