OpenMetadata/openmetadata-docs/content/v1.9.x-SNAPSHOT/main-concepts/metadata-standard/schemas/entity/services/metadataService.md

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Metadata Service | OpenMetadata Metadata Service	Represent metadata service entity for platform-level operations and orchestration.	/main-concepts/metadata-standard/schemas/entity/services/metadataservice

Metadata Service

This schema defines the Metadata Service entity, such as Amundsen, Atlas etc.

Properties

• id: Unique identifier of this database service instance. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/uuid.
• name: Name that identifies this database service. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/entityName.
• fullyQualifiedName: FullyQualifiedName same as name. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/fullyQualifiedEntityName.
• displayName (string): Display Name that identifies this database service.
• serviceType: Type of database service such as MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Postgres... Refer to #/definitions/metadataServiceType.
• description: Description of a database service instance. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/markdown.
• connection: Refer to #/definitions/metadataConnection.
• pipelines: References to pipelines deployed for this database service to extract metadata, usage, lineage etc.. Refer to ../../type/entityReferenceList.json.
• version: Metadata version of the entity. Refer to ../../type/entityHistory.json#/definitions/entityVersion.
• updatedAt: Last update time corresponding to the new version of the entity in Unix epoch time milliseconds. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/timestamp.
• updatedBy (string): User who made the update.
• testConnectionResult: Last test connection results for this service. Refer to connections/testConnectionResult.json.
• tags (array): Tags for this Metadata Service. Default: [].
  • Items: Refer to ../../type/tagLabel.json.
• owners: Owners of this database service. Refer to ../../type/entityReferenceList.json.
• href: Link to the resource corresponding to this database service. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/href.
• changeDescription: Change that lead to this version of the entity. Refer to ../../type/entityHistory.json#/definitions/changeDescription.
• deleted (boolean): When true indicates the entity has been soft deleted. Default: false.
• provider: Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/providerType.
• domain: Domain the asset belongs to. When not set, the asset inherits the domain from the parent it belongs to. Refer to ../../type/entityReference.json.

Definitions

• metadataServiceType (string): Type of database service such as Amundsen, Atlas... Must be one of: ["Amundsen", "MetadataES", "OpenMetadata", "Atlas", "Alation", "AlationSink"].
• metadataConnection (object): Metadata Service Connection. Cannot contain additional properties.
  • config
    • One of
      • : Refer to ./connections/metadata/amundsenConnection.json.
      • : Refer to ./connections/metadata/metadataESConnection.json.
      • : Refer to ./connections/metadata/openMetadataConnection.json.
      • : Refer to ./connections/metadata/atlasConnection.json.
      • : Refer to ./connections/metadata/alationConnection.json.
      • : Refer to ./connections/metadata/alationSinkConnection.json.

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