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| Metadata Ingestion | /connectors/ingestion |
Metadata Ingestion
The goal of OpenMetadata is to serve as a centralised platform where users can gather and collaborate around data. This is possible thanks for different workflows that users can deploy and schedule, which will connect to the data sources to extract metadata.
Different metadata being ingested to OpenMetadata can be:
- Entities metadata, such as Tables, Dashboards, Topics...
- Query usage to rank the most used tables,
- Lineage between Entities,
- Data Profiles and Quality Tests.
In this section we will explore the different workflows, how they work and how to use them.
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{%inlineCallout bold="Metadata Ingestion" icon="cable" href="/connectors/ingestion/workflows/metadata"%} Learn more about how to ingest metadata from dozens of connectors. {%/inlineCallout%}
{%inlineCallout bold="Metadata Profiler" icon="cable" href="/how-to-guides/data-quality-observability/profiler/workflow"%} To get metrics from your Tables= {%/inlineCallout%}
{%inlineCallout bold="Metadata Data Quality Tests" icon="cable" href="/how-to-guides/data-quality-observability/quality"%} To run automated Quality Tests on your Tables. {%/inlineCallout%}
{%inlineCallout bold="Metadata Usage" icon="cable" href="/connectors/ingestion/workflows/usage"%} To analyze popular entities. {%/inlineCallout%}
{%inlineCallout bold="Metadata Lineage" icon="cable" href="/connectors/ingestion/workflows/lineage"%} To analyze relationships in your data platform. {%/inlineCallout%}
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a shared, open standard for data quality. It helps data teams eliminate pipeline debt, through data testing, documentation, and profiling. Learn how to configure Great Expectations to integrate with OpenMetadata and ingest your test results to your table service page.
{%inlineCallout bold="Great Expectations" icon="MdOutlineChangeCircle" href="/connectors/ingestion/great-expectations"%} Ingest your test results from Great Expectations. {%/inlineCallout%}
Metadata Versioning
One fundamental aspect of Metadata Ingestion is being able to analyze the evolution of your metadata. OpenMetadata support Metadata Versioning, maintaining the history of changes of all your assets.
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{%inlineCallout bold="Metadata Versioning" icon="360" href="/connectors/ingestion/versioning"%} Learn how OpenMetadata keeps track of your metadata evolution. {%/inlineCallout%}
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Best Practices
You want to know some of the best practices around metadata ingestion? This is the right place!
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{%inlineCallout bold="Best Practices" icon="360" href="/connectors/ingestion/best-practices"%} Learn the best practices to ingest metadata, both from the UI and using any custom orchestrator. {%/inlineCallout%}
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Deep Dive
Understand how OpenMetadata deploys the workflows that are created from the UI.
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{%inlineCallout bold="Ingestion Pipeline UI Deployment" icon="360" href="/connectors/ingestion/deployment"%} Learn about the Pipeline Service interface and how OpenMetadata handles workflow deployments. {%/inlineCallout%}
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