Query Service Add-on Release Notes

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Release 1.0.0

Release date TBD

This is the initial release of the Query Service Add-on for the Alation Agent. The Query Service Add-on enables the Zero Data feature, which allows Compose, query forms, scheduled queries, sampling, and profiling to execute on-premises through the Alation Agent with query results stored in your own object store (AWS S3 or Azure Blob Storage).

Key capabilities:

  • Query execution in Compose with results stored in your object store

  • Query form execution with on-premises result storage

  • Scheduled query execution with on-premises result storage

  • Table sampling with on-premises result storage

  • Column profiling with on-premises result storage

  • Secure gateway for browser access to query results

  • Healthcheck service for monitoring the Zero Data stack

  • Support for AWS S3 and Azure Blob Storage as the result storage backend

Prerequisites:

  • Alation Cloud Service version 2026.1 or later.

  • Alation Agent version 1.8.16 or later.