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Getting Started

What is K?

K Architecture
Assets Catalogued in K

Key Concepts & Terminology
K User Roles
Onboarding to K
Overview of Key Pages in K

K Features

Data Discovery

Data Profiles

Overview Tab

Generating Descriptions using K.ai

Usage Tab
Quality
Sidebar
Change History
Warning Notice

Trust Score

Search & Filters

Search Results Page
Search Filter Tips
Filters Page
Linked Search

Ask K
Ecosystem Map

Personalisation

Data Lists

K Notifications

K Feed
K Alerts
K Daily Briefing

Collections

Key K Collections
Domain Collections
Linking to Tags vs Collections
Understanding Glossaries and Terms
Bulk Edit Collections
Using Collection Map to check and link items
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Collections
Verifying Data (Data Products, Reports, etc) for a Use Case

Usage & Insights

Usage Metrics

Intelligent Lineage & Change Management

Notify Impacted Stakeholders
Data Change Timeline
Understanding Reference Objects
Column level lineage

Data Governance

Dashboard & Insights

Data Owner & Steward Dashboards

Detect PII
Automate Data Tagging
Bulk Functions

Managing Data Quality

Data Quality Dimensions
Data Quality Scores
Aggregating Data Quality Metrics by Collections
Raising an issue from a Data Quality Test
Assigning an Owner/Steward to a Data Quality Test

Embedded Governance

Adding the Embedded Governance Link into a Power BI report
Hiding Sheets in Detailed Embedding

Performing Tasks in Bulk

Bulk Action
Cascade Update
Bulk Edit via Excel Upload
Bulk Lineage Mapper

KDQ Module

KDQ Workspaces
Synchronising KDQ Results to K
KDQ Connections
Configuring KDQ Workspace Access
Configuring a KDQ Connection
Configuring a Dataset
Configuring a KDQ Job
Configuring KDQ Tests
Publishing and Running DQ Tests
Reviewing KDQ Results
Integrating KDQ Jobs with your Scheduler

K Applications

Impact Assessment
Lineage Mapper
Code Search
Import Bulk Edit File

How-To Guides

How to update Profile Settings?
How to change number of Search results displayed
How to run column level lineage (Beta)
How to use K for Data Migration Analysis
How to customise search with filters
How to identify masked data
How to Create a Collection in K
How to Link data items to an Instance
How to Create an Instance in a Collection
How to Create and Link a Channel (e.g. Slack and Teams)
How to Create and Add Users to a Team
How to link Data Owners and Stewards

FAQs

Role permissions
What to do with warning message: Account already exists
What updates are real-time vs batch dependent?
What are the Column Lineage limitations?
What are the usage and load frequency definitions?
What is the Data Cart?
What is the difference between Alias and Alternate Name?

Deployment & Setup

Initial Setup - Customising your K Platform
KADA Deployment - Go live checklist
Configuring KADA in your Microsoft App Page

Configuring users in K

Configuring role permissions
Configuring SSO with Azure Active Directory / Entra ID
Configuring SSO with Okta
Managing local users (Add, Edit, Delete, Reset Password)
Removing Local account access after SSO is enabled
Creating Data Owners & Stewards that will not be logging into K
Bulk set-up of users and teams

Deploying to your own Kubernetes Service
How to deploy K collectors on Windows VM
How to deploy on your cloud

Setting up Azure Open AI Large Language Model

Updating the Azure Open AI models

Setting up K.ai
Updating an expired App secret used for Azure AD / Power BI integration
WIP: Deploying to your own Kubernetes Service

Integration Guides

How to onboard a new source
How to disconnect and reactivate a source

Collector Method

Collector Integration General Notes

Athena (via Collector method)

Athena (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

BigQuery (via Collector method)

BigQuery (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Snowflake (via Collector method)

Snowflake (via Collector method) - v3.1.0
Snowflake (via Collector method) - v3.2.0
Snowflake (via Collector method) - v3.3.0
Snowflake (via Collector method) - v3.4.0
Snowflake (via Collector method) - v3.5.0

SQL Server (via Collector method)

SQL Server (via Collector method) - v3.0.1
SQL Server (via Collector method) - v3.1.0
SQL Server (via Collector method) - v3.2.0

Tableau Cloud (via Collector method)

Tableau Cloud (Collector method) - v3.2.0
Tableau Cloud (Collector method) - v3.3.0
Tableau Cloud (Collector method) - v3.4.0
Tableau Cloud (Collector method) - v3.5.0
Tableau Cloud (Collector method) - v3.6.0

Tableau Server (via Collector method)

Tableau Server (Collector method) - v2.0.0
Tableau Server (Collector method) - v3.0.0
Tableau Server (Collector method) - v3.2.0
Tableau Server (Collector method) - v3.3.0
Tableau Server (Collector method) - v3.4.0
Tableau Server (Collector method) - v3.5.0
Tableau Server (Collector method) - v3.6.0

MySQL (via Collector method)

MySQL (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Redshift (via Collector method)

Redshift (via Collector method) - v3.1.0
Redshift (via Collector method) - v3.0.0
Redshift (via Collector method) - v2.0.0

Oracle Database (via Collector method)

