Freshness (Update Time Gap)

Overview

The Freshness(Update Time Gap) monitor detects when the time between ingestion diverges from the regular timeline.

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Metadata Monitoring

Metadata can be defined as information about data, including its structure and transformations applied to it. Metadata monitoring helps identify and address issues related to data integration, and data transformations.

As data volumes and complexities continue to grow, metadata monitoring is becoming increasingly crucial for maintaining a reliable and trustworthy data ecosystem.

How to

Parameters

Excluded Dates: Select a calendar (e.g., France Public Holidays, Weekends) to exclude specific days from alert and incident creation.

Training Time

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.

Schedule

This monitor depends heavily on a schedule, if you refresh your data every day, ensure you run this monitor every hour!

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Recommended

Use an @hourly schedule to get one point per hour

Graph

The freshness(Update time Gap) graph shows the number of hours/days since the last update.

Supported Databases

  • Snowflake
  • Bigquery
  • Databricks
  • Oracle
  • Mysql