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Welcome to Alation

About Alation

Alation Cloud and On-Premise

User Profile and Preferences

Catalog Basics

Catalog Pages

Document Hubs

Conversations

Domains

Best Practices

Alation Glossary

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Alation Cloud Service

Status Page

Alation Cloud Service Overview

Configuration for the Cloud

Alation Agent

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Alation Integrations

Alation Anywhere

Alation Connected Sheets

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Installation & Configuration

Install Alation

High Availability

Update Alation

Back Up and Restore

Enable Lineage Frameworks

Alation Analytics V2

Alation Container Service

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Sources

Catalog Sources

Virtual Data Sources

Explore Lineage

API Resources

Working with Catalog Data

Open Connector Framework

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Data Sources

Data Source Configuration

Adding Data Sources

Compose SSO for Amazon Data Sources

Compose SSO for Azure Data Sources

Authentication for Extraction

Custom DB

Google BigQuery

Hive

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BI Sources

Add BI Sources

Add Tableau Server

Working with BI Sources

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File System Sources

Add File Systems

Virtual File System

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Alation for Analysts

User Authentication For Data Sources

Share and Access Queries

Write Queries

Develop Queries

Work with Query Results

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Alation for Data Stewards

Generative AI-Based Features

Data Dictionaries

Governance App

Policy Center

Workflow Center

Governance Dashboard

Stewardship Workbench

Analytics Stewardship

Documentation

Templates and Custom Fields

Catalog Sets

Auto-titling and Lexicon

Tags

Snowflake Tags

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Alation for Server Administrators

Customizable Home Page

Administrator Settings

Additional Configuration

Customize Search Filters

Runbook for Administrators

Alation APIs

How-tos

Troubleshooting

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Forward Deployed Engineering

Enhanced Connectors

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Archived Documentation

About the Documentation Archive

Administration and Update Archive

Release Notes Archive

Usage and Customization Archive

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Release Notes | Support Matrices | Important Notices and Security Alerts