Governance workflows in Knowledge Catalog support batch metadata change requests
Governance workflows in Knowledge Catalog support batch metadata change requests. You can group up to 250 create, update, and delete operations for entries and entry links into a single change request and curate batch proposals generated by the enrichment agent before approval. This feature is available in preview .
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[In preview] Public Preview: Extend immutability for PITR backups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
With this enhancement, you have the ability to lock your retention to the configured PITR retention, beyond the default 7 days of immutable backups that are already available. This is especially useful for financial customers who typically have 35 days of
UI improvements now generally available for PD Reliability Platform customers
Customers on PD Reliability Platform now have an improved UI experience, including: Consolidated settings: Brings all your configuration and admin settings together in one place. New nav: Provides streamlined access to your most important capabilities. Your Subscription: Shows where the opportunities are to shift work off humans and onto AI and automation.
Claude auto-connect (beta) for PagerDuty MCP Server now in Early Access
With Claude auto-connect, members with a matching PagerDuty account are connected to PagerDuty in Claude automatically, with no sign-in screen and no identity provider (IdP) configuration. Members act as themselves in PagerDuty, with the permissions they already have there.
Dependabot version updates support Agent Package Manager
You can now keep your AI agent skills, prompts, and instructions up to date with Dependabot version updates for Agent Package Manager (APM) . Dependabot opens pull requests to update supported git dependencies declared in apm.yml and regenerates apm.lock.yaml when it’s present. This support covers version updates, not security updates.
Okta connector is available in Beta
The managed Okta connector is now available in Beta in Databricks Lakeflow Connect. Workspace admins can enable Lakeflow Connect for Okta on the Previews page . Use the connector to ingest identity and access data from Okta into Databricks, including users, groups, group memberships, app integrations, devices, policies, and administrator roles.
Trigger Lakeflow Jobs when upstream jobs complete (Beta)
You can now run a Lakeflow Job when one or more upstream jobs complete, including across workspaces attached to the same Unity Catalog metastore. Configure dependencies on the downstream job. See Trigger jobs when upstream jobs complete .
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Knowledge Studio in Knowledge Catalog is available in Preview
Knowledge Studio in Knowledge Catalog is available in Preview . Knowledge Studio lets you explore data assets and semantic relationships using natural language and an interactive context graph, run automated enrichment tasks to generate and curate metadata from schemas, query logs, and enterprise knowledge signals, and package curated domain knowledge into...
Dataplex Universal Catalog adds support for Looker data lineage
Data lineage support for Looker (Google Cloud core) is now generally available. This includes visualization of data flows from BigQuery through the Looker semantic layer to downstream assets.
Data products in Knowledge Catalog now support Looker (Google Cloud core) assets
Data products in Knowledge Catalog now support Looker (Google Cloud core) assets. You can package, govern, and share Looker (Google Cloud core) dashboards, dashboard elements, Looks, Explores, and LookML projects, models, and views in a data product using Google Group mirroring and IAM access controls. This feature is generally available .
Knowledge Catalog support for importing dbt metadata is now generally available and includes the following...
Knowledge Catalog support for importing dbt metadata is now generally available and includes the following updates: You can import metadata from dbt Cloud job runs using the dbt Cloud interface, the dbt platform CLI, or the dbt Administrative API and webhooks.
Data products now support configuring a default IAM role in an access group
Data products now support configuring a default IAM role in an access group. The default role, once configured, is automatically granted on all packaged and supported assets in the data product. Data product owners can override the default role for individual assets.
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog
Metadata for BigQuery Graph is now automatically ingested and searchable in Knowledge Catalog. This feature is available in preview . For more information, see Knowledge Catalog overview .
Knowledge Catalog data domains enter preview
Data domains logically organize resources across an enterprise so teams can discover and curate data at scale.
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview
Knowledge Catalog support for importing metadata from dbt Core and MetricFlow is available in Preview . You can use the gcloud alpha dataplex dbt metadata-jobs command to extract and import technical, semantic (MetricFlow), operational, data quality, and lineage metadata from dbt Core artifacts into Knowledge Catalog.