Amundsen

Amundsen is an open-source data catalog and metadata engine designed to help organizations discover, understand, and trust their data. It serves as a central hub for data assets, allowing data professionals to quickly find relevant data for their analysis, models, and pipelines. The platform is built to benefit Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Software Engineers. It helps analysts and data scientists be more productive by breaking down data silos, providing immediate context, and showing how others are using the data. For engineers, it reduces interruptions by automatically sharing context, ensures the use of correct data in pipelines, and speeds up debugging by centralizing all table-related information. Amundsen achieves this by offering a PageRank-inspired search algorithm for data discovery, automated and curated metadata (descriptions, usage statistics, last updated times, data previews), and features for sharing context among co-workers. Users can update table and column descriptions, see frequently used or bookmarked data by peers, and view common queries or dashboards built on specific tables.