Creating technical lineage for Fivetran via Edge (private preview)

This topic provides an overview of the necessary steps to create a technical lineage for Fivetran on Edge.

Requirements and permissions

  • Use Collibra Platform 2025.11 or later.
  • Use Edge 2025.10.84 or newer.
  • Ensure that your network firewall allows outbound HTTPS traffic to the Fivetran API endpoint at https://api.fivetran.com.
  • Register your data sources by using JDBC connectors or integrate your data sources, so that Collibra Data Lineage can stitch the data objects in your technical lineage to the assets in Data Catalog. For more information, go to About registering and integrating data sources in Catalog.
    Currently, technical lineage for Fivetran is supported for the following data sources:
    • Azure Synapse
    • Databricks
    • Google BigQuery
    • Google Sheets, MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redshift.
    Support for additional data sources are to be added later.
  •  A global role with the following global permissions:
    • Catalog Author (Standard)
      • Catalog > Advanced Data Type > Add
      • Catalog > Advanced Data Type > Remove
      • Catalog > Advanced Data Type > Update
    • Edge integration engineer (Standard)
      • Manage connections and capabilities
      • View Edge connections and capabilities
    • Technical lineage
  • Ensure that you have the following access and information from Fivetran:
    • A valid API key and secret. The user associated with the key must have at least the Account Reviewer role to list connectors and destinations.
    • Optionally, if you want to filter the lineage metadata to collect and manage how data objects are stitched, gather the following information:

Steps

  1. Enable technical lineage via Edge (private preview).
  2. Create a Fivetran connection to an Edge or Collibra Cloud site (private preview)
  3. Add a technical lineage for Fivetran capability to an Edge or Collibra Cloud site (private preview)
  4. Synchronize technical lineage for Fivetran (private preview)
  5. View the summary of an technical lineage for Fivetran synchronization (in preview)

What's next

View the technical lineage.