What is the Atlassian Data Lake?
The Atlassian Data Lake is a centralized database containing all your organization’s app data. It powers multiple experiences throughout Atlassian, and you can get direct access to the Data Lake’s data model from Analytics and data shares.
Data model available from Analytics
Only data for Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, Talent, Focus, Goals, and Atlassian Projects are available in the Atlassian Data Lake at this time. Data for more apps are coming soon.
By connecting to the Data Lake, you get access to a structured data set, which is simple to query in Analytics. And because all your app data is available, it gives you quality information to filter and transform your data as you see fit. You can even blend data across apps and sites to create and customize dashboards and reveal meaningful insights about how teams across your organization use your Atlassian apps.
Learn how to connect to the Atlassian Data Lake.
Data model available from data shares
Data shares let you read and extract data from the pre-transformed data model of the Data Lake, allowing you to transform the data as your organization sees fit and to integrate that data with your infrastructure. Read more about data shares.
Data permissions for the Atlassian Data Lake
Data permissions in Analytics are not the same as the permissions you’ve set in your other Atlassian apps.
Once you create a connection to the Data Lake with Analytics, all your app data you’ve included in that connection becomes available to query or view.
Data permission in Analytics
While you can select specific projects to include for each selected app instance, you cannot set permissions at the row-level of the data. As such, people in your organization may see data they normally don’t have access to.
The visibility that you’ve applied to your Atlassian email address in your account settings also doesn’t apply to the Data Lake. If you’ve set the visibility to “Only you and admins”, others in your organization may be able to see your email address in Analytics.
The data is accessible to people who:
can query the data source
can view a dashboard that uses the data source for charts
Data permission in data shares
Unlike Data Lake connections in Analytics, the lowest granularity of data you can include in a data share is the app instance level. In other words, you wouldn’t be able to select specific Jira projects to include in a data share. Read more about creating data shares.
Data security
Your data is safe with us. The Data Lake follows Atlassian’s security practices to maintain data privacy.
Data residency
Data residency for the Data Lake is available for all locations except Switzerland. If you’ve pinned any app data to Switzerland, that data will not be available in the Data Lake. Read more about data residency.
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