Streamline your data governance with Matia’s comprehensive tagging system. Learn how to create, manage, and leverage tags to classify your data assets and enhance discoverability across your entire data stack.
Matia’s tagging system provides a powerful solution for classifying and organizing your data assets, making them easier to discover, manage, and govern. Tags help you identify important characteristics of data assets, group different assets together, and apply granular access policies against those groupings.
To begin using tags:
Matia supports three main types of tags:
Matia Tags are native tags that you can create via API or directly within the platform to categorize any resource.
To create a Matia Tag:
Matia automatically imports tags from your connected Snowflake instances, allowing you to search, filter, and use existing Snowflake classification within Matia.
When you connect to Snowflake:
To enable and extract Snowflake tags during metadata extraction, please ensure the following prerequisites are met:
1. Enterprise Edition of Snowflake
The Snowflake tags feature is available only in the Enterprise Edition (or higher) of Snowflake. Please confirm with your Snowflake administrator that your account is on the correct edition.
2. Grant Access to Account Usage Views
The user associated with Matia’s metadata extraction must be able to query the following views in Snowflake’s ACCOUNT_USAGE
schema:
SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.TAGS
SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.TAG_REFERENCES
To grant the required access to your extraction role (referred to below as {MATIA_ROLE}
), execute the following statements as a user with the ACCOUNTADMIN
role:
Be sure to replace {MATIA_ROLE}
with the actual role used by your Matia connector.
3. Automatic Metadata Extraction
Once the role has the required permissions and Enterprise Edition is confirmed, tag metadata will be extracted automatically during regular metadata sync. No extra configuration is necessary.
If you need help assigning the role or troubleshooting access, please reach out to Matia Support.
Matia syncs tags from both dbt Core and dbt Cloud projects, bringing your dbt metadata directly into your data catalog.
When you connect to dbt:
To tag a resource in Matia:
Tags make it easier to find and organize your data assets:
Tags are particularly valuable for: