Discover Metadata

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

This section contains topics that describe how to discover metadata from various sources, sampling data, ingest the queries, and see lineage.

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