Troubleshooting

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Test Connection

If the test connection fails, make sure the access key, secret key, account ID, and AWS region are entered correctly.

Metadata Extraction

  • If metadata extraction fails and you get an AccessDeniedException, it is a policy issue.

  • If no folders are fetched, make sure the QuickSight shared folders are not empty.

Logs

Alation Connector Manager Logs

To tail:

docker logs -f agent

To write to a file:

docker logs agent >& agent.logs 2>&1

Connector Logs

Note

The alation_ypireti commands should be run from the Alation shell as the alation user.

To get the connector ID:

alation_ypireti list --fields id name

To get full logs:

alation_ypireti kratos --subcommand logs <connector_id>

To write logs to a file:

alation_ypireti kratos --subcommand logs <conector_id> > connector.log 2>&1

To write logs from specific date to a file:

alation_ypireti kratos --subcommand logs --since 2020-08-15 <connector_id> > connector.log 2>&1