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.
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.
Capabilities
Alation Data Intelligence
Workflow capability for data intelligence operations combining catalog search, lineage tracking, governance, and metadata management in the Alation platform. Enables data stewar...
Run with NaftikoFeatures
Centralized catalog for data sources, schemas, tables, and columns with rich metadata, descriptions, and custom fields for discoverability.
End-to-end data lineage tracking via dataflow objects showing how data moves between sources, transformations, and targets.
Collaborative business glossary for defining standardized terms, abbreviations, and synonyms with stewardship assignments.
Comprehensive data quality rules covering accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness, validity, and custom dimensions.
Governance policy management for data protection, retention, access control, and quality enforcement across the enterprise.
Full-text and semantic search powered by AI for discovering trusted data assets, with aggregated context for LLM consumption.
Specialized API for AI applications to retrieve structured catalog context for natural language queries, enabling RAG and AI agent workflows.
Extensible metadata framework with custom fields for any catalog object type, supporting batch updates via the REST API.
Use Cases
Enable data teams to search and find trusted data assets across all data sources using metadata-enriched catalog browsing and search.
Enforce data governance policies, maintain business glossaries, and track stewardship for regulatory compliance and data accountability.
Power AI applications with structured catalog context from the aggregated context API, enabling accurate data-aware LLM responses.
Track data flows between systems for compliance auditing, impact analysis, and root cause investigation of data quality issues.
Define and score data quality rules across catalog objects for continuous quality monitoring and improvement workflows.
Integrations
Native Snowflake integration for automatic metadata harvesting and query log analysis to build comprehensive data lineage.
dbt integration for capturing transformation lineage and linking dbt models to physical tables in the Alation catalog.
BI metadata integration for cataloging Tableau reports and dashboards with lineage to underlying data sources.
Official Python SDK and AI Agent SDK for programmatic access to Alation catalog APIs and AI agent development.
Integration with Apache Atlas for federated metadata management across heterogeneous data platforms.