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These docs are for v2024.1.1. Click to read the latest docs for v2026.6.1-0.

Release Notes

API Release Notes

API Overview

API Overview
Generate Tokens for the Alation API
APIs by Roles
Pagination
Throttling
Object Keys & Object IDs
- Multipart Schema Names
- Keys with Special Characters
Creating an API Service Account
Open API Index
HTML Sanitization
Log Based API Error Codes
Finding Your Alation Version

Lineage Guides

Lineage - General API Quick Start Guide
Lineage & Dataflow - Frequently Asked Questions
Lineage - Dataflow Quick Start

Virtual Sources (VS) Guides

VS BI Quick Start
VS for NoSQL Databases

Specific Use Cases

Updating Custom Metadata/Descriptions for BI Objects
Searching for Tables By Custom Field
Systems Integrations to Alation
Alation Open Data Quality Initiative Guide
Migrate Data Sources from Native Connectors to OCF

Upload Logical Metadata (ULM)

ULM: Key Formatting
ULM: Custom Field Formatting
Updating Custom Metadata for NoSQL Sources

VS BI Quick Start

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