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Learn more about data relevance and how it can improve your data quality.

Learn more about how data security plays a role in your data quality practices.

Learn more about how data reliability plays a role in your data quality practices.

Learn what data usability is and what role it has to play in improving data quality across your data stack.

Learn more about how valid data can play a part in your data quality strategy.

Data completeness is one of the ten dimensions of data quality. In this post, you'll learn what it means, why it matters, and how it's measured.

Data accuracy is one of the ten dimensions of data quality. In this post, you'll learn what it means, why it matters, and how it's measured.

Data freshness is one of the ten dimensions of data quality. In this post, you'll learn what it means, why it matters, and how it's measured.

Data consistency is one of the ten dimensions of data quality. In this post, you'll learn what it means, why it matters, and how it's measured.

How does data quality impact business performance? In the best case, poor data quality creates more work for your data team. In the worst case, it costs you time, frustrates stakeholders, jeopardizes revenue, and damages customer sentiment.

How to choose the right data architecture: Weighing the pros and cons of Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Data modernization is the key to unlocking actionable insights and staying ahead in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape. Read our tips on how to improve your ongoing cloud migrations.

Learn more about how data quality tests, data monitoring, and data observability differ, while still improving data quality in their own ways.

Data observability is arguably the hottest concept in the data space today, but few have a clear sense of what it means. This blog post offers a definition of data observability, differentiates it from related concepts, and emphasizes why it's important.

There are a multitude of potential data quality issues, and equally many ways to improve. This post describes two guidelines, three concepts, and four best practices to preserve trust in data.

Explore the evolving world of data products (or data as a product), their impact on decision-making, how they're integrated into businesses, and what the implications of this new phrase is.

Read about our feature G2 badges using reviews from actual Metaplane users.

Understanding Microsoft Fabric: From OneLake's unique data storage to flexible compute setups.

Learn more about an up and coming space, machine learning monitoring, and how the use cases and functions differ from data observability.

Data catalogs are being adopted to improve data quality and help analytics and data engineering teams better understand what's available to use. Read on if you're currently evaluating data catalogs!

Learn how you can use data lineage, provided by data observability tools, to improve data quality across your modern data stack.

A detailed guide comparing Data Mesh and Data Lake architectures, and factors to consider when choosing.

A framework for data practitioners to evaluate data observability and quality monitoring tools.

Overview of the similarities and differences between the established field of Software Observability and the emerging category of Data Observability.

Business intelligence is evolving, and it's happening right now. Discover the 5 transformative shifts set to redefine the future of BI.

Discover how to effectively backfill data in 2023, manage complex challenges, and uphold high data accuracy standards.

Read this post to understand if you should formally assign or hire a member of your team to focus on data reliability.

Using stale data for decision-making can have dire consequences. In this blog post, we explore the risks and emphasize the significance of accurate data.

Discover the significance of data contracts as a bridge between business and data in our blog post. Uncover their definition, key elements, benefits, and effective implementation tips.

Discover the key trends shaping data analytics and data science: automation, the rise of machine learning and LLMs, and the democratization of data.

Learn more about Data Product Managers, their origin, impact on businesses, and traits to develop to make it a career.

With countries focused on creating new data governance policies to protect users - it's more important than ever to learn about how data observability can help you avoid heavy regulatory fines.

Get an in-depth understanding of the Data Mesh architecture, its real-world applications, and the keys to its successful adoption.

A framework of data quality metrics, a shortlist of metrics, and a process for identifying which metrics your team should use.

The four most common reasons for how data leaders justified an investment into data observability, spanning concrete to intangible (but still critical) reasons.

Explore the key differences between DevOps and DataOps methodologies and learn how implementing both can drive better business outcomes for data-driven organizations.

Learn how machine learning can help make your data quality checks more robust, empowering data and analytics engineers to make reliable and accurate data-driven decisions

Five important reasons for why you should consider making data quality a priority now, instead of waiting until it becomes an issue.

How to make the right choice in a market bursting with options

Data observability is an emerging technology that solves an age-old problem: understanding the state of data systems to increase awareness and trust.

Learn how to extract and use data lineage in Snowflake to optimize your data pipelines and improve data engineering workflows.

Discover how to ensure your data is fresh and up-to-date in Snowflake with two essential tools: the MAX function and the LAST_ALTERED column.

Master Data Freshness in Google BigQuery: Keep your insights up-to-date and your decisions data-driven with our guide to monitoring table and view updates in BigQuery.

Understand your data better in Amazon Redshift with accurate row counts. Discover how using COUNT functions and system statistics can optimize your data management.

Explore various methods to obtain row counts in Snowflake, from simple SQL queries to leveraging table statistics, for performance optimization and data analysis.

A comprehensive guide on retrieving row counts in tables and views for Google BigQuery. We detail practical methods, discuss their trade-offs, and provide useful code snippets.

How much data do we need to reconstruct a useful picture of our data? That’s the question we attempt to answer in this article. The groupings of questions we need to answer in order to describe our data are the “pillars” that underlie data observability in 2023.

Data engineers use unit testing for data quality today, but quality assurance needs more. In this post, we offer best practices for robust data quality standards.

Understand 5 key sources of data quality issues: input errors, infrastructure failures, incorrect transformations, invalid assumptions, and ontological misalignment. Learn to combat these with smart strategies to turn data into your strongest asset.

Predicting the future of data observability: 10 years from now, automation and generic metadata will be key in incident management and data management.

