renamed Public Preview
Bring Your Own Lineage (BYOL)
Bring Your Own Lineage was renamed - Databricks now calls it External lineage, as of June 2026.
Bring Your Own Lineage External lineage
Unity Catalog's Public Preview capability for registering assets and workflows that run outside Databricks, so first-mile ETL sources and last-mile BI tools join the lineage graph.
- A governance feature named like a bring-your-own-bottle policy - you supply the lineage metadata, Unity Catalog supplies the graph it hangs on.
- The release note that launched it carried an extra word the short name dropped, heading the announcement "Bring your own data lineage (Public Preview)".
- Its debut examples were resolutely un-Databricks - Salesforce and MySQL upstream, Tableau and PowerBI downstream, the latter spelled as one word in the announcement.
- Category
- Data governance
- Abbreviation
- BYOL
- Also known as
- Bring your own data lineage, BYOL
- Verified
- 2026-08-20
Sources
- Official Official Databricks / Microsoft docs