Alation Plugin Capabilities

This article provides more details about the key capabilities of Alation Plugin.

Get Objects

Alation supports pulling the following object types:

  • Glossaries;
  • Custom Metadata;
  • Full relation.

Get Data

By getting data in Metric Insights we mean the ability to create Datasets. Alation Plugin supports creating Datasets from Glossary and Custom Metadata.

Get Filters

Alation Plugin does not support pulling Filters from Alation Objects to Metric Insights.

Get Report Image

Alation Plugin does not support getting images.

Embed in iFrame

Alation Plugin supports embedding into the application or other HTML pages by using embed codes.

Support OAuth 2.0

Alation Plugin does not support OAuth 2.0.

Support Content Autosync

Alation Plugin doesn't support Content Autosync.