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Version: 1.3.0

AI Documentation

Feature AvailabilitySelf-Hosted DataHub DataHub Cloud

With AI-powered documentation, you can automatically generate documentation for tables and columns.

Prerequisites​

As of DataHub Cloud v0.3.12, AI documentation is in public beta. Admins (or users with the "Manage Platform Settings" privilege) can enable it from settings.

Usage​

Ensure you have permissions to edit the dataset description. No other configuration is required - just hit "Generate" on any table or column in the UI.

All AI-generated documentation that has not been reviewed by a human will be marked as such with the sparkle icon.

How it works​

Generating good documentation requires a holistic understanding of the data. Information we take into account includes, but is not limited to:

  • Dataset name and any existing documentation
  • Column name, type, description, and sample values
  • Lineage relationships to upstream and downstream assets
  • Metadata about other related assets

Data privacy: Your metadata is not sent to any third-party LLMs. We use AWS Bedrock internally, which means all metadata remains within the DataHub Cloud AWS account. We do not fine-tune on customer data.

Limitations​

  • AI documentation is not available for tables with more than 3000 columns (in v0.3.12 the limit was 1000 columns; prior to v0.3.12, it was 100 columns).
  • This feature is powered by LLMs, which can produce inaccurate results. While we've taken steps to reduce the likelihood of hallucinations, they may still occur.