Overview¶
Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation
Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation
This connector uses the Domo APIs to extract metadata relating to cards, pages, datasets, fields, and dataflows. The connector represents a Domo source as a BI type data source in Alation.
The connector supports automatic lineage generation and will derive lineage for cards and pages back through all datasets.
To get the enhanced connector for Domo, contact the Forward Deployed Engineering team, or ask your Alation account team.
Audience¶
This documentation is for:
Alation Business Users
Alation Stewards
Alation Data Source & Server Administrators
Data Catalog and Data Governance program specialists
Team¶
The following administrators are required to install this connector:
Domo administrator:
Creates an API access token in Domo’s Administration Portal
Provides the Domo instance name (example: dev-eu.domo.com)
Alation Server administrator:
Confirms Alation Agent or Alation Connection Manager is installed and available.
Installs the connector
Creates a Domo BI data source
Configures the Domo BI data source
Supported Domo Versions¶
The connector supports Domo Business Cloud current release.
Scope¶
The following tables list the feature support of the Domo connector:
Feature |
Availability |
|---|---|
Authentication |
|
Domo API Access Token |
Yes |
Metadata Extraction (MDE) |
|
Automated Metadata Extraction (MDE) |
Yes |
Selective MDE |
No* |
Extraction of Fields |
Yes |
Extraction of Calculations |
Yes |
Extraction of Beast Mode calculations |
Yes |
Extraction of Cards |
Yes |
Extraction of Pages |
Yes |
Extraction of Dataflows |
Yes |
Query Log Ingestion (QLI) |
|
Automated QLI |
No |
Lineage |
|
Automatic lineage generation |
Yes** |
Compose |
|
Alation Compose support |
No |
Other Features |
|
Sampling & Profiling |
No |
*Selective MDE is not fully supported; only certified or non-certified Domo content extraction can be configured.
**The connector will derive lineage for cards and pages back through all datasets. Dataflows will also be extracted.
Object Mapping¶
The top-level Alation folder will be automatically created and named according to the first portion of your Domo url (minus the “.domo.com”). Within this folder will be the following metadata objects:
Domo Type |
Alation Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
Page |
Dashboard |
Each Domo Page will be extracted and cataloged along with a list of the Cards on it. |
Card |
Report |
All Cards on a Page will be cataloged and listed in the Reports section. |
Field |
Field |
Fields used in a Card will be listed in the Fields tab in Alation. |
Calculation (and Beast Mode calculation) |
Field |
Calculations used in a Card will be listed in the Fields tab in Alation. |
Dataflow |
Dataflow |
Lineage between Datasets and Pages along with Dataflows will appear in the Lineage tab. |