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  • Introduction
    • Overview
    • Why Alvin?
    • Connect your systems
      • Data Warehouse
        • BigQuery
          • Provision source system credentials
          • Provision with GCloud CLI
        • Snowflake
        • Databricks
      • Business Intelligence
        • Looker
      • Orchestration
        • dbt
      • SSO (Single Sign-On)
    • Security & compliance
    • Types of metadata
    • FAQ
  • Cost Monitoring
    • Introduction to Cost Monitoring
    • Compute
    • Storage
  • BI Query Optimizer
    • Introduction to Query Optimizer
    • How does it work?
    • Getting started
  • Workflow automation
    • Introduction to Workflow Automation
    • Events definitions
    • Configuring Workflows
  • Anomaly Detection
    • Anomaly Detection
  • Exploring Metadata
    • Lineage
      • Depth of lineage
    • Impact Analysis
    • Entities
    • Entity View
    • Metadata Warehouse
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  • Additional connections
  1. Introduction

Connect your systems

Last updated 8 months ago

First connection

The first connection you have to make is to your Data Warehouse – this is where we process most of the metadata from. To do so, follow the steps for creating a service account in your environment depending on your provider:

Then, from the menu on the left choose the Connections page and click on the Add platform button.

Choose the right provider and paste in the service JSON. If you’re adding a second environment from a platform that’s already connected, you can edit the Names of your projects. We suggest you keep them as is for the first one.

Test the connection

You can go ahead and test the connection and if it works correctly, we will load your data in the next couple hours.

If there's an error, please contact our support through the Product Chat. For Databricks, make sure the SQL Warehouse is up and running, before testing the connection, otherwise it might take a long time to validate the connection.

Additional connections

After you've connected your primary Data Warehouse, follow the same steps for your Business Intelligence and orchestration tools. Simple as that!

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