Authenticate SSO credentials to query data

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πŸ€“ Who can do this? Any non-guest user with SSO credentials for the connection.

Once your connection admins have configured SSO authentication, you can query data using your SSO credentials. Atlan currently supports the following connectors for SSO authentication:

πŸ’ͺ Did you know? Connections that require you to provide SSO credentials have a small icon next to them. If the connection you want to query has no icon, you can query it with its default shared credentials. You only need to authenticate for connections with this icon.

Set up your SSO credentials

Atlan supports SSO authentication for querying data from the following connections:

Google BigQuery

 

To set up your SSO credentials for a Google BigQuery connection:

  1. From the left menu of any screen, click Insights.
  2. Under the Explorer tab on the left, use the dropdown to select the Google BigQuery connection that requires SSO credentials.
  3. An Authorizing dialog will appear and you will be redirected to sign in with your Google account. From the corresponding screen, click Allow to enable authentication.
  4. Once authorization is successful, close the Authorizing dialog to return to the query editor.

You can now run queries using your SSO credentials! πŸŽ‰

Snowflake

 

To set up your Snowflake OAuth credentials for a Snowflake connection:

  1. From the left menu of any screen, click Insights.
  2. Under the Explorer tab on the left, use the dropdown to select the Snowflake connection that requires Snowflake OAuth credentials.
  3. An Authorizing dialog will appear. Once authorization is successful, close the Authorizing dialog to return to the query editor.
  4. (Optional) To change roles and warehouses, click the connection name in the left menu or the Editor context tab with the connection name:
    1. For Role, click the Select role dropdown to change roles.
    2. For Warehouse, click the Select warehouse dropdown to change warehouses. 

You can now run queries using your Snowflake OAuth credentials! πŸŽ‰

Amazon Redshift

 

To set up your Okta SSO credentials for an Amazon Redshift connection:

  1. From the left menu of any screen, click Insights.
  2. Under the Explorer tab on the left, use the dropdown to select the Amazon Redshift connection that requires SSO credentials.
  3. A Set up SSO authentication for Redshift dialog will appear. Click Get started to set up your SSO credentials for the connection:
    1. For Authentication, Okta is the default selection.
    2. For Username, enter your Okta username.
    3. For Password, enter the password for your Okta username.
    4. Click the Test Authentication button to confirm connectivity.
    5. Once authentication is successful, click Done.
  4. Close the SSO authentication completed dialog to return to the query editor.

You can now run queries using your Okta SSO credentials! πŸŽ‰

Remove your SSO credentials

To remove your SSO credentials for a connection:

  1. From the left menu of any screen, click Insights.
  2. Under the Explorer tab on the left, use the dropdown to select the connection with SSO authentication enabled.
  3. From the upper right of the query editor, click the Editor context tab with the connection name.
  4. In the Editor context dialog, hover over the timestamp and then click Log out.
  5. In the Log out from Insights dialog, click Log out to confirm.
πŸ’ͺ Did you know? You can refer to troubleshooting connector-specific SSO authentication to troubleshoot any errors.

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