Amundsen Databuilder

Amundsen Databuilder is a data ingestion library, which is inspired by Apache Gobblin. It could be used in an orchestration framework(e.g. Apache Airflow) to build data from Amundsen. You could use the library either with an adhoc python script(example) or inside an Apache Airflow DAG(example).

For information about Amundsen and our other services, visit the main repository README.md . Please also see our instructions for a quick start setup of Amundsen with dummy data, and an overview of the architecture.

Requirements

Python >= 3.6.x

Doc

https://www.amundsen.io/amundsen/

Concept

ETL job consists of extraction of records from the source, transform records, if necessary, and load records into the sink. Amundsen Databuilder is a ETL framework for Amundsen and there are corresponding components for ETL called Extractor, Transformer, and Loader that deals with record level operation. A component called task controls all these three components. Job is the highest level component in Databuilder that controls task and publisher and is the one that client use to launch the ETL job.

In Databuilder, each components are highly modularized and each components are using namespace based config, HOCON config, which makes it highly reusable and pluggable. (e.g: transformer can be reused within extractor, or extractor can be reused within extractor) (Note that concept on components are highly motivated by Apache Gobblin)

Extractor

Extractor extracts record from the source. This does not neccessarily mean that it only supports pull pattern in ETL. For example, extracting record from messaging bus make it a push pattern in ETL.

Transformer

Transfomer takes record from either extractor or from transformer itself (via ChainedTransformer) to transform record.

Loader

A loader takes record from transformer or from extractor directly and load it to sink, or staging area. As loader is operated in record level, it's not capable of supporting atomicity.

Task

A task orchestrates extractor, transformer, and loader to perform record level operation.

Record

A record is represented by one of models.

Publisher

A publisher is an optional component. It's common usage is to support atomicity in job level and/or to easily support bulk load into the sink.

Job

Job is the highest level component in Databuilder, and it orchestrates task, and publisher.

Model

Models are abstractions representing the domain.

List of extractors

DBAPIExtractor

An extractor that uses Python Database API interface. DBAPI requires three information, connection object that conforms DBAPI spec, a SELECT SQL statement, and a model class that correspond to the output of each row of SQL statement.

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
		'extractor.dbapi{}'.format(DBAPIExtractor.CONNECTION_CONFIG_KEY): db_api_conn,
		'extractor.dbapi.{}'.format(DBAPIExtractor.SQL_CONFIG_KEY ): select_sql_stmt,
		'extractor.dbapi.model_class': 'package.module_name.class_name'
		})

job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=DBAPIExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

GenericExtractor

An extractor that takes list of dict from user through config.

HiveTableLastUpdatedExtractor

An extractor that extracts last updated time from Hive metastore and underlying file system. Although, hive metastore has a parameter called "last_modified_time", but it cannot be used as it provides DDL timestamp not DML timestamp. For this reason, HiveTableLastUpdatedExtractor is utilizing underlying file of Hive to fetch latest updated date. However, it is not efficient to poke all files in Hive, and it only pokes underlying storage for non-partitioned table. For partitioned table, it will fetch partition created timestamp, and it's close enough for last updated timestamp.

As getting metadata from files could be time consuming there're several features to increase performance.

Support of multithreading to parallelize metadata fetching. Although, cpython's multithreading is not true multithreading as it's bounded by single core, getting metadata of file is mostly IO bound operation. Note that number of threads should be less or equal to number of connections.
User can pass where clause to only include certain schema and also remove certain tables. For example, by adding something like TBL_NAME NOT REGEXP '(tmp|temp) would eliminate unncecessary computation.

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.hive_table_last_updated.partitioned_table_where_clause_suffix': partitioned_table_where_clause,
	'extractor.hive_table_last_updated.non_partitioned_table_where_clause_suffix'): non_partitioned_table_where_clause,
	'extractor.hive_table_last_updated.extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(
            SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): connection_string,
	'extractor.hive_table_last_updated.extractor.fs_worker_pool_size': pool_size,
	'extractor.hive_table_last_updated.filesystem.{}'.format(FileSystem.DASK_FILE_SYSTEM): s3fs.S3FileSystem(
		anon=False,
		config_kwargs={'max_pool_connections': pool_size})})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=HiveTableLastUpdatedExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

HiveTableMetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from Hive metastore database.

