Enhanced Connectors Release Notes¶
Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation
Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation
March 13, 2026¶
Atlas Enhanced Connector: Version 1.0.10¶
Enhancements¶
Performance Settings¶
The connector now supports the following configurable performance settings for metadata extraction under the General Settings tab: (AL-229433)
Tables Batch Size: Specifies the number of tables to fetch per API call for optimized extraction performance.
Parallel Thread Count: Specifies the number of parallel threads for metadata extraction.
Logging Configuration¶
The connector now supports configurable logging levels for improved troubleshooting and debugging. Available log levels include INFO, DEBUG, WARN, TRACE, ERROR, FATAL, and ALL.
Test Access and Fetch Schemas¶
The connector now provides a streamlined workflow to test the connection to Atlas and fetch available schemas before running metadata extraction.
Selective Extraction¶
The connector now supports selective schema extraction, allowing users to:
Select specific schemas for extraction
Search and filter schemas by name
Keep the catalog synchronized with the current selection
For more information, see Atlas Enhanced Connector.
March 11, 2026¶
Amazon SageMaker Catalog Enhanced Connector (Beta): Version 1.1.0¶
Enhancements¶
Support for Lineage Extraction¶
The connector now supports extracting lineage information from AWS SageMaker and creating cross-source lineage between BI source objects and SageMaker objects in Alation. (AL-218606)
December 17, 2025¶
Amazon SageMaker Catalog Enhanced Connector (Beta): Version 1.0.0¶
The Amazon SageMaker Catalog Enhanced Connector is now available for download. Use this connector to integrate Amazon SageMaker Catalog as a data source in Alation and understand the business transformation on their data from the Alation user interface. (AL-210048)
The connector is compatible with Alation version 2025.3.3 and higher.
Note
The connector is available only for Alation Cloud Service deployments and New User Experience.
Features¶
Authentication: Supports Basic and AWS IAM role authentication
Metadata Extraction: The connector extracts SageMaker objects such as Domains, Projects, Asset Types, and Asset Fields.
For more information, see Amazon SageMaker Catalog Enhanced Connector (Beta).
November 12, 2025¶
Matillion Enhanced Connector (Beta): Version 1.0.0¶
The Matillion Enhanced connector is now available for download. It is supported with Matillion Data Productivity Cloud (DPC). (AL-200846)
The connector is compatible with Alation version 2025.3.2 and higher.
Features¶
Lineage-Only connector: The Matillion OCF connector exclusively extracts lineage information. Supports lineage between data sources powered by the Matillion Tool.
The connector does NOT perform metadata extraction (MDE), query log ingestion (QLI), or data sampling/profiling. For table and column metadata, you must configure and catalog the actual source and destination databases separately in Alation.
For more information, see Matillion OCF Connector (Beta).
March 6, 2025¶
Azure Data Explorer Enhanced Connector: Version 1.1.2¶
The Azure Data Explorer Enhanced connector is now available for download. It is supported with Azure Data Explorer (ADX).
The connector is compatible with Alation version 2025.3.2 and higher.
Features¶
Authentication: Azure AD authentication
Metadata Extraction: The connector extracts Azure Data Explorer objects such as Databases, Tables, and Columns.
Sampling and Profiling: The connector samples data from Azure Data Explorer tables and profiles it.
For more information, see Azure Data Explorer Enhanced Connector.