Can MANTA scanners be customized?
MANTA provides 50+ OOTB scanners that are designed to handle lineage from the respective technologies. These scanners should not require any customizations as they are designed for a specific technology. However, all our scanners provide configuration options so they can be adjusted for a particular use. This includes the ability to handle placeholder and variable replacements and/or the specification of lineage for custom components in ETL tools.
Another option that MANTA provides is the annotated script scanner that extracts lineage information from technologies not supported by MANTA’s native scanners when additional annotations denoting lineage information are provided in the form of comments in the scripts.
For technologies that are not supported by MANTA’s OOTB scanners, we provide Open Extensions that enable the ingestion of custom metadata and lineage to the MANTA platform in a spreadsheet-like form.