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title: "Integrations"
slug: "dev-dataengine-integrations"
tags: ["DataEngine"]
updated: 2026-10-28T02:15:22Z
published: 2026-10-28T02:15:22Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/dev-dataengine-integrations"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vastdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Integrations

Patterns for connecting DataEngine to other systems with code you write, since none of them is built in. Start with VAST DataBase and Vector Search from a function if your functions write tables, and Consume the dead-letter topic before you go to production.

- **[Integrations](/develop/docs/dev-dataengine-integrations-index)**: Patterns for connecting DataEngine to VAST DataBase, the dead-letter topic, OpenTelemetry, orchestrators and lineage tools, none of them built in.
- **[VAST DataBase and Vector Search from a function](/develop/docs/dev-dataengine-integrations-vast-database-and-vector-search)**: Write VAST DataBase rows and embeddings from a function with the vastdb SDK, with S3 keys passed as a secret.
- **[Consume the dead-letter topic](/develop/docs/dev-dataengine-integrations-dead-letter-topic)**: Read your tenant's dead-letter topic with a Kafka consumer, decode why each event failed, and alert on it or replay it.
- **[Your own OpenTelemetry backend](/develop/docs/dev-dataengine-integrations-opentelemetry)**: Send a function's traces and logs to your own OpenTelemetry collector over OTLP, alongside DataEngine's telemetry and with the same trace ID.
- **[Orchestrators (Airflow and similar)](/develop/docs/dev-dataengine-integrations-orchestrators)**: Start a pipeline from an Airflow or similar task by writing an object, wait for its run, and fail on errors.
- **[OpenLineage and OpenMetadata](/develop/docs/dev-dataengine-integrations-openlineage-and-openmetadata)**: Emit OpenLineage run events from a function with openlineage-python, over HTTP or an Event Broker topic, for Marquez or OpenMetadata.