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.hive_table_metadata.{}'.format(HiveTableMetadataExtractor.WHERE_CLAUSE_SUFFIX_KEY): where_clause_suffix,
	'extractor.hive_table_metadata.extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): connection_string()})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=HiveTableMetadataExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

CassandraExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including keyspace, table name, column name and column type from Apache Cassandra databases

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.cassandra.{}'.format(CassandraExtractor.CLUSTER_KEY): cluster_identifier_string,
	'extractor.cassandra.{}'.format(CassandraExtractor.IPS_KEY): [127.0.0.1],
	'extractor.cassandra.{}'.format(CassandraExtractor.KWARGS_KEY): {},
	'extractor.cassandra.{}'.format(CassandraExtractor.FILTER_FUNCTION_KEY): my_filter_function,

})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=CassandraExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

If using the function filter options here is the function description

def filter(keytab, table):
  # return False if you don't want to add that table and True if you want to add
  return True

If needed to define more args on the cassandra cluster you can pass through kwargs args

config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.cassandra.{}'.format(CassandraExtractor.IPS_KEY): [127.0.0.1],
	'extractor.cassandra.{}'.format(CassandraExtractor.KWARGS_KEY): {'port': 9042}
})
# it will call the cluster constructor like this
Cluster([127.0.0.1], **kwargs)

GlueExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from AWS Glue metastore.

Before running make sure you have a working AWS profile configured and have access to search tables on Glue

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.glue.{}'.format(GlueExtractor.CLUSTER_KEY): cluster_identifier_string,
	'extractor.glue.{}'.format(GlueExtractor.FILTER_KEY): []})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=GlueExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

If using the filters option here is the input format

[
  {
    "Key": "string",
    "Value": "string",
    "Comparator": "EQUALS"|"GREATER_THAN"|"LESS_THAN"|"GREATER_THAN_EQUALS"|"LESS_THAN_EQUALS"
  }
  ...
]

Delta-Lake-MetadataExtractor

An extractor that runs on a spark cluster and obtains delta-lake metadata using spark sql commands. This custom solution is currently necessary because the hive metastore does not contain all metadata information for delta-lake tables. For simplicity, this extractor can also be used for all hive tables as well.

Because it must run on a spark cluster, it is required that you have an operator (for example a databricks submit run operator) that calls the configuration code on a spark cluster.

spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("Amundsen Delta Lake Metadata Extraction").getOrCreate()
job_config = create_delta_lake_job_config()
dExtractor = DeltaLakeMetadataExtractor()
dExtractor.set_spark(spark)
job = DefaultJob(conf=job_config,
                 task=DefaultTask(extractor=dExtractor, loader=FsNeo4jCSVLoader()),
                 publisher=Neo4jCsvPublisher())
job.launch()

You can check out the sample deltalake metadata script for a full example.

DremioMetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from Dremio.

Before running make sure that you have the Dremio ODBC driver installed. Default config values assume the default driver name for the MacBook install.

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
    'extractor.dremio.{}'.format(DremioMetadataExtractor.DREMIO_USER_KEY): DREMIO_USER,
    'extractor.dremio.{}'.format(DremioMetadataExtractor.DREMIO_PASSWORD_KEY): DREMIO_PASSWORD,
    'extractor.dremio.{}'.format(DremioMetadataExtractor.DREMIO_HOST_KEY): DREMIO_HOST})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=DremioMetadataExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

DruidMetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from a Druid DB.

The where_clause_suffix could be defined, normally you would like to filter out the in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

You could specify the following job config

conn_string = "druid+https://{host}:{port}/druid/v2/sql/".format(
		host=druid_broker_host,
		port=443
)
job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.druid_metadata.{}'.format(PostgresMetadataExtractor.WHERE_CLAUSE_SUFFIX_KEY): where_clause_suffix,
  'extractor.druid_metadata.extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): conn_string()})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=DruidMetadataExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

PostgresMetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from a Postgres or Redshift database.

