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Overview

What is the Data Experience α​

The Data Experience α provides visibility of your data ecosystem by integrating it with core parts of Portal so Data Practitioners and Developers can easily find and manage datasets. The Data Experience enables you to ingest dataset metadata from different sources and model them in Backstage's Software Catalog.

Who is the Data Experience α for?​

Data Platform Teams​

You've seen Backstage successfully rolled out by your tech champion and wonder if you can use it to solve your own data challenges. You wish your company had more context about their data ecosystem and want to reduce the dependencies on your team. You want to promote best practices, information, and tools and processes to boost the productivity of your Data Practitioners.

Data Owners​

You own a bunch of datasets and wish you had an interface to see everything in one place. Or maybe you're part of a backend team that already uses Portal, but also produces and owns datasets that you need to manage.

Data Consumers​

You hope to discover datasets that are available across your organization for consumption and need to identify a given dataset's owner to learn more about it.

Why use the Data Experience α?​

  • Improve ownership and information about your datasets
  • Centralize view of software and data in the Software Catalog
  • Reduce the silo between your Data Platform and IDP
  • Increase adoption of Backstage by expanding its value and use cases to Data Practitioners

Core Data Experience α Plugins​

If you'd like to begin using the experience, define your configuration and click 'start' on the Data Experience card, the catalog module, and the search module. This is done by an admin in the Config Manager.

Grouped Under 'Data Experience' in Config Manager

  • @spotify/backstage-plugin-data-registry
  • @spotify/backstage-plugin-data-registry-backend
  • @spotify/backstage-plugin-data-registry-backend-module-redshift
  • @spotify/backstage-plugin-data-registry-backend-module-snowflake
  • @spotify/backstage-plugin-data-registry-backend-module-bigquery
  • @spotify/backstage-plugin-data-registry-backend-module-dbt

A Module under 'Catalog' in Config Manager

  • @spotify/backstage-plugin-catalog-backend-module-data-registry-provider

A Module under 'Search' in Config Manager

  • @spotify/backstage-plugin-search-backend-module-data-registry