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2026.3.1.0 API Release Notes

New

Link External Jira Incidents to Data Quality Monitors

Alation now supports linking existing Jira issues directly to data quality monitors using a new API endpoint. This integration allows Server Admins, Catalog Admins, Source Admins, or Data Stewards to seamlessly track incident resolution alongside their data quality workflows within the Alation catalog.

• /integration/v1/native_data_quality/incident/link: Connects your existing incident management workflow with Alation by fetching issue details from Jira and creating a linked incident record in Alation's incident management service. Additionally, you can optionally associate specific check and anomaly UUIDs with the incident.
• Idempotent Operation: If a request is made using an existing combination of monitor_id, issue_key, and provider, the system will simply return the existing incident. If new check_ids or anomaly_ids are included in the request, the system will update the existing incident's metadata. (AL-228906)

Data Products Authentication API

Introducing the new Data Product Authentication API suite. This initial release provides a standardized and secure Open API specification for managing authentication configurations for Data Products in Alation.

• Diverse Authentication Support: Full support for BASIC auth, OAuth 2.0, AWS IAM, Private Key (KEYPAIR) with optional passphrases, and Google BigQuery Service Accounts (GBQ_SA).
• Secure Credential Storage: All user credentials are encrypted and stored securely utilizing tenant-specific encryption.
• Automatic Connection Validation: Built-in support for automatic and on-demand credential validation via asynchronous test connection jobs. Creating new credentials automatically triggers a validation test.
• Advanced State Management: Includes application-defined state identifiers for tracking authentication flows and supports many-to-many relationships (multiple data products per credential).

API Endpoint Capabilities

• Credentials Management (/api/v2/auth/credentials/): Full CRUD operations to securely create, list, update, and delete user credentials.
• Connection Testing (/test_connection/ and /test_connection_status/): Endpoints to trigger test connections and poll job statuses.
• Configuration Management (/api/v2/auth/dp/{data_product_id}/): Endpoints to create, retrieve, update, or remove specific authentication configurations for data products.
• System and Scheme Discovery: Endpoints to query enabled schemes, discover supported authentication capabilities, and check overall system feature flags.