Features
The Discovery module helps you request, serve, and share data assets. It consolidates data from various providers into a unified data asset catalog. This catalog helps data consumers quickly find and obtain the high-quality data assets they need for their business. This process maximizes the business value of the data assets. You can also view the global lineage of a data asset to understand its upstream and downstream relationships.
Overview
The Overview section displays statistics for global and incremental data asset metrics. This helps you quickly understand the overall status of data assets on the platform.
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It supports data table, API, and metric asset types. You can also perform exact or fuzzy searches for data assets.
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You can view global metrics, such as the total number of data assets and new assets added today. Incremental changes are displayed in trend graphs.
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You can view incremental changes for each asset type, including data tables, APIs, and metrics.
Asset catalog
You can search for and view publicly shared data assets in the resource directory. You can view the details of an asset to understand its business value, which encourages sharing and access requests.
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You can view public catalogs for data tables, APIs, and metrics, and search for assets using keywords.
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You can view details for data table assets, such as basic information, extended properties, field information, data previews, lineage, and Data Quality information. You can also request permission to use the data tables.
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You can view basic information, extended properties, interface details, and lineage for APIs. You can also request permission to use the APIs.
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You can view basic information, extended properties, an overview, and associated information for metrics.