Maintaining clear and consistent documentation across pipelines is always a challenge. Coalesce makes it effortless by automatically generating natural language descriptions from your lineage and transformation metadata to create:
Node & Column Descriptions: Auto-generated, easy-to-understand explanations of column transformations, logic, and business context — no more manual notes or guesswork. AI-Generated Git Commit Messages: Helpful, context-aware commit messages to keep your Git history clean, descriptive, and useful.
Benefits
How It Helps:
Reduce Documentation Overhead: Free up time for development while Coalesce handles the docs.
Maintain Consistency: Ensure standardized documentation across all data projects, teams, and environments.
Improve Stakeholder Clarity: Make it easier for business users and analysts to understand transformation logic.
Accelerate Onboarding: Help new team members ramp up faster with auto-generated, clean documentation.
How to Opt-In
AI Features not enabled by default in Coalesce. Organization admins can opt-in to the AI Documentation Assistant by going to Org Settings > Preferences and toggling AI Features.
When doing a commit, you might see changes for Nodes that you haven’t modified. This is expected when deprecated metadata is removed. You will need to:
Making a commit with the changes.
Continue on with your workflow.
Example of a commit with metadata changes
Deprecated Properties Removed:
Deprecated fields in 7.15 will affect all Source Node Types regardless of age or activity status. These fields may still appear in our API, but are no longer used in the Node metadata.
dataset
table
metadata.join
metadata.sourceMapping - already absent from most sources