Getting started with Atlan

Introduction

Atlan University

If you prefer, we also have video-based introductory courses:

• Technical possibilities (10 mins)
• Key concepts (30 mins)
• Automating enrichment (45 mins)
• Getting started with code (30 mins)

Welcome to our developer portal! 🏠

If you are just starting to work with Atlan, you might want a brief introduction to its important technical concepts. Being familiar with these will help you make the most of integrating with Atlan — irrespective of the mechanism or language you use to do so:

• Assets are the most important concept to understand in Atlan
• Tags enrich and group together assets
• Custom metadata allows you to extend assets with your own information

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Jump right in

Alternatively, if you want to jump straight into examples, you can search (upper-right) or use the top-level menu:

• Snippets — small, atomic examples of single-step use cases.
• Patterns — walkthroughs of common multi-step implementation patterns.
• Samples — documentation for publicly-available samples of reusable, end-to-end code.
• Reference materials fully explain all possibilities for:
  • Searching for metadata in Atlan
  • Events triggered from Atlan
• Types — describe every field and relationship available on each asset.