Descriptions

Choose the right approach for adding descriptions to your Catalog assets:

Method	Best for
Ingested from source	Descriptions already in your warehouse, BI tool, or dbt. Catalog pulls them automatically.
Upload CSV	Migrating from Snowflake/BigQuery exports, spreadsheets, or tools Catalog doesn't connect to.
Column propagation	Downstream columns that pass through unchanged from a single parent. Descriptions propagate automatically.
Metadata Editor bulk edit	Adding or replacing descriptions across many assets at once (up to 15,000 per run).
AI-powered descriptions	Generating descriptions from metadata and lineage when you don't have them yet.
User-generated	Writing descriptions manually in the Catalog UI for individual assets.