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  • Enable auto metadata ingestion
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  • Create and use a business glossary
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    • About MCP servers
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    • About data insights for structured data
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  • About metadata
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  • Manage entries and ingest custom sources
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  • Manage business glossaries
    • Manage glossaries on Knowledge Catalog
    • Transition to glossaries on Knowledge Catalog
    • Import and export glossaries and entry links
      • About importing and exporting glossaries and entry links
      • Import glossaries and entry links
        • Import glossaries and entry links using JSON files
        • Import glossaries from a Google Sheet
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        • Export glossaries to a Google Sheet
        • Export entry links to a Google Sheet
    • Manage glossaries on Data Catalog
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    • About data products
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  • Track data lineage
  • About data lineage
  • About lineage visualization
  • View lineage information
  • Control data lineage ingestion
    • About data lineage ingestion control
    • Configure data lineage ingestion for a service
  • Get lineage across multiple regions
    • About multi-region lineage search
    • Get lineage using server-side automation
    • Get lineage using client-side fan-out
  • Integrate with OpenLineage
  • Track external system lineage
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    • Overview
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    • About auto data quality
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    • About data profiling
    • Use data profiling
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      • About unstructured data insights
      • Use discovery scan for unstructured data
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    • About data quality tasks
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  • Manage data quality rules as code with Terraform, Cloud Build, and GitHub
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    • Build a policy-as-code data quality workflow
  • Manage requests with governance workflows
    • About governance workflows
    • Manage requests
    • Manage metadata changes
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  • IAM roles
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  • Map IAM permissions between Data Catalog and Knowledge Catalog
  • Use VPC Service Controls
  • Enable customer-managed encryption keys
  • Manage resources using custom constraints
    • Manage Knowledge Catalog resources by using custom constraints
    • Manage lineage resources by using custom constraints
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    • About metadata change feeds
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As of April 10, 2026, Dataplex Universal Catalog is now called Knowledge Catalog. The API, client library, CLI, and IAM names remain unchanged. For more information, see Introducing the Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog.
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