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, an S3 bucket, etc.

Incident

In Sifflet, an Incident is created when a monitor run fails (if the monitor was configured to create an incident upon failure). The incident object allows to document and track the investigation and resolution of the issue's root cause.

Monitor

A Monitor is a class of quality criteria that can be applied to a table/field (or a combination of tables/fields) 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.