Alation

Use Alation's data productsarrow-up-right in their Marketplace or assets in their catalog and configure the access request links so users can click a button directly in Alation to request access. You may also opt to add the access request links to data object descriptions.

Requirements

You can use Alation data products with assets, or you can mirror your Alation data products in Immuta. See the tabs below for instructions for each option.

  1. Follow the Alation documentation to Create a data productarrow-up-right.

  2. Follow the Alation documentation to Add delivery systemsarrow-up-right to your new data product. Insert the access request link for the asset aligning with the data product in the URI field as seen below and update the accessRequestInstruction field to match the sample provided:

deliverySystems:
  immuta:
    accessRequestInstruction:
      provider: Immuta
      type: external
      uri: "https://app.immutacloud.com/marketplace/data-product/00868568-30bc-4c8a-b36c-d88afa2c01d3/request-access?type=data-access"
  1. To set up access request links for access requests, use the Alation APIarrow-up-right to make a call to the https://<your_alation_url>/integration/v2/catalog_chooser/register_opener/ endpoint with the following payload:

  2. To set up access request links for masking exception requests, use the Alation APIarrow-up-right to make a call to the https://<your_alation_url>/integration/v2/catalog_chooser/register_opener/ endpoint with the following payload:

This will automatically update all the supported data sources with the request access link to their corresponding asset under the Open with button in Alation.

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