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Alation

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Built when you ask for it

Sync Alation article, table, and query data into your warehouse. Ingest builds this connector the first time a customer asks for it, then keeps the tables current in a data warehouse you own, on the schedule you choose.

The Alation connector syncs your data catalog data into analytics-ready tables in your data warehouse. Pull articles, tables, queries, and users from the Alation API, with Ingest handling auth, pagination, and retries so the tables stay current.

What you would get

Each of these arrives as its own table, kept current on the schedule you choose:

  • Articles
  • Tables
  • Queries
  • Users

How it gets built

  1. Choose Alation when you set up a pipeline, with the warehouse it goes to and a schedule.
  2. Ingest reads Alation's documentation, and you choose the tables you want.
  3. Ingest builds the connector and tests it against Alation itself.
  4. A person at Ingest reviews and publishes it, and your pipeline starts on its own.

What you will need

Refresh token exchanged for a short-lived access token. In Alation, go to Account Settings > Authentication to create a refresh token.

You enter it once, in a form in Ingest, and it is kept in a secret store set aside for your organization.

Questions

Does Ingest have a Alation connector?
Not as a finished connector yet. Ingest builds it from Alation's own documentation the first time a customer asks, tests it against the real service, and lists it once it passes.
Which warehouses can Alation data go to?
Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Apache Iceberg, Ingest Managed Lakehouse, MotherDuck, Postgres, Amazon Athena, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, MySQL / generic SQL and Snowflake, in an account you own.
Do I need to write code?
No. Ingest builds, runs and maintains the connector. Someone with access to your warehouse connects it once, following a short guide.

Alation API documentation: https://developer.alation.com/dev

Setting up the destination is its own short guide, one per warehouse or lake: Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Apache Iceberg, Ingest Managed Lakehouse, MotherDuck, Postgres, Amazon Athena, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, MySQL / generic SQL, Snowflake.

Other sources Ingest connects for SaaS teams: Asana, Jira, Airtable, Clockify, Facebook Ads, Frankfurter.

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