Glossary

Shared language for freshness, blast radius, calm alerts, and metadata-only access.

Steps

Freshness
How recently a table’s data was updated, measured from warehouse metadata.
Calm alert
One notification per root cause instead of a page storm of children.
Watchdog
Ranked Fix-first incident queue across signals.
Metadata-only
Monitoring without reading business row payloads.
Blast radius
Downstream dashboards/KPIs affected when a table or model fails.