Great question! At Sifflet, we believe data observability is about operationalizing trust, not just catching issues. It’s the foundation for reliable data pipelines, helping teams ensure data quality, track lineage, and resolve incidents quickly so business decisions are always based on trustworthy data.

Absolutely! Sifflet Insights connects to your broader observability platform, giving you visibility into data pipeline health right from your BI dashboards. It helps track incidents, monitor data freshness, and detect anomalies before they impact your business decisions.

At Sifflet, we consider data lineage a core part of Full Data Stack Observability because it connects data quality monitoring with data discovery. By mapping data dependencies, teams can detect anomalies faster, perform accurate root cause analysis, and maintain trust in their data pipelines.

A great data observability tool should offer automated data quality checks like data freshness checks and schema change detection, field-level data lineage tracking for root cause analysis, and a powerful metadata search engine. These capabilities streamline incident response and help maintain data governance across your entire stack.

Data observability integrates across your existing data stack, from ingestion tools like Airflow and AWS Glue to storage solutions like Snowflake and Redshift. It acts as a monitoring layer that provides real-time insights and alerts across each stage, helping teams maintain pipeline health and ensure data freshness checks are always in place.

Sifflet stands out by offering a unified observability platform that combines data cataloging, monitoring, and data lineage tracking in one place. Unlike tools that focus only on anomaly detection or technical metrics, Sifflet brings in business context, empowering both technical and non-technical users to collaborate and ensure data reliability at scale.

Schema monitoring helps catch unexpected changes in your data structure before they break downstream systems like dashboards or ML models. It's a core capability in any modern observability platform because it ensures data reliability and prevents silent failures in your pipelines.

A modern data stack typically includes tools for ingestion, warehousing, transformation and business intelligence. For example, you might use Fivetran for ingestion, Snowflake for warehousing, dbt for transformation and Looker for analytics. Investing in the right observability tools across this stack is key to maintaining data reliability and enabling real-time metrics that support smart, data-driven decisions.