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Important Capabilities​

CapabilityStatusNotes
Descriptions✅Optionally enabled via configuration
Detect Deleted Entities✅Optionally enabled via stateful_ingestion

This plugin extracts the following:

  • Users
  • Groups
  • Group Membership

from your Okta instance.

Note that any users ingested from this connector will not be able to log into DataHub unless you have Okta OIDC SSO enabled. You can, however, have these users ingested into DataHub before they log in for the first time if you would like to take actions like adding them to a group or assigning them a role.

For instructions on how to do configure Okta OIDC SSO, please read the documentation here.

Extracting DataHub Users​

Usernames​

Usernames serve as unique identifiers for users on DataHub. This connector extracts usernames using the "login" field of an Okta User Profile. By default, the 'login' attribute, which contains an email, is parsed to extract the text before the "@" and map that to the DataHub username.

If this is not how you wish to map to DataHub usernames, you can provide a custom mapping using the configurations options detailed below. Namely, okta_profile_to_username_attr and okta_profile_to_username_regex. e.g. if you want to map emails to urns then you may use the following configuration:

okta_profile_to_username_attr: "email"
okta_profile_to_username_regex: ".*"

Profiles​

This connector also extracts basic user profile information from Okta. The following fields of the Okta User Profile are extracted and mapped to the DataHub CorpUserInfo aspect:

  • display name
  • first name
  • last name
  • email
  • title
  • department
  • country code

Extracting DataHub Groups​

Group Names​

Group names serve as unique identifiers for groups on DataHub. This connector extracts group names using the "name" attribute of an Okta Group Profile. By default, a URL-encoded version of the full group name is used as the unique identifier (CorpGroupKey) and the raw "name" attribute is mapped as the display name that will appear in DataHub's UI.

If this is not how you wish to map to DataHub group names, you can provide a custom mapping using the configurations options detailed below. Namely, okta_profile_to_group_name_attr and okta_profile_to_group_name_regex.

Profiles​

This connector also extracts basic group information from Okta. The following fields of the Okta Group Profile are extracted and mapped to the DataHub CorpGroupInfo aspect:

  • name
  • description

Extracting Group Membership​

This connector additional extracts the edges between Users and Groups that are stored in Okta. It maps them to the GroupMembership aspect associated with DataHub users (CorpUsers).

Filtering and Searching​

You can also choose to ingest a subset of users or groups to Datahub by adding flags for filtering or searching. For users, set either the okta_users_filter or okta_users_search flag (only one can be set at a time). For groups, set either the okta_groups_filter or okta_groups_search flag. Note that these are not regular expressions. See below for full configuration options.

CLI based Ingestion​

Install the Plugin​

pip install 'acryl-datahub[okta]'

Starter Recipe​

Check out the following recipe to get started with ingestion! See below for full configuration options.

For general pointers on writing and running a recipe, see our main recipe guide.

source:
  type: okta
  config:
    # Coordinates
    okta_domain: "dev-35531955.okta.com"

    # Credentials
    okta_api_token: "11be4R_M2MzDqXawbTHfKGpKee0kuEOfX1RCQSRx99"

sink:
  # sink configs

Config Details​

Note that a . is used to denote nested fields in the YAML recipe.

FieldDescription
okta_api_token ✅
string
An API token generated for the DataHub application inside your Okta Developer Console. e.g. 00be4R_M2MzDqXawbWgfKGpKee0kuEOfX1RCQSRx00
okta_domain ✅
string
The location of your Okta Domain, without a protocol. Can be found in Okta Developer console. e.g. dev-33231928.okta.com
delay_seconds
One of number, integer
Number of seconds to wait between calls to Okta's REST APIs. (Okta rate limits). Defaults to 10ms.
Default: 0.01
include_deprovisioned_users
boolean
Whether to ingest users in the DEPROVISIONED state from Okta.
Default: False
include_suspended_users
boolean
Whether to ingest users in the SUSPENDED state from Okta.
Default: False
ingest_group_membership
boolean
Whether group membership should be ingested into DataHub. ingest_groups must be True if this is True.
Default: True
ingest_groups
boolean
Whether groups should be ingested into DataHub.
Default: True
ingest_users
boolean
Whether users should be ingested into DataHub.
Default: True
mask_group_id
boolean
Default: True
mask_user_id
boolean
Default: True
okta_groups_filter
string
Okta filter expression (not regex) for ingesting groups. Only one of okta_groups_filter and okta_groups_search can be set. See (https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/api/groups/#filters) for more info.
okta_groups_search
string
Okta search expression (not regex) for ingesting groups. Only one of okta_groups_filter and okta_groups_search can be set. See (https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/api/groups/#list-groups-with-search) for more info.
okta_profile_to_group_name_attr
string
Which Okta Group Profile attribute to use as input to DataHub group name mapping.
Default: name
okta_profile_to_group_name_regex
string
A regex used to parse the DataHub group name from the attribute specified in okta_profile_to_group_name_attr.
Default: (.*)
okta_profile_to_username_attr
string
Which Okta User Profile attribute to use as input to DataHub username mapping. Common values used are - login, email.
Default: email
okta_profile_to_username_regex
string
A regex used to parse the DataHub username from the attribute specified in okta_profile_to_username_attr.
Default: (.*)
okta_users_filter
string
Okta filter expression (not regex) for ingesting users. Only one of okta_users_filter and okta_users_search can be set. See (https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/api/users/#list-users-with-a-filter) for more info.
okta_users_search
string
Okta search expression (not regex) for ingesting users. Only one of okta_users_filter and okta_users_search can be set. See (https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/api/users/#list-users-with-search) for more info.
page_size
integer
The number of entities requested from Okta's REST APIs in one request.
Default: 100
stateful_ingestion
StatefulStaleMetadataRemovalConfig
Okta Stateful Ingestion Config.
stateful_ingestion.enabled
boolean
The type of the ingestion state provider registered with datahub.
Default: False
stateful_ingestion.ignore_new_state
boolean
If set to True, ignores the current checkpoint state.
Default: False
stateful_ingestion.ignore_old_state
boolean
If set to True, ignores the previous checkpoint state.
Default: False
stateful_ingestion.remove_stale_metadata
boolean
Soft-deletes the entities present in the last successful run but missing in the current run with stateful_ingestion enabled.
Default: True

As a prerequisite, you should create a DataHub Application within the Okta Developer Console with full permissions to read your organization's Users and Groups.

Compatibility​

Validated against Okta API Versions:

  • 2021.07.2

    Validated against load:

  • User Count: 1000

  • Group Count: 100

  • Group Membership Edges: 1000 (1 per User)

  • Run Time (Wall Clock): 2min 7sec

Code Coordinates​

  • Class Name: datahub.ingestion.source.identity.okta.OktaSource
  • Browse on GitHub

Questions

If you've got any questions on configuring ingestion for Okta, feel free to ping us on our Slack.