🎉 What's new

We've upgraded Atlan's search algorithm to improve the relevance and ranking of asset search results and supercharge your discovery experience!

Atlan's search algorithm takes into account asset names, descriptions, linked terms, certification status, starred count, and more to boost relevant assets in the search results. To learn more about how to ensure a high-quality search experience, see How to search and discover assets.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Here are some cool things to look out for:

• If the keyword you're searching for is a glossary term linked to assets or present in asset descriptions, such assets will be boosted in search results.
• Whether your search query is incomplete or misspelled, Atlan's powerful search can still help you discover exactly what you need.
• When you enter two or more keywords, Atlan will find assets with asset names that partially match the keywords or a combination of them to narrow down the search results.
• Atlan's revamped search experience takes into account multiple factors, along with search relevance, to sort results — certification status, popularity, starred count, and more.

👏 Give it a shot

Why wait until the new year to do something new? Try out Atlan's new and improved search right now! Search improvements are turned on by default, but Atlan admins can turn them off from Labs in the admin center — simply toggle off Search relevance improvements.

Join Atlan in our quest to power your search and discovery experience to the next level, and let us know what you think!

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports adding tag values for Snowflake tags! You can assign any value to a Snowflake tag in Atlan, and if reverse sync is enabled, the tag attachment will be synced back to source. You can also filter your Snowflake assets in Atlan based on tag values.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Atlan supports the following for imported Snowflake tags:

• Allowed values — you can select a value from a list of predefined values imported from Snowflake. For example, a PII Snowflake tag may have Name, Email, and Phone Number as allowed values that have been defined at source to ensure consistency of usage across the organization. Allowed values provide you with a clear set of options, reducing the possibility of any errors in tagging.
• Tag values — enter any value in Atlan while attaching or editing imported Snowflake tags on an asset. For example, if no values have been defined at source for the  PII Snowflake tag, you will be able to add custom values like Confidential, Highly Confidential, or Internal in Atlan to indicate data sensitivity. This provides flexibility for dynamic categorizations without predefined constraints.

👏 Give it a shot

Get started with managing your Snowflake tags in Atlan:

🎉 What's new

Atlan now supports native integration with Amazon DynamoDB — a NoSQL data source! This empowers our users to catalog and enrich their Amazon DynamoDB assets in Atlan, including tables, global secondary indexes, and local secondary indexes.

✨ Let's dig deeper

You can set up the Amazon DynamoDB connector to:

• Seamlessly discover and document your Amazon DynamoDB assets — tables, global secondary indexes, and local secondary indexes.
• Learn more about the schema of Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes.
• View lineage between Amazon DynamoDB as a source to supported data warehouses as destinations, as enriched by Fivetran — column-level lineage is currently unavailable.
• Atlan currently only supports integration with Amazon DynamoDB through IAM user authentication.

👏 Give it a shot

Ready to integrate Amazon DynamoDB with Atlan? Get started today:

• How to set up Amazon DynamoDB
• How to crawl Amazon DynamoDB
• What does Atlan crawl from Amazon DynamoDB?
• Troubleshooting Amazon DynamoDB connectivity

🎉 What's new

Your discovery experience in Atlan just got twice as cool — view or jump to recently visited and starred assets right from Cmd/Ctrl + K. Now when you use  Cmd/Ctrl + K to open the search bar anywhere in Atlan, you can also quickly access your recently visited and starred assets! In addition, hover over any of the assets and view the metadata popovers for more context.

Power your discoveries in Atlan with these new enhancements!

🎉 What's new

We’ve got some big news to share with all our Excel lovers out there — Atlan now integrates with Microsoft Excel!

Here’s what you can do with the Excel integration:

Enrich metadata in bulk

The new integration with Excel allows you to document descriptions, certificates, owners, tags, and announcements for your column assets directly in Excel and sync the metadata updates to Atlan with a single click.

Import and analyze impacted assets

Import your impacted assets to Microsoft Excel for lineage analysis. You will be able to assess the downstream impact of any changes made to an upstream asset for impact analysis.

