# Getting Started with Enrichment

Source: https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/getting-started/

Enrichment is Qualytics writing its findings back into your own infrastructure. An **enrichment datastore** receives those findings and appears in the same tree as every other datastore. It can contain computed assets, run operations, and be referenced in flows. When a source datastore is linked to it, it becomes that source's **enrichment destination**. Scan, Materialize, and Export write their outputs there so they can be queried, audited, and read by other systems.

This section covers both sides of the link: the settings on the source datastore and what its operations write, and what the destination shows and can do. Linking needs at least the **Member** role and the **Editor** team permission on the source datastore. Unlinking needs the **Admin** role.

## Deep Dive

- **Introduction**

  What an enrichment datastore stores, why to link one as a destination, and what each operation writes.

  [Introduction](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/introduction/)
- **How It Works**

  Settings, what happens after each write, display names, lineage, last write, and unlinking.

  [How It Works](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/how-it-works/)
- **Enrichment Purposes**

  The seven purposes, where the badge appears, and what a written container shows.

  [Purposes](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/purposes/)
- **Enrichment Outputs**

  Physical names and columns of Scan outputs, remediation snapshots, and materialized copies.

  [Enrichment Outputs](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/tables/)
- **Export Outputs**

  Columns of the exported anomalies, checks, field profiles, and check templates, with SQL for unpacking their JSON.

  [Export Outputs](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/export-tables/)
- **Schema Changelog**

  Column additions, removals, and type changes to the outputs a Scan writes, by date.

  [Schema Changelog](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/schema-changelog/)
- **Permissions**

  Which roles and team permissions can link, edit settings, unlink, and work inside a destination.

  [Permissions](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/deep-dive/permissions/)

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## How-tos

- **Link an Enrichment Destination**

  Link an existing datastore as the destination, or create one from inside the dialog.

  [Link](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/how-tos/link-enrichment/)
- **Link on Datastore Creation**

  Link or create the destination in the second step of the Add Datastore page.

  [Link on Creation](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/how-tos/link-during-creation/)
- **Unlink an Enrichment Destination**

  Remove the link from a source datastore.

  [Unlink](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/how-tos/unlink-enrichment/)
- **View the Relationship Diagram**

  Open the diagram of how the written outputs join one another.

  [Relationship Diagram](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/how-tos/view-relationship-diagram/)
- **Sort Enrichment Datastores**

  Search the enrichment datastores list and change its order.

  [Sort Enrichment Datastores](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/how-tos/sort-enrichment-datastores/)

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## Reference

- **Supported Connectors**

  Which connectors a destination can live on.

  [Supported Connectors](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/supported-connectors/)
- **API**

  Link, unlink, change settings, create a destination, and read written outputs programmatically.

  [API](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/api/)
- **FAQ**

  Where destinations live in the tree, what the badges mean, missing last writes, renamed outputs, and turning off the automatic profile.

  [FAQ](https://userguide.qualytics.io/source-datastore/enrichment-datastore/faq/)

*Last updated: October 13, 2026.*