The Data Catalog is your data assets' source of truth. It allows you to:

• Find the asset you are looking for and thoroughly understand it thanks to business and technical context
• Identify unhealthy assets and troubleshoot detected data quality issues
• Quickly access assets you are in charge of
• See a breakdown of your assets across various dimensions (technologies, health, usage, owners, etc.) to optimize your costs by keeping a clean data fleet

Assets that show up on the Data Catalog page depend on the domain selected in the dropdown menu in the top right corner of the page.

Asset List

The list shows all data assets that correspond to the applied search and filters. By default, there are 50 items per page — this number can be customized.

For each single asset, you can see your asset's:

• Technology
• Type
• Name
• Description, which can be automatically extracted from your data source and/or manually edited by your team on Sifflet
• Quality status
• Tags
• Data source name
• Data usage
• Owners
• dbt Transformation (if applicable)

Clicking a specific asset redirects you to the dedicated Asset page.

Quick Actions

Hovering any asset on the list displays an overflow menu at the far right end of each asset row allowing you to:

• Apply Auto-Coverage to the asset
• Edit the tags, business terms, description, and owners of the asset
• Copy the data asset ID

Search

By default, the search covers asset names and descriptions.

You can optionally tick the Search on fields checkbox to also search field names and descriptions for Tables & Views assets.

Sort

You can sort assets by:

• Relevance
• Name

For both, you can decide to sort assets in an ascending or descending order.

Filter

Add filters by ticking boxes; remove them by unticking boxes or clicking Clear at the top of the filter sidebar.

Saving and Reusing Filters

You can save and reuse your filter configurations to quickly access your most common data views. The process to create and use saved filters is the following:

1. Apply any combination of filters on a supported page (Data Catalog, Monitors, or Incidents).
2. Click the Save button that appears once filters are applied.
3. Give your filter set a descriptive name.
4. Next time you visit the page, you can select your saved filter set from a list instead of manually configuring the filters again.

Asset Type

Three types of data assets can populate the Data Catalog depending on the configured integrations:

• Tables & Views
• Dashboards
• Pipelines

Data Source

You can filter on some specific integration technologies or directly on your data source names.

Quality Status

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 and asset has at least one ongoing incident with a Critical severity.
• High risk incidents: asset has at least one configured monitor and asset has at least one ongoing incident with a Low, Moderate, or High severity.
• No incidents: asset has at least one configured monitor and does not have any ongoing incident.
• Not monitored: asset does not have any configured monitor.

Owners

You can filter on the owners assigned to your assets.

Data Usage

You can read more about asset data usage here.

Tags

You can filter assets by any of their tags. You can set up tags in the Settings.

dbt Status

Quickly find assets that are associated with a dbt transformation.

• Success — The model completed successfully.
• Failure — The model execution failed.
• Skipped — The model was skipped because an upstream dependency failed.
• Unknown — The run status could not be identified.
• No Recorded Run — No dbt command targeting the model has been recorded.

Bulk Actions

You can perform bulk actions on your assets:

1. Select one, several or all assets from your search results either by ticking assets' individual checkboxes or by using the checkbox at the top of your Data Catalog.
2. You can then perform two different types of bulk actions on your assets:
   1. Click the Edit button to edit selected assets' tags, business terms, description, owners.
      When multiple assets are selected:
      • Ticking the Remove existing tags/terms/owners checkbox completely empties any tags/terms/owners that might exist on the selected assets.
      • Adding a description replaces the existing description of the selected assets.
   2. Click the Auto Coverage button to bulk create monitors on top of selected assets.

Data Catalog API

With the public Data Catalog API, you can push data from your internal or third-party data catalog tools directly into Sifflet.
This allows you to enrich your assets with richer metadata directly in Sifflet, enabling more robust monitoring. With this API, you can:

• Import metadata from your data catalog into Sifflet
• View data catalog metadata directly on asset pages
• Open assets directly in the data catalog from Sifflet

For more information, check the API documentation.