Metaplane adds WHERE clauses to monitor configurations, enabling targeted data segment monitoring. Useful for adapting to business changes or focusing on specific areas, like pricing updates or new service launches.

Data observability is vital for ensuring high-quality data and informed decision-making. We cover its benefits, challenges, and how it impacts businesses.

You can now manage your Metaplane monitors alongside your other model configuration options in dbt.

We've redesigned incidents from the ground up to help you identify the root cause with confidence and communicate with stakeholders with ease.

Metaplane's new Daily Update Slack message helps turn down the noise by putting all of our less-timely updates into a single, convenient spot.

Metaplane now provides helpful suggestions to help you ensure that all your most important tables and columns are monitored.

Metaplane has built a new way to manage your monitors, including improved filtering, bulk actions, and increased visibility into the status of your monitors.

A deep dive into the technologies we used to build Metaplane's new column-level lineage map, and the lessons we learned about SQL parsing along the way.

Metaplane's new lineage visualization helps you prevent downstream issues, identify root causes, and spread data awareness across your organization.

We built Metaplane for data engineers, and we’re always on the lookout for ways we can help you make your monitoring more robust, more flexible, and more powerful. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce our first public API.

Easily monitor specific data segments with Metaplane's new partition monitors to identify root causes of data quality issues in seconds.

Metaplane now supports Microsoft Power BI. When you connect Metaplane to Power BI, our platform automatically ingests metadata about workspaces, reports, and dashboards and builds table level lineage.

Data Test Previews gives busy data teams a hand by automatically testing any changes made to their data in a development branch.

We've raised $8.4M in funds to bring data observability to every data team.

Great Expectations is suited for catching known issues by testing binary criteria on critical tables. Metaplane is suited for catching unknown issues by testing scalar criteria on a wide range of assets.

dbt tests are suited for catching known issues, by testing binary criteria on critical tables. Metaplane is suited for catching unknown issues, by testing scalar criteria on a wide range of assets.

Orchard Analytics is an analytics consultancy that builds data infrastructure for high-growth companies. With Metaplane, Orchard Analytics and their clients are now the first to know about data quality issues. This not only builds trusted data sets for their clients, but also establishes Orchard Analytics as a trusted partner.

More words of wisdom on how to build data teams starting with the first hire, keeping up with changing roles, and taking care of the people on your team.

We now support PagerDuty as a destination for data incidents, so that users can be paged once for groups of related alerting monitors, rather than per individual alerting monitor.

Insights from the best in the business on transitioning into analytics engineering, identifying your strengths, thriving in your organization, and charting the path forward.

We’re delighted to announce that Metaplane has joined the Snowflake Partner Network, empowering data teams with superior quality and observability.

Metaplane now integrates with GitHub for impact analysis on dbt pull requests. Know which models and BI assets are affected by changes, share analysis with stakeholders, and see data incident causes via dbt history.

South African data consultancy Horizon Data's founder shares how Metaplane helped his team move from reactive to proactive data quality monitoring for high-growth startups.

Data quality has a profound impact on the success of an organization. In this blog post, we highlight what it is, why it matters, what challenges it presents, and key practices for improving it.

Incidents help group together related failing tests so data teams can be the first to know about data quality issues.

Need to streamline your data quality issue management process? In this blog post, we take inspiration from site reliability engineering to craft a six-step process for handling your data incidents.

If you already know data observability would benefit your company, but don't how to evaluate, buy, and implement it, this blog post is for you.

If you're ready to adopt data observability but don't know which path to take, this post is for you. Discover the benefits, costs, and risks of building a tool from scratch, leveraging open-source software, and buying a commercial solution.

As the new kid on the block, data observability often goes misunderstood. In this blog post, we strive to correct the misconceptions we hear most frequently.

As data observability tools grow in popularity, many data leaders are asking themselves, “Does my team need one?” In this blog post, we share six signs you need one and three signs you don't.

Product-led companies are fundamentally data-driven. Data about the product, customers, and users facilitates every part of the PLG business and the product behind it. Given the central role of data, problems with data quality can have massive impacts on revenue, customer sentiment, team efficiency, and strategy and forecasting.

Jason's post on AE roundup inspired so many ideas that they have overflowed into a post.

Snowflake debuted their native application framework at Summit 2022, which is poised to change how software is deployed on top of data. Metaplane has built the first data observability application that can be deployed directly within your Snowflake instance, for enhanced security and ease-of-adoption.

From getting to know hundreds of data teams, we've discovered that the most common data quality challenges result from both human and machine errors. Here are the top five problems we've encountered.

From 'Tech Bros talk Data Scams' to 'Thoughtful Data Modeling', here are 11 data leaders making waves in 2023.

Metaplane now monitors table+column usage analytics for Snowflake: understand how critical data is used, what should be tested, and how to prioritize data quality issues.

Learn about Metaplane's warehouse to BI tool data lineage visualization tool and how you can build data awareness, prevent downstream BI issues, and decrease data debt.

The people traditionally most concerned with data quality are naturally the people debugging data issues themselves, being analytics teams. Conversations around data quality have been focused around data pipeline tests and anomaly detection. What about ensuring data quality both upstream and downstream of analytics workflows?

Practical guide to using metadata effectively and assessing metadata-driven tools like discovery and observability offerings.

Starting as a data analyst can be intimidating, but it doesn't have to be! Lucas Smith shares six steps you can take to become a great data analyst.

We interview Ben Cohen, a seasoned data leader from Cars.com, Braintree, Cameo, and now SpotOn.

Security has been a priority from Day One, now affirmed with a SOC 2.