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Notifications

Notifications from Apache Atlas

Apache Atlas sends notifications about metadata changes to Kafka topic named ATLAS_ENTITIES . Applications interested in metadata changes can monitor for these notifications. For example, Apache Ranger processes these notifications to authorize data access based on classifications.

Notifications - V2: Apache Atlas version 1.0

Apache Atlas 1.0 sends notifications for following operations on metadata.

Notification includes the following data.

Notifications - V1: Apache Atlas version 0.8.x and earlier

Notifications from Apache Atlas version 0.8.x and earlier have content formatted differently, as detailed below.

Operations

Notification includes the following data.

Apache Atlas 1.0 can be configured to send notifications in older version format, instead of the latest version format. This can be helpful in deployments that are not yet ready to process notifications in latest version format. To configure Apache Atlas 1.0 to send notifications in earlier version format, please set following configuration in atlas-application.properties:

Notifications to Apache Atlas

Apache Atlas can be notified of metadata changes and lineage via notifications to Kafka topic named ATLAS_HOOK. Atlas hooks for Apache Hive/Apache HBase/Apache Storm/Apache Sqoop use this mechanism to notify Apache Atlas of events of interest.