🎉 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

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 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.

🎉 What’s new

We are excited to announce the addition of QVD file support in Qlik! With this new feature, users can now:

• Crawl QVD datasets: Directly crawl and explore datasets created by QVD files within Atlan.
• Discover Data: Perform data discovery around these datasets to gain insights and enhance data-driven workflows.
• Lineage Support: We’ve also added lineage support for datasets generated by QVD files, ensuring a complete understanding of how data flows and evolves across your systems.
  

✨ Let’s dig deeper

• QVD File Datasets as Regular Assets:Datasets obtained from QVD files will now be treated as regular dataset assets, making them easier to manage and track within the system.

• New Dataset Attribute for Implicit Status: A new attribute will be added to indicate whether a dataset is implicit or not. This will help clarify the nature of datasets and their role in the overall usage.
• Chart Asset Type Filtering:We will now filter out all non-relevant entities from the chart view, displaying only the chart asset type for a cleaner, more focused visualization.

👏 Give it a shot

Learn more and let us know what you think!

• What does Atlan crawl from Qlik Sense Cloud
• Troubleshooting Qlik Sense Cloud connectivity

🎉 What’s new

We are excited to announce the addition of SCRAM authentication support for the Apache Kafka connector. This feature allows for a more secure form of password-based authentication.

• SCRAM Authentication: Kafka now supports SCRAM-SHA-256 and SCRAM-SHA-512 for authenticating clients and brokers.
• Improved Security: SCRAM provides stronger password hashing and eliminates the need for plaintext passwords, ensuring better protection against brute-force attacks.
  

✨ Let’s dig deeper

This release makes it easier to ensure a higher level of security in your Kafka environment, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and improving overall system integrity.

• Enhanced authentication security for Kafka clusters.
• Better integration with existing enterprise security practices.
• Allows fine-grained access control through password management.

👏 Give it a shot

Use a more secure way to integrate Apache Kafka with Atlan!

Learn more:

• How to set up Apache Kafka

• How to crawl Apache Kafka

  
  

🎉 What’s new

Enhance your Access Management workflows with webhook support, enabling seamless automation of access provisioning and revocation. Now, once an access request is approved in Atlan, or a revocation request is raised, a webhook event can be triggered to launch external processes, ensuring efficient and automated access management.

• Trigger an event post-approval, for granting access, or upon a revocation request, for removing access
• Admins can now define actions for revoking access within the Access Management Workflow
  
  

✨ Let’s dig deeper

Organizations need a way to automate provisioning and revocation processes once access decisions are made in Atlan. Previously, approvals in Atlan had to be followed by manual actions in external systems to grant or revoke access. 

Webhook Support for Automated Provisioning & Revocation 

• After an access request is approved in Atlan, a webhook can be triggered to initiate provisioning in external systems.
• When a revocation request is raised in Atlan, a webhook can trigger external actions to revoke access from the source system without requiring further approvals.
  

Access Management Workflow Enhancements 

• The "Data Access Approval Workflow" template will now be renamed Access Management to better reflect its expanded capabilities.
• Admins can now define actions for revoking access within the Access Management Workflow. Once a revocation request is raised in Atlan, an action (Webhook, Jira, or ServiceNow) can be triggered to ensure access is revoked from the source system.

Important Note: The Access Management Workflow only supports revocation actions for access granted in the source system. Permissions granted through Governance Workflows in Atlan will continue to follow their default revocation process.

👏 Give it a shot

Learn more and let us know what you think!

🎉 What's new

By popular demand, we are now enabling teams to define compliance conditions on assets and ensure that governance policies are enforced.

With rules in the Policy Center, you now can: 

• Define compliance rules at a policy level — for example, a GDPR policy will be breached if an asset within the scope of the policy does not have a PII tag.
• Automatically create incidents when any changes to scoped assets violate these rules.

✨ Let's dig deeper

Previously, while policies helped define governance guidelines, there was no way to define the specifications of what the assets in scope should comply to. The only automated incident triggers occurred when scope definitions were changed. With this change, organizations can now proactively define and enforce compliance conditions, ensuring automated governance across their data assets.

👏 Give it a shot

Check this out in the Policy Center and help your organization comply with policies and build confidence with responsible governance and access management. 

Learn more:

• How to automate policy compliance
• How to create policies
• How to manage policies
• Troubleshooting policies

🎉 What's new

As an Atlan admin, you can now permanently remove users from your Atlan instance and transfer asset ownership to a fellow team member. Note that removing a user from your Atlan instance is a permanent and irreversible action.

With the remove user capability now available, Atlan admins can:

• Remove other users from Atlan.
• Transfer assets from the removed user to another user within the same flow.

Learn more: How to manage users