Overview

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

This connector uses the Domo APIs to extract metadata relating to cards, pages, datasets, fields, and dataflows. The connector represents a Domo source as a BI type data source in Alation.

The connector supports automatic lineage generation and will derive lineage for cards and pages back through all datasets.

To get the enhanced connector for Domo, contact the Forward Deployed Engineering team, or ask your Alation account team.

Audience

This documentation is for:

1. Alation Business Users

2. Alation Stewards

3. Alation Data Source & Server Administrators

4. Data Catalog and Data Governance program specialists

Team

The following administrators are required to install this connector:

• Domo administrator:

  • Creates an API access token in Domo’s Administration Portal

  • Provides the Domo instance name (example: dev-eu.domo.com)

• Alation Server administrator:

  • Confirms Alation Agent or Alation Connection Manager is installed and available.

  • Installs the connector

  • Creates a Domo BI data source

  • Configures the Domo BI data source

Supported Domo Versions

The connector supports Domo Business Cloud current release.

Scope

The following tables list the feature support of the Domo connector:

Feature	Availability
Authentication
Domo API Access Token	Yes
Metadata Extraction (MDE)
Automated Metadata Extraction (MDE)	Yes
Selective MDE	No*
Extraction of Fields	Yes
Extraction of Calculations	Yes
Extraction of Beast Mode calculations	Yes
Extraction of Cards	Yes
Extraction of Pages	Yes
Extraction of Dataflows	Yes
Query Log Ingestion (QLI)
Automated QLI	No
Lineage
Automatic lineage generation	Yes**
Compose
Alation Compose support	No
Other Features
Sampling & Profiling	No

*Selective MDE is not fully supported; only certified or non-certified Domo content extraction can be configured.

**The connector will derive lineage for cards and pages back through all datasets. Dataflows will also be extracted.

Object Mapping

The top-level Alation folder will be automatically created and named according to the first portion of your Domo url (minus the “.domo.com”). Within this folder will be the following metadata objects:

Domo Type	Alation Type	Description
Page	Dashboard	Each Domo Page will be extracted and cataloged along with a list of the Cards on it.
Card	Report	All Cards on a Page will be cataloged and listed in the Reports section.
Field	Field	Fields used in a Card will be listed in the Fields tab in Alation.
Calculation (and Beast Mode calculation)	Field	Calculations used in a Card will be listed in the Fields tab in Alation.
Dataflow	Dataflow	Lineage between Datasets and Pages along with Dataflows will appear in the Lineage tab.