Technology automates key governance tasks such as data classification, access control, and telemetry instrumentation. With the right tools, like a data observability platform, organizations can enforce policies at scale, detect anomalies automatically, and integrate governance into daily workflows. This reduces manual effort and ensures governance grows with the business.

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.

Sifflet’s AI agent, Sage, performs root cause analysis by combining metadata, query logs, code changes, and historical incidents to build a full narrative of the issue. This speeds up resolution and provides context-rich insights, making it easier to pinpoint and fix data pipeline issues efficiently.

Yes, many open-source ETL tools like Airbyte or Talend can be extended to support observability features. By integrating them with a cloud data observability platform like Sifflet, you can add layers of telemetry instrumentation, anomaly detection, and alerting. This ensures your open-source stack remains robust, reliable, and ready for scale.

Smart alerting helps your team focus on what really matters. Instead of flooding your Slack with every minor issue, a good observability tool prioritizes alerts based on business impact and data asset importance. This reduces alert fatigue and ensures the right people get notified at the right time. Look for platforms that offer customizable severity levels, real-time alerts, and integrations with your incident management tools like PagerDuty or email alerts.

Data observability helps align technical metrics with strategic business goals. By monitoring real-time metrics and enabling root cause analysis, teams can quickly detect and resolve data issues, reducing downtime and improving decision-making. It’s not just about the data, it’s about the impact that data has on your business.

Sifflet stands out as a metadata control plane that connects technical reliability with business context. Unlike point solutions, it offers AI-native automation, full data lineage tracking, and cross-functional accessibility, making it ideal for organizations that need to scale trust in their data across teams.

MCP helps LLMs become active participants in data quality monitoring by giving them access to structured resources like schema definitions, data validation rules, and profiling metrics. At Sifflet, we use this to detect anomalies, enforce data contracts, and ensure SLA compliance more effectively.