Dataplex Universal Catalog

Catalogue, lineage and data quality across the Google Cloud data estate.

Provider: gcp
Kind: Data catalog
Category: Data
Official docs: https://docs.cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/about-data-lineage

Properties · 2 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
accessPolicyEnforcement	boolean	—	no	—	inherited
autoMetadataIngestion · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
classification	boolean	—	no	—	inherited
lineage	boolean	—	no	—	▸ false
lineageRetentionDays · component property	integer	—	no	30	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
scanSchedule	enum	manual \| daily \| weekly	no	—	inherited
sourceCount	integer	—	no	—	inherited

Rules that apply · 0

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No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

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nodes:
  - { id: "dataplex", component: "google-dataplex" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Dataplex Universal Catalog, renamed Knowledge Catalog in April 2026: the metadata catalogue for the
3# Google Cloud data estate. "Knowledge Catalog overview" and "About data lineage": technical metadata
4# is ingested automatically, lineage requires the Data Lineage API and is retained for 30 days.
5schemaVersion: "1"
6type: "component"
7id: "google-dataplex"
8kind: "data-catalog"
9provider: "gcp"
10docs: "https://docs.cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/about-data-lineage"
11defaults:
12  managed: true
13  lineage: false
14properties:
15  autoMetadataIngestion:
16    type: "boolean"
17    default: true
18  lineageRetentionDays:
19    type: "integer"
20    default: 30

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/google-dataplex.md