Ready to integrate Atlan with Microsoft Excel? Learn more here:

• How to integrate Atlan with Microsoft Excel
• How to configure custom domains for Microsoft Excel
• How to update column metadata in Microsoft Excel
• How to download impacted assets in Microsoft Excel

🎉 What's new

Announcing some exciting updates to your view and understanding of tag propagation in Atlan!

Dedicated propagation tab for attached tags — check out the new Propagated tab in the tag popover to find out if a tag is being propagated from an upstream asset to the current one. This will help simplify the process of tracking and understanding tag origins and propagation modes.

Tag consolidation — we've consolidated identical tags into one tag, providing a cleaner view and adding context within the tag to indicate its multiple sources.

Comprehensive tag propagation overview — get the full picture of tag propagation for an asset, including the source, mode of propagation, user who attached the tag, and last configured.

Improved sorting and visibility for tags — we've implemented improved sorting of tags while you're attaching them to your assets. Selected tags will now appear at the top of the list by default, helping you focus on and manage priority tags more efficiently.

Enjoy greater transparency and visibility into tag propagation in Atlan! And as always, let us know what you think.

🎉 What's new

Connectors? Yes, you read that right! Announcing Atlan’s native integration with multiple Airflow distributions to enhance your data management and workflow capabilities! With this release, you can now connect Atlan to the following Airflow distributions:

• Amazon Managed Workflow for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
• Astronomer
• Google Cloud Composer
• Open source

This release marks Atlan's first-ever push-based integration leveraging the OpenLineage project. With near-real-time updates to your data estate in Atlan, your metadata will always be up-to-date and reflect the latest changes in the Airflow workflows.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Here's how these connectors can help you:

• Discover and catalog Airflow assets in Atlan, such as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and tasks. This enables you to get a comprehensive overview of your Airflow workflows within Atlan.
• Capture operational metadata like task run details and statuses in Atlan to help you track and monitor the execution of your Airflow workflows.
• Track data lineage between Airflow tasks as well as cross-system lineage across your data estate. This allows data engineers to better debug and understand impact and dependencies.

👏 Give it a shot

Ready to jump in and integrate Atlan with your preferred Airflow distribution? Learn more here:

• Airflow/OpenLineage:
  • How to integrate Airflow/OpenLineage
  • What does Atlan crawl from Airflow/OpenLineage?
  • Troubleshooting Airflow/OpenLineage connectivity
• Amazon MWAA/OpenLineage:
  • How to integrate Amazon MWAA/OpenLineage
  • What does Atlan crawl from Amazon MWAA/OpenLineage?
• Astronomer/OpenLineage:
  • How to integrate Astronomer/OpenLineage
  • What does Atlan crawl from Astronomer/OpenLineage?
• Google Cloud Composer/OpenLineage:
  • How to integrate Google Cloud Composer/OpenLineage
  • What does Atlan crawl from Google Cloud Composer/OpenLineage?

Get started today and let us know what you think!

🎉 What's new

Would you like to have more space to work on or read your glossaries, categories, and terms? Well, we heard you! You can now toggle the sidebar for your glossaries in Atlan — keep it or make it go away, your wish! With the new collapsible glossary sidebar, you can focus on the work you need to do and cut out any noise.

🎉 What's new

You can now set up Teams notifications for glossary changes in Atlan! With real-time alerts sent to the Teams channel you configure, you'll be able to stay informed on the latest changes to your glossaries. You can either choose to receive alerts for all updates or limit notifications to specific types of updates.

You will need to be an admin user in Atlan to enable Teams notifications for glossary updates. Once enabled, anyone in the selected Teams channel will be able to view these alerts directly in Microsoft Teams.

Set up Teams notifications for glossary changes in Atlan!

Not a Teams user? No problem — Atlan also supports Slack notifications for glossary updates!

🎉 What's new

If you have ever changed a dbt model only to find out later that it broke a downstream table or dashboard, Atlan now provides a GitLab CI/CD pipeline to help you out — mirroring our existing GitHub integration. This action places Atlan's impact analysis right into your merge request, so you can view the potential downstream impact of your changes before merging the request. 

Once you have set up the GitLab integration:

• In GitLab, you’ll see this in your merge request.
• In Atlan, you’ll see this relationship from the Resources tab.