Product Release 2024-05-30

by Margot Lepizzera

🛠 Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that caused Big Query partitioning not to be taken into account for some monitors.

App version: v257

Product Release 2024-05-29

by Margot Lepizzera

✨ Feature Highlights

Bulk Edit Monitors Severity

Assigning the appropriate severity to a monitor is instrumental to ensure data quality issues are tackled with the right level of urgency by your teams. You can now bulk edit your monitors' severity, making it easier for you to update your monitor suite to ensure it is set to the proper criticality level.

Bulk Edit Monitors Severity

Read more about monitors

🛠 Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that caused user-entered dashboard descriptions to be overwritten during source refreshes.

App version: v256

Product Release 2024-05-29

by Margot Lepizzera

✨ Feature Highlights

Credentials Now Redacted by Default

The content of credentials is now by default obfuscated when you edit them to simplify compliance with security teams requirements.

Default Credential Obfuscation

To read more about credentials

App version: v255

Product Release 2024-05-27

by Margot Lepizzera

✨ Feature Highlights

Improved Classification and Documentation Recommendations

Sifflet AI Assistant was updated in order to:

  • Provide better columns classification tags and documentation recommendations by leveraging OpenAI GPT-4o
  • Optimise its performance and reduce its footprint on your environment when performing AI suggestions
Optimized AI Suggestions

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Simplified Compliance With 20+ New Classification Tags

Sifflet AI Assistant recognizes 20+ new classifiers such as Email Address, Credit Card Number, IP Address or Login Details. Sifflet AI Assistant detects columns to which these classifiers apply and suggests them as classification tags, helping you categorise your data and consequently simplify data governance and compliance with regulation.

Additional Classification Tags

Read more about AI Suggestions and classification tags

Sifflet Insights Now Features Ownerships for Simpler Collaboration

Sifflet Insights (Sifflet browser extension) now surfaces information about assets' owners. This means data stakeholders can now know who to contact in case of issue or question on the dashboard they are looking at without even leaving their BI tool.

Asset Owners Chrome Extension

Read more about Sifflet Insights

New "Creator" Monitor Filter

You can now locate monitors you and people on your team created more easily thanks to Monitors list's new Creator filter category.

Read more about monitors

App version: v253

Product Release 2024-05-22

by Margot Lepizzera

✨ Feature Highlights

Document and Classify Your Data in One-Click

You can now enrich your Data Catalog in one-click thanks to Sifflet AI Assistant new capability. Clicking the Generate metadata button on your data assets now indeed generates:

  • Columns classification suggestions to help teams categorize Tables & Views assets' columns in a more accurate and comprehensive manner.
  • Descriptions recommendations to enrich data assets documentation and ensure the content of datasets' columns is clear to all data stakeholders.

Learn more about AI Suggestions

Select Multiple Tables in Custom SQL Monitors

Available for Custom Metrics and Custom SQL

You can now select multiple tables when creating a Custom SQL monitor, this will allow the monitor to be linked to multiple tables at once but what it also truly unlocks is the power of AI to generate even more advanced Monitors, joining tables automatically and on demand !

Sifflet's AI Assistant will attempt to join tables together with the context of the tables' schemas and column descriptions! (if you identify your column as foreign key in the description that will be taken into account! )


🛠 Fixes

  • [Data Catalog] Fixed a bug that was preventing some search parameters (search terms, search on fields selection, page, and number of items per page) from being maintained during a Data Catalog navigation.

App version: v252

Product Release 2024-05-14

by Margot Lepizzera

✨ Feature Highlights

Freshness Improvements

Sifflet has in the past primarily been doing Freshness based on the distribution of the data, checking that data points with new dates were added. However this does not cover all freshness usecases, such as reloading a dimension table without a date field. In those cases what I want to check if if the data reload occurred within the usual time range !

New Template: Freshness (Update Time Gap)

This template can be applied to any table and will use the Table Metadata available to build up a history of typical time gaps between updates.

Due to the lack of history available, this monitor needs training time to be effective so you will need to wait a few data update cycles for a nice looking graph !


Supported Databases:

  • Snowflake
  • Bigquery
  • Databricks
  • Oracle
  • Mysql


🛠 Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that caused recurring data source update failures in some large environments.

Product Release 2024-05-06

by Margot Lepizzera

Release: New monitors wizard, Rolling aggregation for monitors with dynamic thresholds

✨ Feature Highlights

New monitors wizard

We have improved the monitor's creation experience on the UI by introducing a redesigned wizard. This new user experience streamlines navigation within the monitor's templates, providing users with more precise guidance on setting parameters tailored to their specific use cases. We will continue improving this experience with more to come in the coming releases.

Rolling aggregation for monitors with dynamic thresholds

Introducing a new addition to our monitoring capabilities, detect anomalies using rolling aggregation alongside dynamic thresholds. Every monitor run will aggregate data based on user-defined rolling time intervals. For instance, users can set up monitors to run daily and detect anomalies in the total number of orders over the past seven days using dynamic thresholds. This feature is compatible with the following monitor templates:

  • Metric (Dynamic)
  • Duplicate Count (Dynamic)
  • Duplicate Percentage (Dynamic)
  • Null Count (Dynamic)
  • Null Percentage (Dynamic)


App version: v246

Release: Improved Dataset Selector for Monitoring.

✨ Feature Highlights

Search Datasource Names, Databases and Schema Names in Monitoring Asset Selector

When looking for the right asset to monitor you may find that you have multiple copies of the same name! If you know the datasource name, schema or database you are now able to add those to your search and find your asset faster

Search Datasource Names, Schemas and Databases

Search Datasource Names, Schemas and Databases

App version: v237

Product Release 2024-04-15

by Margot Lepizzera

Release: Synapse integration

✨ Feature Highlights

Synapse Integration

Sifflet now supports Azure Synapse dedicated SQL pool. Users can connect Sifflet to their Azure Synapse for documentation purposes through the catalog and apply all Sifflet monitors to their data assets to achieve data trust. Read this documentation to learn more about the integration steps.

App version: v231

Release: Improved Domain Asset Selection

✨ Feature Highlights

New and Improved Domain Asset Selection!

Sifflet Admins can create domains to organise and limit access to a portion of all the catalogued assets available in Sifflet. After many discussions with you, our customers!, this process has now been drastically improved.

Domains ensure your SIfflet users can only see/monitor the assets that they should!

Domains ensure your SIfflet users can only see/monitor the assets that they should!

The asset selection has been improved to reflect the same User Friendly experience you're familiar with in the Data Catalog section of sifflet!

Search and Filter to find the relevant assets and add them to your domain in a few clicks!

Selects assets as you would in the Sifflet Catalog!

Selects assets as you would in the Sifflet Catalog!

Your assets neatly display in your domain ready for reviewing and saving!

Your assets neatly display in your domain ready for reviewing and saving!

What's Next for Domain Asset Selection? - Dynamic filters, when you don't want to select specific assets, specify a filter&search criteria and assets will automatically be added to the domain !

App version: v229