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A plugin is an integration type, such as Snowflake or PostgreSQL. A connection is one instance of it, such as your production Snowflake account. One plugin can hold many connections. The agent and your notebooks work with the data your connections reach.

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Available plugins

Notebooks also include DuckDB, which needs no connection. Use it to query files and the notebook’s own dataframes. Curious about an integration we do not support? Email contact@alkera.ai. We would love to hear what you want to connect, and it may already be on our roadmap.

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Add a connection

1

Open Connections

Click Connections in the sidebar, then Add connection.
2

Choose who it is for

Under Who this connection is for, choose Just me for a personal connection, or a team to share it with everyone on that team. Only team admins can add team connections.
3

Configure it

Pick the plugin and how to sign in, and fill in its details.Every connection also needs a Deployment tier: Production, Staging, Development, or Local. It tells the agent how careful to be.
4

Save

Click Save connection. Alkera checks the connection first and saves it only if the check passes.

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Personal and team connections

A team connection can work in one of two ways:
  • One shared login. The admin enters the credentials once, and everyone on the team uses them. Members never see the secret.
  • Each member signs in. With browser sign-in (OAuth), each member signs in through their browser, so their own warehouse permissions apply.
The Connections page groups connections under Yours, your organization’s, and each team’s.
Sharing a workspace lends your connections. People you share a workspace with can query data through your connections from its chats while they have edit access.

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Credentials

Credentials are stored on Alkera’s servers, never in your workspace files and never in the agent’s context. Alkera connects to your systems as the connection’s user. Whatever roles and grants your warehouse enforces still apply.

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Status and upkeep

Each connection shows its status, such as Connected with when it was last verified, Sign in again, Update credential, Unreachable, or No access. From a connection’s menu, you can:
  • Verify now to check it again.
  • Edit… to change its settings or credentials.
  • Remove… to delete it. Removing a team connection removes it for all members.

Agent & Tools

How the agent uses your connections, and what it may do with them.

SQL and Python

Query a connection from a notebook.