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databricks Platform · Updated Jun 8, 2026

External lineage is now generally available

External lineage (formerly Bring Your Own Lineage) in Unity Catalog is now generally available.

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What it does

External lineage (formerly Bring Your Own Lineage) in Unity Catalog is now generally available. You can register assets that live outside Databricks, such as Salesforce or MySQL sources and Tableau or Power BI dashboards, so that a single lineage graph spans your full data flow. As part of this release, Lakeflow Connect managed ingestion pipelines now automatically record source lineage from source tables to their destination tables in Unity Catalog.

Why it matters

End to end source lineage supports data governance, discovery, and change management workflows for ingested data.

Key capabilities
Manual edits to the external
Manual edits to the external metadata object don't persist: The next pipeline update overwrites them with values derived from…
Pipelines that share a connection
Pipelines that share a connection share the same upstream lineage. If multiple pipelines use the same connection to ingest the…
Architecture
Databricks Platform → Platform
In short

External lineage (formerly Bring Your Own Lineage) in Unity Catalog is now generally available. You can register assets that live outside Databricks, such as Salesforce or MySQL sources and Tableau or Power BI dashboards, so that a single lineage graph spans…

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Key takeaway
External lineage (formerly Bring Your Own Lineage) in Unity Catalog is now generally available.
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