By default, the Postgres/Redshift database name is used as the cluster name. To override this, set USE_CATALOG_AS_CLUSTER_NAME to False, and CLUSTER_KEY to what you wish to use as the cluster name.

The where_clause_suffix below should define which schemas you'd like to query (see the sample dag for an example).

The SQL query driving the extraction is defined here

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.postgres_metadata.{}'.format(PostgresMetadataExtractor.WHERE_CLAUSE_SUFFIX_KEY): where_clause_suffix,
    'extractor.postgres_metadata.{}'.format(PostgresMetadataExtractor.USE_CATALOG_AS_CLUSTER_NAME): True,
	'extractor.postgres_metadata.extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): connection_string()})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=PostgresMetadataExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

MSSQLMetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from a Microsoft SQL database.

By default, the Microsoft SQL Server Database name is used as the cluster name. To override this, set USE_CATALOG_AS_CLUSTER_NAME to False, and CLUSTER_KEY to what you wish to use as the cluster name.

The where_clause_suffix below should define which schemas you'd like to query ("('dbo','sys')").

The SQL query driving the extraction is defined here

This extractor is highly derived from PostgresMetadataExtractor.

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.mssql_metadata.{}'.format(MSSQLMetadataExtractor.WHERE_CLAUSE_SUFFIX_KEY): where_clause_suffix,
    'extractor.mssql_metadata.{}'.format(MSSQLMetadataExtractor.USE_CATALOG_AS_CLUSTER_NAME): True,
	'extractor.mssql_metadata.extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): connection_string()})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=MSSQLMetadataExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

MysqlMetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from a MYSQL database.

By default, the MYSQL database name is used as the cluster name. To override this, set USE_CATALOG_AS_CLUSTER_NAME to False, and CLUSTER_KEY to what you wish to use as the cluster name.

The where_clause_suffix below should define which schemas you'd like to query.

The SQL query driving the extraction is defined here

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.mysql_metadata.{}'.format(MysqlMetadataExtractor.WHERE_CLAUSE_SUFFIX_KEY): where_clause_suffix,
  'extractor.mysql_metadata.{}'.format(MysqlMetadataExtractor.USE_CATALOG_AS_CLUSTER_NAME): True,
	'extractor.mysql_metadata.extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): connection_string()})
job = DefaultJob(conf=job_config,
								 task=DefaultTask(extractor=MysqlMetadataExtractor(), loader=FsNeo4jCSVLoader()),
								 publisher=Neo4jCsvPublisher())
job.launch()

Db2MetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from a Unix, Windows or Linux Db2 database or BigSQL.

The where_clause_suffix below should define which schemas you'd like to query or those that you would not (see the sample data loader for an example).

The SQL query driving the extraction is defined here

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.db2_metadata.{}'.format(Db2MetadataExtractor.WHERE_CLAUSE_SUFFIX_KEY): where_clause_suffix,
	'extractor.db2_metadata.extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): connection_string()})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=Db2MetadataExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

SnowflakeMetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from a Snowflake database.

By default, the Snowflake database name is used as the cluster name. To override this, set USE_CATALOG_AS_CLUSTER_NAME to False, and CLUSTER_KEY to what you wish to use as the cluster name.

By default, the Snowflake database is set to PROD. To override this, set DATABASE_KEY to WhateverNameOfYourDb.

By default, the Snowflake schema is set to INFORMATION_SCHEMA. To override this, set SCHEMA_KEY to WhateverNameOfYourSchema.

Note that ACCOUNT_USAGE is a separate schema which allows users to query a wider set of data at the cost of latency. Differences are defined here

The where_clause_suffix should define which schemas you'd like to query (see the sample dag for an example).

The SQL query driving the extraction is defined here

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
    'extractor.snowflake.{}'.format(SnowflakeMetadataExtractor.SNOWFLAKE_DATABASE_KEY): 'YourDbName',
    'extractor.snowflake.{}'.format(SnowflakeMetadataExtractor.WHERE_CLAUSE_SUFFIX_KEY): where_clause_suffix,
    'extractor.snowflake.{}'.format(SnowflakeMetadataExtractor.USE_CATALOG_AS_CLUSTER_NAME): True,
    'extractor.snowflake.extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): connection_string()})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=SnowflakeMetadataExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

SnowflakeTableLastUpdatedExtractor

An extractor that extracts table last updated timestamp from a Snowflake database.

