Sifflet's glossary

Asset

A Data Asset refers to any object that contains/transforms data: a data table, a dashboard, a DAG, a dbt Model, a bucket S3, etc.

Incident

In Sifflet, an Incident is issued when a rule run fails. The incident object allows to document and track the investigation and resolution of the issue root cause.

Monitor

A Monitor is a class of quality criteria that can be applied to a table/field based on chosen variables.

Platform

A Platform represents a provider of data that Sifflet connects to. For instance: BigQuery, Snowflake, Looker, etc.
One platform can contain several sources (see definition of source further below)

Source

In Sifflet, a Source represents an external system or tool that Sifflet can connect to and retrieve metadata from: a data warehouse, BI tool, EL/ETL, orchestrator, data lake, etc.

A source (or a data source) usually corresponds to the second-highest granularity within the external system (schema level, dataset level for BigQuery, etc.). For instance, for one Snowflake database, multiple Sifflet Sources may be configured, each corresponding to a specific schema.