Configure Metadata Extraction

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

To perform metadata extraction (MDE) follow these steps:

  1. Under Extraction Settings, turn on Selective Extraction, if required. Selective extraction settings are used to apply a filter to include or exclude a list of projects.

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  1. Click Get List of Projects to first fetch the list of projects from ThoughtSpot

  2. The status of the Get Projects action is logged in the Job History table at the bottom of the Settings page.

  3. Once the folder synchronization is successful, a drop-down list of projects will become enabled. Select one or more projects to apply the filter.

  4. Check you are using the desired filter option. Available filter options are described below:

Filter Option

Description

Extract all Projects except

Extract metadata from all projects except from the Folders selected.

Extract only these Projects

Extract metadata from only the selected Projects.

  1. Click Run Extraction Now to extract metadata. The status of the extraction action is also logged in the Job History table at the bottom of the page.

  2. If you wish to automatically update the metadata in the Catalog, under Automated and Manual Extraction, turn on Enable Automated Extraction and select the day and time when metadata must be extracted. The metadata extraction will be automatically scheduled to run at the selected day and time.