It uses same configs as the SnowflakeMetadataExtractor described above.

The SQL query driving the extraction is defined here

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.snowflake_table_last_updated.{}'.format(SnowflakeTableLastUpdatedExtractor.SNOWFLAKE_DATABASE_KEY): 'YourDbName',
	'extractor.snowflake_table_last_updated.{}'.format(SnowflakeTableLastUpdatedExtractor.WHERE_CLAUSE_SUFFIX_KEY): where_clause_suffix,
       'extractor.snowflake_table_last_updated.{}'.format(SnowflakeTableLastUpdatedExtractor.USE_CATALOG_AS_CLUSTER_NAME): True,
	'extractor.snowflake_table_last_updated.extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): connection_string()})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=SnowflakeTableLastUpdatedExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

BigQueryMetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, table description, column name and column description from a Bigquery database.

The API calls driving the extraction is defined here

You will need to create a service account for reading metadata and grant it "BigQuery Metadata Viewer" access to all of your datasets. This can all be done via the bigquery ui.

Download the creditials file and store it securely. Set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment varible to the location of your credtials files and your code should have access to everything it needs.

You can configure bigquery like this. You can optionally set a label filter if you only want to pull tables with a certain label.

    job_config = {
        'extractor.bigquery_table_metadata.{}'.format(
            BigQueryMetadataExtractor.PROJECT_ID_KEY
            ): gcloud_project
    }
    if label_filter:
        job_config[
            'extractor.bigquery_table_metadata.{}'
            .format(BigQueryMetadataExtractor.FILTER_KEY)
            ] = label_filter
    task = DefaultTask(extractor=BigQueryMetadataExtractor(),
                       loader=csv_loader,
                       transformer=NoopTransformer())
    job = DefaultJob(conf=ConfigFactory.from_dict(job_config),
                     task=task,
                     publisher=Neo4jCsvPublisher())
job.launch()

Neo4jEsLastUpdatedExtractor

An extractor that basically get current timestamp and passes it GenericExtractor. This extractor is basically being used to create timestamp for "Amundsen was last indexed on ..." in Amundsen web page's footer.

Neo4jExtractor

An extractor that extracts records from Neo4j based on provided Cypher query. One example is to extract data from Neo4j so that it can transform and publish to Elasticsearch.

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.CYPHER_QUERY_CONFIG_KEY): cypher_query,
	'extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.GRAPH_URL_CONFIG_KEY): neo4j_endpoint,
	'extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.MODEL_CLASS_CONFIG_KEY): 'package.module.class_name',
	'extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.NEO4J_AUTH_USER): neo4j_user,
	'extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.NEO4J_AUTH_PW): neo4j_password},
	'extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.NEO4J_ENCRYPTED): True})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=Neo4jExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

Neo4jSearchDataExtractor

An extractor that is extracting Neo4j utilizing Neo4jExtractor where CYPHER query is already embedded in it.

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.search_data.extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.GRAPH_URL_CONFIG_KEY): neo4j_endpoint,
	'extractor.search_data.extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.MODEL_CLASS_CONFIG_KEY): 'databuilder.models.neo4j_data.Neo4jDataResult',
	'extractor.search_data.extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.NEO4J_AUTH_USER): neo4j_user,
	'extractor.search_data.extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.NEO4J_AUTH_PW): neo4j_password},
	'extractor.search_data.extractor.neo4j.{}'.format(Neo4jExtractor.NEO4J_ENCRYPTED): False})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=Neo4jSearchDataExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

VerticaMetadataExtractor

An extractor that extracts table and column metadata including database, schema, table name, column name and column datatype from a Vertica database.

A sample loading script for Vertica is provided here

By default, the Vertica database name is used as the cluster name. The where_clause_suffix in the example can be used to define which schemas you would like to query.

