Retailers are adopting data observability to gain real-time visibility into inventory across all channels, reduce stock inaccuracies, and avoid costly misalignments between supply and demand. With data observability tools, they can proactively detect issues, monitor data quality, and improve operational efficiency across their data pipelines.

Successful data governance is measured through KPIs that tie directly to business outcomes. This includes metrics like how quickly teams can find data, how often data quality issues are caught before reaching production, and how well teams follow access protocols. Observability tools help track these indicators by providing real-time metrics and alerting on governance-related issues.

To keep your ingestion pipelines healthy, it's best to use observability tools that offer features like pipeline health dashboards, data quality monitoring, and anomaly detection. These tools provide visibility into data flow, alert you to schema drift, and help with root cause analysis when issues arise.

Real-time metrics are essential for proactive data pipeline monitoring. Sifflet’s observability tools provide real-time alerts and anomaly detection, helping teams quickly identify and resolve issues before they impact downstream systems or violate SLA compliance.

We built Sifflet to be your data stack's early warning system. Our observability platform offers automated data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis, so you can identify and resolve issues before they impact your business. Whether you're scaling your pipelines or preparing for AI initiatives, we help you stay in control with confidence.

As Shippeo scaled, they faced silent data leaks, inconsistent metrics, and data quality issues that impacted billing and reporting. By adopting Sifflet, they gained visibility into their data pipelines and could proactively detect and fix problems before they reached end users.

Sifflet extends its end-to-end data observability to Looker, helping you ensure the data powering your dashboards is accurate and reliable. This means fewer surprises and more confidence in your business insights.

Modern platforms like Snowflake and Amazon S3 expose rich metadata and access patterns that observability tools can monitor. For example, Sifflet integrates with Snowflake to track schema changes, data freshness, and query patterns, while S3 integration enables us to monitor ingestion latency and file structure changes. These capabilities are key for real-time metrics and data quality monitoring.