Alation

Alation is a data intelligence platform that helps organizations harness the power of their data by providing a centralized platform for data cataloging, governance, and collaboration. By enabling users to easily search, understand, and trust their data, Alation empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions with confidence. Through advanced analytics and AI capabilities, Alation helps organizations uncover insights, improve data quality, and drive innovation.

4 APIs 8 Features

Data CatalogData GovernanceData IntelligenceData LineageData QualityBusiness GlossaryMetadata ManagementAI

APIs

Alation Data Catalog API

REST API for managing data sources, schemas, tables, columns, and custom field values in the Alation data catalog. Supports metadata retrieval and batch updates for catalog obje...

Alation Lineage API

REST API for managing data lineage and dataflow objects in Alation. Supports creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting lineage paths between catalog objects.

Alation Governance API

REST API for data governance workflows in Alation, including business glossary management, governance policy enforcement, and data quality rules and scoring.

Alation Search API

REST API for searching and discovering catalog assets in Alation. Supports full-text search, AI-powered aggregated context retrieval, and article browsing.

Collections

API Collection

OPEN

GraphQL

Alation GraphQL API

Alation is a data intelligence platform for data search and discovery. The API covers data source management, data objects (tables, columns, queries), catalog articles, lineage,...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans

Alation Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

Alation Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps

Alation Finops

FINOPS

Features

Data Catalog

Centralized catalog for data sources, schemas, tables, and columns with rich metadata, descriptions, and custom fields for discoverability.

Data Lineage

End-to-end data lineage tracking via dataflow objects showing how data moves between sources, transformations, and targets.

Business Glossary

Collaborative business glossary for defining standardized terms, abbreviations, and synonyms with stewardship assignments.

Data Quality

Comprehensive data quality rules covering accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness, validity, and custom dimensions.

Governance Policies

Governance policy management for data protection, retention, access control, and quality enforcement across the enterprise.

AI-Powered Search

Full-text and semantic search powered by AI for discovering trusted data assets, with aggregated context for LLM consumption.

Aggregated Context API

Specialized API for AI applications to retrieve structured catalog context for natural language queries, enabling RAG and AI agent workflows.

Custom Fields

Extensible metadata framework with custom fields for any catalog object type, supporting batch updates via the REST API.

Use Cases

Enterprise Data Discovery

Enable data teams to search and find trusted data assets across all data sources using metadata-enriched catalog browsing and search.

Data Governance Compliance

Enforce data governance policies, maintain business glossaries, and track stewardship for regulatory compliance and data accountability.

AI Data Context

Power AI applications with structured catalog context from the aggregated context API, enabling accurate data-aware LLM responses.

Data Lineage Auditing

Track data flows between systems for compliance auditing, impact analysis, and root cause investigation of data quality issues.

Data Quality Management

Define and score data quality rules across catalog objects for continuous quality monitoring and improvement workflows.

Semantic Vocabularies

Alation Alation Context

0 classes · 60 properties

JSON-LD

API Governance Rules

Alation API Rules

26 rules · 14 errors 10 warnings 2 info

2 properties

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Resources

GitHubOrganization

Sources

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