Amazon Athena is used as a query engine for Amazon S3 files.

Prerequisites

In AWS Management Console, prepare the followingcredentials and permission for Validio to validate your data:

• An IAM user with access and permissions to query data using Athena.
• Credentials for the IAM user.

Access key

You must supply an Access key and Secret key to authenticate to AWS. For more information, refer to Managing access keys for IAM users.

Permissions

The following permissions must be assigned to your IAM user. For more information, refer to Identity and access management in Athena.

Add an Athena Credential

To add a credential for Amazon Athena,

1. Navigate to Credentials and click + New Credential.

2. Under Namespace, select a namespace where the resources will be created.

3. For Credential Type, select AWS Athena Credential.

4. Fill in the credential parameter fields. Refer to the Athena Credential Parameters table.

5. Check Use for catalog to automatically discover credentials and add them to the catalog page.

6. Click Create.
   Validio will validate the connection to the Athena account. If validation passes, Validio will automatically start fetching data. If validation fails, check that you provided the correct parameter values and try again.

   Once the credential is created, you can add a source to monitor Athena data.

Athena Credential Parameters

Add an Athena Source

Although Athena is a query engine, you will configure the source as a Data warehouse.

To add a source for Athena,

1. Navigate to Sources and click + New source.
2. Under Source type, select Data Warehouse > Amazon Athena.
3. Under Config,
   1. Select the valid Credential or create a new credential to authenticate your connection to the data warehouse.
   2. Enter the Catalog, Database, and Table to specify where the data comes from. Selecting more than one table will create a new source for each table. Refer to the Source Configuration Parameters table.
   3. Set how many days of Historic data to use when you start the source.
   4. Set the Polling schedule, which is how frequently the validators on the source will check for changes.
4. Under Schema, click Continue to automatically infer the schema fields from the tables you selected. If you select many tables, this operation can take a few minutes to complete.
5. Under Source details,
   1. Add Tags to help group related sources or to use for routing notifications.
   2. Add an Owner who will be the contact for incident notifications.
6. Click Continue to create the source.
   Source names are generated automatically and will be displayed when the source creation completes. If there are more than 5 sources, you will see the names for the first five and a count of the remaining sources.

Source Configuration Parameters