SQLAlchemyExtractor

An extractor utilizes SQLAlchemy to extract record from any database that support SQL Alchemy.

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.CONN_STRING): connection_string(),
	'extractor.sqlalchemy.{}'.format(SQLAlchemyExtractor.EXTRACT_SQL): sql,
	'extractor.sqlalchemy.model_class': 'package.module.class_name'})
job = DefaultJob(
	conf=job_config,
	task=DefaultTask(
		extractor=SQLAlchemyExtractor(),
		loader=AnyLoader()))
job.launch()

RestAPIExtractor

A extractor that utilizes RestAPIQuery to extract data. RestAPIQuery needs to be constructed (example) and needs to be injected to RestAPIExtractor.

Mode Dashboard Extractor

Here are extractors that extracts metadata information from Mode via Mode's REST API.

Prerequisite:

You will need to create API access token that has admin privilege.
You will need organization code. This is something you can easily get by looking at one of Mode report's URL.
https://app.mode.com/<organization code>/reports/report_token

ModeDashboardExtractor

A Extractor that extracts core metadata on Mode dashboard. https://app.mode.com/

It extracts list of reports that consists of: Dashboard group name (Space name) Dashboard group id (Space token) Dashboard group description (Space description) Dashboard name (Report name) Dashboard id (Report token) Dashboard description (Report description)

Other information such as report run, owner, chart name, query name is in separate extractor.

It calls two APIs (spaces API and reports API) joining together.

You can create Databuilder job config like this.

task = DefaultTask(extractor=ModeDashboardExtractor(),
				   loader=FsNeo4jCSVLoader(), )

tmp_folder = '/var/tmp/amundsen/mode_dashboard_metadata'

node_files_folder = '{tmp_folder}/nodes'.format(tmp_folder=tmp_folder)
relationship_files_folder = '{tmp_folder}/relationships'.format(tmp_folder=tmp_folder)

job_config = ConfigFactory.from_dict({
	'extractor.mode_dashboard.{}'.format(ORGANIZATION): organization,
	'extractor.mode_dashboard.{}'.format(MODE_ACCESS_TOKEN): mode_token,
	'extractor.mode_dashboard.{}'.format(MODE_PASSWORD_TOKEN): mode_password,
	'loader.filesystem_csv_neo4j.{}'.format(FsNeo4jCSVLoader.NODE_DIR_PATH): node_files_folder,
	'loader.filesystem_csv_neo4j.{}'.format(FsNeo4jCSVLoader.RELATION_DIR_PATH): relationship_files_folder,
	'loader.filesystem_csv_neo4j.{}'.format(FsNeo4jCSVLoader.SHOULD_DELETE_CREATED_DIR): True,
	'task.progress_report_frequency': 100,
	'publisher.neo4j.{}'.format(neo4j_csv_publisher.NODE_FILES_DIR): node_files_folder,
	'publisher.neo4j.{}'.format(neo4j_csv_publisher.RELATION_FILES_DIR): relationship_files_folder,
	'publisher.neo4j.{}'.format(neo4j_csv_publisher.NEO4J_END_POINT_KEY): neo4j_endpoint,
	'publisher.neo4j.{}'.format(neo4j_csv_publisher.NEO4J_USER): neo4j_user,
	'publisher.neo4j.{}'.format(neo4j_csv_publisher.NEO4J_PASSWORD): neo4j_password,
	'publisher.neo4j.{}'.format(neo4j_csv_publisher.NEO4J_ENCRYPTED): True,
	'publisher.neo4j.{}'.format(neo4j_csv_publisher.NEO4J_CREATE_ONLY_NODES): [DESCRIPTION_NODE_LABEL],
	'publisher.neo4j.{}'.format(neo4j_csv_publisher.JOB_PUBLISH_TAG): job_publish_tag
})

job = DefaultJob(conf=job_config,
                 task=task,
                 publisher=Neo4jCsvPublisher())
job.launch()

ModeDashboardOwnerExtractor

An Extractor that extracts Dashboard owner. Mode itself does not have concept of owner and it will use creator as owner. Note that if user left the organization, it would skip the dashboard.