This checklist is for anyone who relies on trustworthy data—from CDOs and analysts to DataOps teams and engineers. Whether you're focused on data governance, anomaly detection, or building resilient pipelines, the checklist gives you a clear path to choosing the right observability tools.

With Sifflet, you’ll receive real-time alerts for any data quality issues detected in your Firebolt warehouse. These alerts are powered by advanced anomaly detection and data freshness checks, helping you stay ahead of potential problems.

Effective data categorization is essential for data governance and compliance because it helps identify sensitive data like PII, ensuring the correct protection policies are applied. With Sifflet’s classification tags, governance teams can easily locate and safeguard sensitive information, supporting GDPR data monitoring and overall data security compliance.

Great question! With our latest dbt integration update, we’ve unified dbt models and the datasets they generate into a single asset. This means you get richer context and better visibility across your data pipelines, making it easier to track data lineage, monitor data quality, and ensure SLA compliance all from one place.

Traditional monitoring tools focus on infrastructure and application performance, while data observability digs into the health and trustworthiness of your data itself. At Sifflet, we combine metadata monitoring, data profiling, and log analysis to provide deep insights into pipeline health, data freshness checks, and anomaly detection. It's about ensuring your data is accurate, timely, and reliable across the entire stack.

Data observability is the practice of monitoring data as it moves through your pipelines to detect, understand, and resolve issues proactively. It’s crucial because it helps data teams ensure data reliability, improve decision-making, and reduce the time spent firefighting data issues. With the growing complexity of data systems, having a robust observability platform is key to maintaining trust in your data.

Sifflet is ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 compliant, and we use a separate secret manager to handle credentials securely. This setup ensures a strong audit trail and tight access control, making compliance monitoring and audit logging seamless for your data teams.

Data lineage tracking is a key part of data observability because it helps you understand where your data comes from and how it changes over time. With clear lineage, teams can perform faster root cause analysis and collaborate better across business and engineering, which is exactly what platforms like Sifflet enable.