Integration · Data quality
Apache Atlas + OrchestrAI
Catalog exported 2026-09-02 · Apache Atlas website
Search Apache Atlas entities and trace lineage from chat, read-only against your metadata catalog.
OrchestrAI exposes 3 Apache Atlas operations: 3 are low-risk (read-only or low-impact).
What teams use it for
Data governance teams use OrchestrAI to look up an Apache Atlas entity, pull its attributes, and walk upstream and downstream lineage while investigating a broken report. Because all three Atlas operations are low risk, they run without a confirmation step and never change catalog contents. There is no operation to create entities, edit classifications, or assign glossary terms, so catalog edits still go through the Atlas UI or REST API.
Every Apache Atlas operation, with its risk level
| Operation | What it does | Risk | Step-level approval |
|---|---|---|---|
Get Atlas Entity |
Get Apache Atlas entity details | Low risk | No |
Get Atlas Lineage |
Get Apache Atlas entity lineage | Low risk | No |
Search Atlas Entities |
Search Apache Atlas entities | Low risk | No |
Risk tiers come from the catalog: low is read-only or low-impact, medium creates resources and is reversible, high modifies existing resources, destructive may lose data. Every plan that creates or changes resources is shown with its cost estimate and waits for your confirmation. Operations marked with a step-level approval pause again on their own step. Destructive operations require a typed risk phrase.
What you connect
A Apache Atlas credential (stored as atlas).
Connected-service tokens are envelope-encrypted with a per-record key wrapped by a cloud KMS.
Prompts that work
- Find the Atlas entity for the hive table sales.fact_orders and show its owner and classification
- Trace lineage downstream from the fact_orders table two hops
- Search Atlas for any entity with PII in its classification
Before anything runs
Every mutation shows its plan, cost estimate, and blast radius, then waits for your confirmation. Destructive operations require a typed risk phrase. Credentials are minted per run through OIDC federation and discarded afterward; nothing you create here is invisible later, because every resource lands in the desired-state ledger where drift is detected and can be converged. Details on the security page.
Frequently asked questions
- Can OrchestrAI update classifications in Apache Atlas?
- No. Coverage is read-only: search entities, get entity details, and get lineage. Classification changes are made in Atlas directly.
- Does querying Apache Atlas through OrchestrAI require approval?
- No. All Atlas operations are low risk and read-only, so they run immediately without a confirmation step.
- How does OrchestrAI authenticate to Apache Atlas?
- You add a Apache Atlas credential once in the connections screen. It is envelope-encrypted with a per-record key wrapped by a cloud KMS and is only decrypted inside the run that needs it.
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Try it on your own account
Connect your cloud read-only and see your resources, drift, and costs before anything runs. $5 minimum to start. Unused credits refunded in your first 14 days.
Unused credits refunded in your first 14 days.