Alation User Documentation — Alation User Guide

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Alation Glossary

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Alation Cloud Service Overview

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Alation Anywhere

Alation Anywhere for Microsoft Teams

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Alation Anywhere for Tableau

Alation Chrome Extension

Alation Connected Sheets

Installation & Configuration

Install Alation

High Availability

Back Up and Restore

Enable Lineage Frameworks

Alation Analytics V2

Alation Container Service

Sources

Catalog Sources

Virtual Data Sources

Discover Lineage

Working with Catalog Data

Open Connector Framework

Data Sources

Data Source Configuration

Adding Data Sources

Compose SSO for Amazon Data Sources

Compose SSO for Azure Data Sources

Authentication for Extraction

Google BigQuery

BI Sources

Add Tableau Server

Working with BI Sources

File System Sources

Add File Systems

Virtual File System

Alation for Analysts

User Authentication For Data Sources

Share and Access Queries

Develop Queries

Work with Query Results

Alation for Data Stewards

Generative AI-Based Features

Data Dictionaries

Workflow Center

Governance Dashboard

Stewardship Workbench

Analytics Stewardship

Templates and Custom Fields

Auto-titling and Lexicon

Alation for Server Administrators

Customizable Home Page

Administrator Settings

Additional Configuration

Customize Search Filters

Runbook for Administrators

Troubleshooting

Forward Deployed Engineering

Enhanced Connectors

Archived Documentation

About the Documentation Archive

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Release Notes Archive

Usage and Customization Archive

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