🎉 What's new

Tags and custom metadata in Atlan now offer even more personalization options! Choose from hundreds of emojis to personalize your tags and better represent your custom metadata visually with icons.

Here are all the cool things you can do:

• Tags — create meaningful visual associations for your tags with emojis! 🙌 
• Custom metadata — add icons to your custom metadata! Once you've selected an icon, choose from 4 different colors — gray, green, yellow, and red — to provide additional visual context. ✓

Choose from a wide range of personalization options for your tags and custom metadata and provide more context on their purpose. Try it out and let us know what you think!

🎉 What's new

Introducing a new and seamless integration between Google Sheets and the activity log in Atlan! Now, every metadata update you make using Google Sheets will be instantly recorded in Atlan through the activity log. But wait, there's more!

While viewing the activity log for an asset, each Google Sheets update will include a direct link to the source spreadsheet to help you understand the type and origin of the updates. Get all the context you need from Atlan or Google Sheets — your pick! 😉

🎉 What's new

Introducing two new additions to Atlan's awesome team of filters — the Parent asset type and Parent asset name filters! You can use these filters to power your discovery of column assets.

Here's how the new filters can help you:

• Use the Parent asset type filter to find columns for a specific type of parent asset — tables and views.
• Use the Parent asset name filter to find columns with a specific table or view name or through pattern match.
• Use the filters together to quickly narrow down the columns you need right from the Assets page.
• Add the new filters while creating playbooks to easily update your column assets at scale.

Give these new filters a shot and let us know what you think!

🎉 What's new

We are excited to announce native connector support for MongoDB — a NoSQL data source! This empowers our users to catalog their MongoDB assets in Atlan, including databases and collections.

✨ Let's dig deeper

You can set up the MongoDB connector to:

• Seamlessly discover and document your MongoDB assets — groups, projects, jobs, and components.
• Streamline your workflows with MongoDB-specific filters like Collection type for quick asset discovery.
• Atlan currently only supports integration with MongoDB Atlas and through username-password authentication.

👏 Give it a shot

Ready to integrate MongoDB with Atlan? Get started today! Also, keep an eye out for some exciting updates ahead, such as lineage support!

🎉 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!