Overview: Landing Zone entities

A landing zone entity is the entry point for ingesting and storing raw data in your data platform. Landing zones are optimized to capture large volumes of unprocessed data from diverse sources. Data is retained in its original format, providing a secure and scalable staging area for subsequent processing.

Landing Zone entities validate incoming data and resource types, helping ensure data integrity before data advances to later stages (bronze, silver, and gold). For example, if a source system contains 10 tables, create 10 landing zone entities—one for each table.

Configuring a Landing Zone entity

Additional configuration options for Landing Zone entities can be setup using Entity Values. To read more about all the possibilities, see Entity Values.

How to create a landing zone entity

To add a new landing zone entity:

1. For the smoothest experience, we recommend to use the Entity Wizard.
2. Alternatively, create an entity directly from the landing zone entities panel.

For more information about configuring Landing Zone entities, see Configure a Landing Zone entity.

Organizing raw data with landing zone entities streamlines management and prepares data for downstream processing and analytics.