Data lineage ingestion control is GA for BigQuery, Spark and Airflow

GAJul 17, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Data lineage can now be controlled at the organization, folder or project level for BigQuery, Managed Service for Apache Spark and Managed Service for Apache Airflow.

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