Oracle Database (via Collector method) - v3.2.4
Oracle Database (via Collector method) - v3.2.0
Oracle Database (via Collector method) - v3.1.0
Oracle Database (via Collector method) - v3.0.0
Oracle Database (via Collector method) - v2.0.0

Power BI (via Collector method)

Power BI (via Collector method) - v3.3.4
Power BI (via Collector method) - v3.2.1
Power BI (via Collector method) - v3.2.0
Power BI (via Collector method) - v3.1.0
Power BI (via Collector method) - v2.0.0

AWS RDS Postgres (via Collector method)

AWS RDS Postgres (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Azure Data Factory (via Collector method)

Azure Data Factory (via Collector method) - v3.1
Azure Data Factory (via Collector method) - v3.0

Azure Synapse (via Collector method)

Azure Synapse (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM (via Collector method)

Microsoft Dynamics (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Databricks (via Collector method)

Databricks (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Azure SQL (via Collector method)

Azure SQL (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Glue (via Collector method)

Glue (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Bytehouse (via Collector method)

Bytehouse (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Clickhouse (via Collector method)

Clickhouse (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Cognos (via Collector method)

Cognos (Collector method) - v3.0.0

DB2 (via Collector method)

DB2 (via Collector method) - v3.0.0
DB2 (via Collector method) - v3.1.0

DBT Cloud (via Collector method)

DBT Cloud (via Collector method) - v3.0.0
DBT Cloud (via Collector method) - v3.1.0
DBT Cloud (via Collector method) - v3.2.0
DBT Cloud (via Collector method) - v3.3.0

Greenplum (via Collector method)

Greenplum (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Hevo (via Collector method)

Hevo (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Hightouch (via Collector method)

Hightouch (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

IICS (via Collector method)

IICS (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

Informatica (via Collector method)

Informatica (via Collector method) - v3.0.4
Informatica (via Collector method) - v3.0.0
Informatica (via Collector method) - v2.0.0

Oracle Analytics Cloud (via Collector method)

Oracle Analytics (via Collector method) - v3.0.0
Oracle Analytics (via Collector method) - v3.0.4

Postgres (via Collector method)

Postgres (via Collector method) - v3.0.0
Postgres (via Collector method) - v3.0.2

Sensitive Data (e.g. PII) Scanner

Snowflake DMF (via Collector method)

Snowflake DMF (via Collector method) - v3.0.0

SSIS (via Collector method)

SSIS (Collector method) - v3.1.0
SSIS (Collector method) - v2.0.0

SSRS (via Collector method)

SSRS (Collector method) - v3.0.0
SSRS (Collector method) - v2.0.0

Teradata (via Collector method)

Teradata (via Collector method) - v3.0.0
Teradata (via Collector method) - v3.1.0
Teradata (via Collector method) - v3.2.0

ThoughtSpot (via Collector method)

ThoughtSpot (via Collector method) - v3.0.0
ThoughtSpot (via Collector method) - v3.0.2
ThoughtSpot (via Collector method) - v3.0.6

Custom interface - Data Quality

SAS (via Collector method)

SAS (Collector method) - v1.0.0

SSAS (via Collector method)

SSAS (Collector method) - v3.0.0

Direct Connect Method

Azure SQL (via Direct Connect method)
Azure Data Factory (via Direct Connect method)
Athena (via Direct Connect method)
BigQuery (via Direct Connect method)
Bytehouse (via Direct Connect method)
Clickhouse (via Direct Connect method)

dbt Cloud (via Direct Connect method)

Loading a full manifest.json for dbt (Cloud & Core)

dbt core self hosted (via Direct Connect method)
Fivetran (via Direct Connect method)

Great Expectations self hosted (via Direct Connect method)

Configuring the KADA Great Expectations Plugin

Greenplum (via Direct Connect method)
Hevo (via Direct Connect method)
Informatica Cloud IICS (via Direct Connect method)
Hightouch (via Direct Connect method)
MySQL (via Direct Connect method)

PowerBI (via Direct Connect method)

Adding Service Principal to Workspaces via Powershell
Power BI FAQs

Postgres (via Direct Connect method)
Redshift (via Direct Connect method)

Snowflake (via Direct Connect method)

Snowflake Data Metrics Functions
Setting up Snowflake Data Metrics Functions

SQL Server (via Direct Connect method)
Tableau Cloud (via Direct Connect method)
Tableau Server (via Direct Connect method)
Thoughtspot (via Direct Connect method)
Microsoft Dynamics 365 (via Direct Connect method)
Databricks (via Direct Connect method)

Integration Troubleshooting Guides

MySQL - Authentication plugin Error: Cannot connect to database

Manual Upload Method

Deactivating and Reactivating Manual Source

Host / Database Mapping
Merging duplicate database sources
JIRA Issue Management

API

API Guides
K Platform API Documentation

Network configuration
KADA MCP for Copilot Studio (Beta)

Admin Guides

How to create a collection instance linking rule
Setting up email
How to manually run a data load
Using the Merge Function
How to deactivate a source
Renaming a source
How to upload a file to the K landing directory
Metadata enrichment via API
Setup Source Access Request
Running a cataloguing workshop
Managing Reference/Local Accounts
Platform Settings
Batch Jobs
Administrator Queries
Kada Support - RACI Matrix

What's New

Release versions history
Integration Patch Releases

Troubleshooting & Support

Breadcrumbs

Integration Guides

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