Cloudera Data Lineage

Metadata management and automated data lineage for enterprise data estates.

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Build trust and take control of your entire data estate

Cloudera Data Lineage (formerly Octopai) is the only SaaS-based solution built to navigate the most complex cloud, on-premises, and hybrid data environments instantly and automatically.

Harvest every data source, ETL process, script, and BI report automatically (without manual tagging), delivering a complete, up-to-date lineage graph.

Empower technical data teams and business users to trace any issue back to its origin or assess the impact of an upcoming change in seconds.

Give IT and business users interactive lineage diagrams, audit trails, and data-quality metrics, providing evidence for governance and regulatory audits.

Key features

Automated metadata harvestingAutomated data lineage mappingData discoverability Deep, multi-layered lineageHybrid compatibility & multi-dimensional lineage Inferred lineage & augmented links

Rapidly collect metadata, scripts, code, and dependencies with zero manual effort—improving efficiency and reducing risk across your entire data stack.

Map data flows across systems by analyzing transformations, dependencies, and relationships—all done automatically.

Empower users with intuitive search, enriched metadata, and contextual insights to find and trust data faster.

Create complex semantic layers by bringing together data types from different sources within your visualizations, add business logic and filters, or incorporate data from other visual applications.

Support for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems—complete with cross-system, intra-system, and granular lineage.

Fill gaps with inferred relationships and enhance lineage with contextual metadata for unmatched visibility.

Gain unprecedented visibility into all your data flows

With more than 60 native integrations and support for non-native systems through our universal connector, Cloudera Data Lineage offers the broadest coverage of any automated data lineage solution.

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See how data teams are winning with Cloudera Data Lineage

As we refine our internal policies, Octopai has emerged as a vital tool for our analysts' data documentation. It's now a non-negotiable milestone for process approval. With Octopai, our team are setting a new standard for data management excellence.

—Swaranjali Wadkar, Data Governance Analyst, Group Reinsurance & Group Actuarial, Ecclesiastical

Save time and build trust across data teams

50% spend more than 5 hours a week on data flows tracing.

75% wait as long as a few weeks to find the source of error in a report.

90% of manual work was saved when conducting impact analysis.

Source: Dataversity and Octopai Survey, 2023

For Technical Users

Automatically capture and visualize dependencies across databases, ETL jobs, and BI outputs, providing an end-to-end view of data movement that lets engineers:

Trace failures or bottlenecks in seconds.
Eliminate redundant processes and data copies.
Enforce consistent quality rules across pipelines.
Accelerate delivery of new data products.
Preserve full audit trails for compliance.

For Business Users

Empower faster, more informed decision making across the company with lineage-based dashboards that let non-technical stakeholders:

Trust the numbers by providing visibility.
Reduce “black box” concerns.
Trace key metrics to their foundational data sources.
Investigate upstream factors that contribute to changing KPIs.