Company
Date Published
Author
Gleb Mezhanskiy
Word count
803
Language
English
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None

Summary

Datafold is addressing the challenges faced by data teams in maintaining data integrity, scaling pipelines, and ensuring data quality across complex systems by introducing Monitors, a real-time monitoring product. This release transforms Datafold into a unified platform for proactive data quality management, offering tools for every stage of the data workflow, including automated reconciliation for data migrations, CI/CD testing, and comprehensive data observability. With Monitors, teams can detect and resolve data quality issues early, using features like data diffs, anomaly detection in key metrics, and schema change alerts. The platform aims to reduce development times and data quality incidents by integrating monitoring and testing into existing workflows and providing insights into potential data issues. Datafold plans to expand its capabilities by integrating deeper insights and automating manual processes to enhance the efficiency of data engineering workflows.