Getting Started with External Catalogs

The how-to guides linked on this page illustrate how to link an external catalog with Immuta to ingest tags.

Best practice: Use a single catalog; having more than one can lead to multiple truths and data leaks.

Link an Alation external catalog

Requirement: A catalog with tags that correspond to your Immuta data sources

Configuration process

1. Connect your Alation catalog to Immuta.

2. When changes are made to the external catalog, refresh external tags.

Link a Collibra external catalog

Requirements:

• A physical data dictionary with assets that correspond to your Immuta data sources

• The Collibra global role Catalog or Catalog Author

Configuration process

1. Connect your Collibra catalog to Immuta.

2. When changes are made to the external catalog, refresh external tags.

Link a Microsoft Purview external catalog

Requirements:

• A catalog with assets that correspond to your Immuta data sources

• The ability to create a registered app in the Azure portal

Configuration process

1. Connect your Microsoft Purview catalog to Immuta.

2. When changes are made to the external catalog, refresh external tags.

Link a custom REST catalog

Requirements:

• A catalog with tags that correspond to your Immuta data sources

• Authenticate with the Immuta API

Configuration process

1. Connect your custom REST Catalog to Immuta.

2. When changes are made to the external catalog, refresh external tags.

Link Databricks Unity Catalog for tag ingestion

Requirements:

• Fewer than 2,500 Databricks Unity Catalog data sources registered in Immuta

• Databricks privileges listed on the Configure a Databricks Unity Catalog integration page

Configuration process

1. Configure Databricks Unity Catalog integration.

2. Configure Databricks Unity tag ingestion in Immuta.

3. Register Databricks data sources in Immuta.

Once you register data sources, table and column tags from Databricks Unity Catalog will be ingested and applied to the corresponding data sources in Immuta.

Link Snowflake for tag ingestion

Requirements:

• A Snowflake user who can set the following permissions:

  1. GRANT IMPORTED PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE snowflake

  2. GRANT APPLY TAG ON ACCOUNT

• Snowflake Enterprise Edition or higher

Configuration process

1. Configure Snowflake tag ingestion in Immuta.

2. When changes are made to the tags in Snowflake, refresh external tags.