February 2023 Summaries

Fivetran Integration with Metaplane: Enhanced Data Ecosystem Insights and Incident Resolution Modern data teams leverage powerful ELT tools like Fivetran to manage their complex data ecosystems. Metaplane, a data observability platform, now integrates with Fivetran, offering users a comprehensive view of their entire data infrastructure. This integration allows for quicker identification and resolution of data issues by tracing the upstream lineage all the way back to the Fivetran connector. Metaplane syncs Fivetran connectors and derives lineage from warehouse schemas, tables, and columns, providing a complete overview of the data ecosystem. Users can also view downstream lineage from each Fivetran connector entity page for better understanding of how everything fits together. This integration ultimately helps data teams save time on diagnosing issues and focus more on fixing them.

Microsoft Teams Integration: Metaplane now supports Microsoft Teams, allowing users to configure incident alerts for databases, schemas, tables, and columns. Metaplane sends notifications in MS Teams when machine learning models identify data quality issues or schema changes. Impact analysis is included in every notification. This integration enables seamless communication and collaboration within teams using Teams as their primary communication hub, raising awareness about the importance of data quality across organizations.

Metaplane introduces Partition Monitors to help data teams identify data quality issues in specific segments of their data. This feature allows users to monitor important metadata like row count, nullness, distribution and more for particular segments of a table without writing any code. Partition monitors can be used to monitor raw data or business metrics, helping companies quickly spot anomalies and understand the root cause and downstream impact in seconds. Examples include monitoring row counts for events by product type, leads by marketing channel, order values by product type, sales revenue by region or rep, and conversion rate by marketing channel.

Metaplane now supports Microsoft Power BI integration, allowing users to automatically ingest metadata about workspaces, reports, and dashboards. This feature enables data awareness, impact previews for changes made in a model, and incident impact analysis for data anomalies. With this integration, data teams can proactively communicate with stakeholders about potential issues and ensure the accuracy of their Power BI dashboards.