Metadata

Metadata is CredVault's catalog for understanding data across your organization. Open Metadata from the dashboard sidebar to explore cataloged assets, inspect their descriptions and owners, and follow relationships between them.

Get started

1. Sign in to CredVault and open Metadata in the sidebar.
2. Use Explore to search for a database, table, dashboard, or other cataloged asset.
3. Open an asset to review its description, schema, ownership, and related information.
4. Use Lineage in Metadata to inspect recorded relationships between assets.

New accounts may see an empty catalog until an administrator connects a data source and runs ingestion. An empty catalog does not mean that your database cluster or records are missing.

Add a data source

An administrator can use Settings inside Metadata to configure a service connection and its ingestion workflow. The connection must be able to reach the source and have permission to read the metadata being cataloged. Once ingestion finishes, the discovered assets appear in Explore.

Catalog access follows your CredVault account and tenant permissions. If you cannot see an expected source, ask your organization administrator to check the connection, ingestion status, and your access.

The product tour on the Metadata welcome screen runs inside the Metadata page. It is a guided introduction to the catalog interface.