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Introduction to Swagger API sources
You can use Metadata Command Center to extract metadata from a source system.
A source system is any system that contains data or metadata. For example, Swagger API is a source system from which you can extract metadata through a Swagger API catalog source. A catalog source is an object that represents and contains metadata from the source system.
Before you extract metadata from a source system, you first create and register a catalog source that represents the source system.
When Metadata Command Center extracts metadata, Data Governance and Catalog displays the extracted metadata and its attributes as technical assets. You can then perform tasks such as analyzing the assets, viewing relationships, and creating links between those assets and their business context.
You can only extract metadata using this catalog source.
Preview Notice:
Effective in the November 2025 release, the
Swagger API
catalog source is available for preview.
Preview functionality is supported for evaluation purposes but is unwarranted and is not supported in production environments or any environment that you plan to push to production. Informatica intends to include the preview functionality in an upcoming release for production use, but might choose not to in accordance with changing market or technical circumstances. For more information, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.