Root Cause Analysis (Sage)

What It Does

Sage helps you quickly understand incidents by:

• Generating a human-readable summary of what happened.
• Highlighting likely root causes and impacted assets.
• Proposing next steps or remediation ideas.

This reduces the time needed to understand incidents and makes incidents more accessible to stakeholders beyond the core data team.

How It Works

• Sage uses an LLM hosted by OpenAI.
• It uses:
  • Monitor and incident metadata (names, descriptions, severities).
  • Relationships between assets and incidents.
  • Historical incident context where available.
  • dbt Run logs when dbt (Core or Cloud) is used to refresh the underlying dataset.

Data Handling

• Sage works on metadata and incident context only.
• No raw data rows are required or sent.