ASK YOUR ALATION CATALOGUE WHERE THE DATA LIVES.
Connect Alation to Menza and ask about data sources, tables, columns, tags and business terms in plain English — where a metric is defined, which tables carry a tag, who owns a source. Menza reads live through the official Alation API, and it's read-only, so your catalogue is never altered.
- Reads developer data
- Generates answers and insights
- Connects via the official API
What can Menza do with Alation?
Find the right table in seconds
Ask where revenue data actually lives and Menza reads live catalogue entries — tables, columns, descriptions — so analysts stop guessing between five similarly named candidates.
Keep business terms honest
Ask how a business term is defined and where it's used across sources, so 'active customer' means the same thing in every report that cites it.
Audit tags and ownership gaps
Ask which tables lack a steward, a description or the right tags, and Menza reads the live catalogue, turning governance reviews into a question rather than a project.
See these answers on your own Alation data.
Menza working with Alation.
Menza watches your Alation data and surfaces what's worth knowing the moment it spots it — the margins, stockouts, and trends you'd otherwise dig for. Read-only: it answers and flags, never changes your data.
Menzajust now417 tables across your warehouse sources have no steward assigned — 28% of the catalogue. Two recently added data sources account for most of them; their tables arrived without tags or descriptions.
Menza6m agoThe business term 'net revenue' is referenced across 34 tables in three data sources. Two sources define it after refunds and one before — the mismatch traces to a column added last quarter.
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Is my Alation data secure?
Your credentials are encrypted at rest and never exposed to the AI. Menza reads your data through the provider's official API using the access you grant, and you stay in control of what it can do — read-only by default, with any actions gated behind your approval.
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- Scoped access — you choose what Menza can see
- Read-only by default; any action needs your approval
- Credentials are encrypted and never shown to the AI
- Revoke access at any time
Alation questions, answered.
How does Menza connect to Alation?
You connect with your Alation API credentials — entered once, encrypted at rest, and never shown to the AI. Menza uses them server-side to query your instance through the official Alation API, so nothing needs exporting from the catalogue.
What can Menza answer about my Alation data?
Anything catalogued: data sources, tables, columns, tags, business terms and users. Ask which tables hold customer PII tags, where a business term is applied, which sources a team owns, or what a column actually contains.
Is my Alation data safe with Menza?
Yes. Your credentials are encrypted, never exposed to the AI, and Menza only reads what they grant. This connector is read-only — Menza never edits catalogue entries, tags or terms, so your metadata stays exactly as your stewards curated it.
Does Menza read the underlying data or just the catalogue?
Just the catalogue. Through Alation, Menza sees metadata — table and column names, descriptions, tags, terms and ownership — not the rows inside your warehouse. It tells you where data lives and what it means, without touching the data itself.