Tokern Lineage Engine

Tokern Lineage Engine is fast and easy to use application to collect, visualize and analyze column-level data lineage in databases, data warehouses and data lakes in AWS and GCP.

Tokern Lineage helps you browse column-level data lineage

visually using kedro-viz
analyze lineage graphs programmatically using the powerful networkx graph library

Resources

Demo of Tokern Lineage App

Checkout an example data lineage notebook.
Check out the post on using data lineage for cost control for an example of how data lineage can be used in production.

Quick Start

Install a demo of using Docker and Docker Compose

Download the docker-compose file from Github repository.

# in a new directory run
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tokern/data-lineage/master/install-manifests/docker-compose/catalog-demo.yml
# or run
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tokern/data-lineage/master/install-manifests/docker-compose/tokern-lineage-engine.yml -o docker-compose.yml

Run docker-compose

docker-compose up -d

Check that the containers are running.

docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                    CREATED        STATUS       PORTS                    NAMES
3f4e77845b81   tokern/data-lineage-viz:latest   ...   4 hours ago    Up 4 hours   0.0.0.0:8000->80/tcp     tokern-data-lineage-visualizer
1e1ce4efd792   tokern/data-lineage:latest       ...   5 days ago     Up 5 days                             tokern-data-lineage
38be15bedd39   tokern/demodb:latest             ...   2 weeks ago    Up 2 weeks                            tokern-demodb

Try out Tokern Lineage App

Head to http://localhost:8000/ to open the Tokern Lineage app

Install Tokern Lineage Engine

# in a new directory run
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tokern/data-lineage/master/install-manifests/docker-compose/tokern-lineage-engine.yml
# or run
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tokern/data-lineage/master/install-manifests/docker-compose/catalog-demo.yml -o tokern-lineage-engine.yml

Run docker-compose

docker-compose up -d

If you want to use an external Postgres database, change the following parameters in tokern-lineage-engine.yml:

CATALOG_HOST
CATALOG_USER
CATALOG_PASSWORD
CATALOG_DB

You can also override default values using environement variables.

CATALOG_HOST=... CATALOG_USER=... CATALOG_PASSWORD=... CATALOG_DB=... docker-compose -f ... up -d

For more advanced usage of environment variables with docker-compose, refer to docker-compose docs

Pro-tip

If you want to connect to a database in the host machine, set

CATALOG_HOST: host.docker.internal # For mac or windows
#OR
CATALOG_HOST: 172.17.0.1 # Linux

Supported Technologies

Postgres
AWS Redshift
Snowflake

Coming Soon

SparkSQL
Presto

Documentation

For advanced usage, please refer to data-lineage documentation

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