What we’re about
Data engineers and pipeline managers know that producing data lineage – end-to-end pipeline metadata instrumented at runtime or parsed at design time – is a heavy lift without a shared standard for lineage metadata. It requires duplication of effort across pipeline tooling, and deployment of new tools can break existing lineage workflows. Getting useful lineage can seem like a sisyphean task.
Enter OpenLineage, an increasingly adopted open standard for lineage metadata collection. It defines a generic model of run, job, and dataset entities identified using consistent naming strategies. The core lineage model is extensible by defining specific facets to enrich those entities.
