July 2024 Summaries

The Data Insights dashboard is designed to provide clarity and visibility into your data warehouse's performance, usage, and cost issues. It automatically identifies performance and cost problems, allowing users to investigate sudden changes in query performance or cost by simply clicking on and dragging charts. Users can also view historic and related query metrics, such as run and queue time over the past 30 days, number of rows inserted or updated each time a query is run, and total credits used by each user over time. This information can be used to take action, such as adjusting warehouse sizes for certain workloads, refining queries using inefficient joins, or stopping queries that run often without changing the underlying data.

Metaplane has introduced Data CI/CD, which provides a historical record of all Pull Requests (PRs) and data regression tests. This feature allows users to view their code and data changes in one place, with bi-directional linking between PR tests and Metaplane. The integration helps prevent data quality issues by identifying how PRs impact downstream assets and the data itself. By combining metadata of code changes and data changes, users can quickly check if a code change was responsible for any data incident.

The Metaplane Chrome Extension provides a solution for stakeholders to understand data quality at a glance, including upstream incidents, freshness, lineage, and data status in Snowflake. It integrates with popular business intelligence tools and works in all Chromium-based web browsers. The extension is built with security as a priority and can be installed within one minute for existing Metaplane customers. New users can create an account or schedule a time to learn more about data observability best practices from the team.