1. Setup a ServiceAccount as per [BigQuery docs](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-accounts#iam-service-accounts-create-console)
and assign the previously created role to this service account.
When `use_exported_bigquery_audit_metadata` is set to `true`, lineage information will be computed using exported bigquery logs. On how to setup exported bigquery audit logs, refer to the following [docs](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/auditlogs#defining_a_bigquery_log_sink_using_gcloud) on BigQuery audit logs. Note that only protoPayloads with "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.audit.BigQueryAuditMetadata" are supported by the current ingestion version. The `bigquery_audit_metadata_datasets` parameter will be used only if `use_exported_bigquery_audit_metadat` is set to `true`.
Note: the `bigquery_audit_metadata_datasets` parameter receives a list of datasets, in the format $PROJECT.$DATASET. This way queries from a multiple number of projects can be used to compute lineage information.
Note: Since bigquery source also supports dataset level lineage, the auth client will require additional permissions to be able to access the google audit logs. Refer the permissions section in bigquery-usage section below which also accesses the audit logs.
### Profiling Details
Profiling can profile normal/partitioned and sharded tables as well but due to performance reasons, we only profile the latest partition for Partitioned tables and the latest shard for sharded tables.
If limit/offset parameter is set or partitioning partitioned or sharded table Great Expectation (the profiling framework we use) needs to create temporary
views. By default, these views are created in the schema where the profiled table is but you can control to create all these
tables into a predefined schema by setting `profiling.bigquery_temp_table_schema` property.
Due to performance reasons, we only profile the latest partition for Partitioned tables and the latest shard for sharded tables.
You can set partition explicitly with `partition.partition_datetime` property if you want. (partition will be applied to all partitioned tables)
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### Working with multi-project GCP setups
Sometimes you may have multiple GCP project with one only giving you view access rights and other project where you have view/modify rights.
The GCP roles with which this setup has been tested are as follows
- Storage Project
- BigQuery Data Viewer
- BigQuery Metadata Viewer
- Logs Viewer
- Private Logs Viewer
- Compute Project
- BigQuery Admin
- BigQuery Data Editor
- BigQuery Job User
If you are using `use_exported_bigquery_audit_metadata = True` then make sure you prefix the datasets in `bigquery_audit_metadata_datasets` with storage project id.
### Caveats
- For Materialized views lineage is dependent on logs being retained. If your GCP logging is retained for 30 days (default) and 30 days have passed since the creation of the materialized view we won't be able to get lineage for them.