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Version: 1.3.0

Superset

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Important Capabilities​

CapabilityStatusNotes
Detect Deleted Entities✅Enabled by default via stateful ingestion.
Domains✅Enabled by domain config to assign domain_key.
Extract Tags✅Supported by default.
Table-Level Lineage✅Supported by default.

This plugin extracts the following:

  • Charts, dashboards, and associated metadata

See documentation for superset's /security/login at https://superset.apache.org/docs/rest-api for more details on superset's login api.

CLI based Ingestion​

Starter Recipe​

Check out the following recipe to get started with ingestion! See below for full configuration options.

For general pointers on writing and running a recipe, see our main recipe guide.

source:
  type: superset
  config:
    # Coordinates
    connect_uri: http://localhost:8088

    # Credentials
    username: user
    password: pass
    provider: ldap

sink:
  # sink configs

Config Details​

Note that a . is used to denote nested fields in the YAML recipe.

FieldDescription
connect_uri
string
Superset host URL.
Default: http://localhost:8088
database_alias
map(str,string)
display_uri
One of string, null
optional URL to use in links (if connect_uri is only for ingestion)
Default: None
ingest_charts
boolean
Enable to ingest charts.
Default: True
ingest_dashboards
boolean
Enable to ingest dashboards.
Default: True
ingest_datasets
boolean
Enable to ingest datasets.
Default: False
max_threads
integer
Max parallelism for API calls. Defaults to cpuCount or 40
options
object
Default: {}
password
One of string, null
Superset password.
Default: None
platform_instance
One of string, null
The instance of the platform that all assets produced by this recipe belong to. This should be unique within the platform. See https://docs.datahub.com/docs/platform-instances/ for more details.
Default: None
provider
string
Superset provider.
Default: db
timeout
integer
Timeout of single API call to superset.
Default: 10
username
One of string, null
Superset username.
Default: None
env
string
The environment that all assets produced by this connector belong to
Default: PROD
chart_pattern
AllowDenyPattern
A class to store allow deny regexes
chart_pattern.ignoreCase
One of boolean, null
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
dashboard_pattern
AllowDenyPattern
A class to store allow deny regexes
dashboard_pattern.ignoreCase
One of boolean, null
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
database_pattern
AllowDenyPattern
A class to store allow deny regexes
database_pattern.ignoreCase
One of boolean, null
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
dataset_pattern
AllowDenyPattern
A class to store allow deny regexes
dataset_pattern.ignoreCase
One of boolean, null
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
domain
map(str,AllowDenyPattern)
A class to store allow deny regexes
domain.key.allow
array
List of regex patterns to include in ingestion
Default: ['.*']
domain.key.allow.string
string
domain.key.ignoreCase
One of boolean, null
Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
Default: True
domain.key.deny
array
List of regex patterns to exclude from ingestion.
Default: []
domain.key.deny.string
string
stateful_ingestion
One of StatefulStaleMetadataRemovalConfig, null
Superset Stateful Ingestion Config.
Default: None
stateful_ingestion.enabled
boolean
Whether or not to enable stateful ingest. Default: True if a pipeline_name is set and either a datahub-rest sink or datahub_api is specified, otherwise False
Default: False
stateful_ingestion.fail_safe_threshold
number
Prevents large amount of soft deletes & the state from committing from accidental changes to the source configuration if the relative change percent in entities compared to the previous state is above the 'fail_safe_threshold'.
Default: 75.0
stateful_ingestion.remove_stale_metadata
boolean
Soft-deletes the entities present in the last successful run but missing in the current run with stateful_ingestion enabled.
Default: True

If you were using database_alias in one of your other ingestions to rename your databases to something else based on business needs you can rename them in superset also

source:
  type: superset
  config:
    # Coordinates
    connect_uri: http://localhost:8088

    # Credentials
    username: user
    password: pass
    provider: ldap
    database_alias:
      example_name_1: business_name_1
      example_name_2: business_name_2

sink:
  # sink configs

Code Coordinates​

  • Class Name: datahub.ingestion.source.superset.SupersetSource
  • Browse on GitHub

Questions

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