Amundsen Roadmap¶
The following roadmap gives an overview of what we are currently working on and what we want to tackle next. This helps potential contributors understand the current status of your project and where it’s going next, as well as giving a chance to be part of the planning.
Amundsen Mission¶
To organize all information about data and make it universally actionable
Vision for 2021¶
Centralize a comprehensive and actionable map of all our data resources that can be leveraged to solve a growing number of use cases and workflows
Short Term - Our Current focus¶
Native lineage integration¶
What: We want to create a native lineage integration in Amundsen, to better surface how data assets interact with each other.
Status: designs complete
Integrate with Data Quality system¶
What: Integrate with different data quality systems to provide quality score.
Status: in progress
Improve search ranking¶
What: Overhaul search ranking to improve results.
Status: planning
Show distinct column values¶
What: When a column has a limited set of possible values, we want to make then easily discoverable.
Status: implementation started
Neptune Databuilder support¶
What: Supports Databuilder ingestion for Neptune (FsNeo4jCSVLoader, FsNeputuneCSVLoader and various Neptune components). Detail could be found in RFC-13.
Status: implementation started
RDS Proxy Support¶
What: Support RDS as another type of proxy for both metadata and databuilder. Detail could be found in RFC-10
Status: Planning
Mid Term - Our Next steps¶
Curated navigation experience¶
What: Currently Amundsen’s experience is very focussed on search. However, especially for new users, an experience where they are able to navigate through the data hierarchy is very important. This item proposes to revamp the navigational experience in Amundsen (currently, barebones - based on tags) to do justice to the user need to browse through data sets when they don’t know what to even search for.
Status: planning
Notifications when a table evolves¶
What: Notify users in Amundsen (akin to Facebook notifications or similar) when a table evolves. Owners of data and consumers of data will likely need to be notified of different things.
Status: planning has not started
Commonly joined tables / browsing the data model¶
What: As a data user, I would like to see commonly joined tables and how to join them. One option would be to show commonly joined tables and showing example join queries. Another option would be to provide a navigational experience for data model, showing foreign keys and which tables they come from.
Status: planning has not started
Push ingest API¶
What: Possible through Kafka extractor, though Kafka topic schema is not well defined. And it requires client side SDK to support message pushing.
Status: 50%
Granular Access Control¶
What: we want to have a more granular control of the access. For example, only certain types of people would be able to see certain types of metadata/functionality
Status: not planned
Versioning system¶
What: We want to create a versioning system for our indexed resources, to be able to index different versions of the same resource. This is especially required for machine learning purposes.
Status: not planned
Index Processes¶
What: we want to index ETLs and pipelines from our Machine Learning Engine
Status: not planned
Index Teams¶
What: We want to add teams pages to enable users to see what are the important tables and dashboard a team uses
Status: not planned
Index Services¶
What: With our microservices architecture, we want to index services and show how these services interact with data artifacts
Status: not planned
Index S3 buckets¶
What: add these new resource types to our data map and create resource pages for them
Status: not planned
Index Pub/Sub systems¶
What: We want to make our pub/sub systems discoverable
Status: not planned
How to Get Involved¶
Let us know in the Slack channel if you are interested in taking a stab at leading the development of one of these features.
You can also jump right in by tackling one of our issues labeled as ‘help wanted’ or, if you are new to Amundsen, try one of our ‘good first issue’ tickets.