Asset Page
Overview
Asset pages provide you with more details on the metadata, the usage, the health state of your assets as well as the upstream and downstream dependencies, which allows you to:
- Learn more about your assets and what they are generally used for
- Troubleshoot data issues
- Ensure your data assets are correctly covered by your monitoring
Header
The top of asset pages contains details about the asset's:
- Technology
- Type
- Name
- Fully qualified name: currently available for
Tables & Views
assets and declared assets - Health status
It also allows you to perform various actions on your assets such as: pinning or unpinning the asset to your dashboard, creating a monitor on the asset, viewing the asset on its original technology platform, copy the asset URI or ID.
Pin/Unpin
Clicking the Pin
button allows you to pin your data asset to your Dashboard
page in order to be able to quickly access it when landing on Sifflet's homepage.
To unpin a data asset from your dashboard, click the Unpin
button.
New monitor
Click the New Monitor
button to start creating a monitor on your data asset.
View in
Click the View in <TECHNOLOGY_NAME>
button to open the asset on its original technology platform in a new tab. This is currently available for BI integrations as well as Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks.
Overflow Menu
Click the Copy data asset URI
or Copy data asset ID
buttons to copy the asset URI or ID to your clipboard. This is useful when you want to interact with data assets programmatically (e.g. via API endpoints, monitors as code, etc.).
Overview Tab
The Overview
tab provides you with general information about your asset metadata and overall health status.
Details Section
The Details
section contains details about your asset:
- Data source name
- Last & next metadata refresh dates
- Data usage (only
Tables & Views
,Dashboards
) - Time windows & offset (only
Tables & Views
) - Tags
- Business terms
- Owners
- Description, which can be automatically extracted from your data source and/or manually edited by your team on Sifflet
Time Window & Offset Edit
You can edit the time window and offset parameters of your data asset.
Edit
Clicking the Edit
button allows you to modify your data asset tags, business terms, description, and owners.
SQL
Clicking the SQL
button on your Tables & Views
and Pipelines
assets allows you to see the SQL query associated with your data assets. This often allows you to get even more details on how your data assets pertain to one another.
- For
Tables & Views
assets, the SQL corresponds to the table or view creation query. - For
Pipelines
(dbt models), the shown SQL corresponds to the dbt model source code. If you're interested in the compiled version of the dbt model source code, you should be able to find it looking at the SQL of the model's downstream assets.
Preview data
Clicking Preview data
allows you to preview the first rows of your Tables & Views
data assets. To preview data:
- Select the number of rows you're interested in visualizing
- Tick the
Show all X columns
checkbox or use the dropdown menu to only tick the boxes associated with the columns you are interested in previewing. - A table showing the first rows of your
Tables & Views
shows up.
Once you are done, click Close
or the cross at the top of the modal.
Data Quality Section
The Data Quality
section shows an overview of the Tables & Views
assets' health.
Asset quality status is based on whether or not the asset is covered by monitors as well as on the severity of the incidents impacting the data asset:
- Urgent incidents: asset has at least one configured monitor & asset has at least one ongoing incident with a
Critical
severity. - High risk incidents: asset has at least one configured monitor & asset has at least one ongoing incident with a
Low
,Moderate
, orHigh
severity. - No incidents: asset has at least one configured monitor & does not have any ongoing incident.
- Not monitored: asset does not have any configured monitor.
If the asset is monitored, you can see the list of monitors configured on it as well as the state of incidents that happened on this asset. Clicking See details
redirects you to the Data quality
tab allowing you to dive deeper in the health state of your asset.
If the asset is not monitored, the status of the asset shows up as Not monitored
.
Columns Section
The Columns
section provides you with the number of columns as well as the list of column names and types of your Tables & Views
assets. Clicking See details
redirects you to the Columns
tab which contains more details about the content of your tables, its different versions, etc.
Columns Tab
The Columns
tab provides you with the total number of columns on your asset as well as detailed information about each individual column of your Tables & Views
assets:
- Column name
- Column type
- Column tags (regular tags or classification tags) and business terms
- Monitored or not, indicates whether you have configured monitors on this field or not
- Column description, automatically extracted from your data source and/or manually edited by your team on Sifflet
Edit
Clicking the pencil icon at the end of any field row allows you to modify your fields' tags and descriptions.
You can also tick multiple fields to bulk edit their tags and descriptions.
Search columns
You can use the search bar to quickly sift through your columns and find the one you are interested in. The search is performed on column names.
Preview data
Clicking Preview data
allows you to preview the first rows of your Tables & Views
data assets.
Select the number of rows and tick the boxes associated with the columns you are interested in previewing. A table showing the first rows of your Tables & Views
shows up.
Once you are done, click Close
or the cross at the top of the modal.
Versions
The version dropdown menu allows you to navigate through the different versions of your Tables & Views
assets schemas.
AI Suggestions
Sifflet automatically generates classification tags and description AI suggestions for your Tables & Views
columns.
Data quality Tab
The Data quality
tab of Tables & Views
assets provides you with details about the health of your data asset.
The Incidents
subtab displays any ongoing incidents that might be linked to your data asset.
Toggling on Show closed incidents
allows you to look at both ongoing and closed incidents, making it easy for you to spot any patterns in the anomalies occurring on a given asset.
The Monitors
subtab displays all monitors configured on your data asset, allowing you to assess your asset health state of your asset as well as its monitoring coverage.
Lineage Tab
The Lineage
tab displays all the interactions between your assets down to the field level. You can look either upstream or downstream to perform, for instance, root cause analyses or check the potential impacts of a table on others. For more information, look at this specific section.
Updated 23 days ago