How to crawl Microsoft Azure Data Factory

Once you have configured the Microsoft Azure Data Factory permissions, you can establish a connection between Atlan and Microsoft Azure Data Factory.

To crawl metadata from Microsoft Azure Data Factory, review the order of operations and then complete the following steps.

Select the source

To select Microsoft Azure Data Factory as your source:

1. In the top right of any screen in Atlan, navigate to +New and click New workflow.
2. From the Marketplace page, click Azure Data Factory Assets.
3. In the right panel, click Setup Workflow.

Provide credentials

To enter your Microsoft Azure Data Factory credentials:

1. For Extraction method, Direct is the default selection.
2. For Authentication, Service Principal is the default selection.
3. For Client ID, enter the application (client) ID you copied for the service principal.
4. For Client Secret, enter the client secret you copied for the service principal.
5. For Tenant ID, enter the directory (tenant) ID you copied for the service principal.
6. Click the Test Authentication button to confirm connectivity to Microsoft Azure Data Factory.
7. Once authentication is successful, navigate to the bottom of the screen and click Next.

Configure the connection

To complete the Microsoft Azure Data Factory connection configuration:

1. Provide a Connection Name that represents your source environment. For example, you might use values like production,development,gold, or analytics.
2. (Optional) To change the users who are able to manage this connection, change the users or groups listed under Connection Admins.
   🚨 Careful! If you do not specify any user or group, no one will be able to manage the connection — not even admins.
3. Navigate to the bottom of the screen and click Next to proceed.

Run the crawler

To run the Microsoft Azure Data Factory crawler, after completing the steps above:

1. To check for any permissions or other configuration issues before running the crawler, click Preflight checks.
2. You can either:
   • To run the crawler once immediately, at the bottom of the screen, click the Run button.
   • To schedule the crawler to run hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly, at the bottom of the screen, click the Schedule & Run button.

Once the crawler has completed running, you will see the assets on Atlan's asset page! 🎉