Scenarios & playbooks

Demo scenario

Northwind · Stale orders

orders goes quiet for 3 days — one calm alert, clear blast radius.

Demo scenario

Northwind · Broken dbt run

stg_orders fails tests and blocks revenue marts.

Demo scenario

Northwind · Cost spike

A missing partition filter burns ~$1.9k in one query.

Scenario

Monday exec KPI save

Catching a stale ARR mart before the leadership meeting.

Scenario

Board pack verification

Confirming source freshness the night before the pack.

Scenario

Agency reporting week

Client deck day with freshness SLAs on shared marts.

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Fintech close week

dbt failures grouped before finance close.

Scenario

Ecommerce peak week

Orders freshness + cost guardrails under load.

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SaaS usage mart drift

Schema/test failures before product review.

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Marketplace shared mart

Upstream break with cross-domain blast radius.

Scenario

Lean team on-call

Two analytics engineers, one Fix-first queue.

Scenario

Cost review with finance

Playbook-ready spike context instead of spreadsheet archaeology.