> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getcollate.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Data Discovery | How-To Guide > Step-by-step guidance for data discovery using Collate. Learn key actions, features, and best practices. # Overview of Data Discovery Finding the right data across thousands of assets is difficult without rich metadata and structured search. Collate acts as a single catalog — aggregating metadata from all your data sources and surfacing the right information based on who's looking. **Who it helps:** * **Data producers** — make informed decisions about evolving data and prioritizing fixes * **Data consumers** — find trustworthy, timely data without digging through silos **How you can search:** * Keyword search across all asset types * Data associations — frequently joined tables, upstream/downstream lineage * Complex queries for precise filtering **What you can search across:** Tables, topics, dashboards, pipelines, ML models, containers, glossaries, and tags — including detailed metadata for components like columns and charts, with support for complex types such as arrays and structs. Track **data evolution** end-to-end through lineage and metadata versioning to see how assets change over time.