Product
The calm platform for BigQuery & dbt reliability
Monitoring. Data CI triage. Blast radius. AI insights. Calm alerts. Warehouse FinOps. One command center — built like a mature platform, sized for lean teams.
Northwind Outfitters — Dashboards
samplehealth
88
models
13/16
tests
7/10
failed
3
incidents
4
fresh.sli
63%
bq.mtd
$4,203
Vector · Watchdog
Schema drift on fct_orders — 3 noisy failures → 1 calm alert
Root cause · blast 2 marts + exec KPI · est. risk ~$48k/week if leadership trusts the board
Live warehouse telemetry · Past 1h
Pipeline & freshness
Same chrome as /app — try the sidebar, tiles, or Replay
Open workspace →The platform
See it all in one place — for BigQuery & dbt
Datadog-style product breadth. Metaplane-class reliability jobs. A lean wedge you can actually operate: monitoring, lineage impact, data CI, insights, alerts, cost, and trust — with Live / Partial / Soon labeled honestly.
Monitoring
LiveFreshness SLAs on BigQuery and Snowflake, dbt run/test health, and BigQuery cost baselines in one command center.
- ·BQ + Snowflake freshness thresholds
- ·dbt model + test failures
- ·BigQuery job cost baselines & spikes
Lineage & blast radius
LiveSee which KPIs and models sit downstream of a break — impact score, Fix-first, OpenLineage export.
- ·Downstream impact on incidents
- ·Fix-first ranking by blast radius
- ·OpenLineage export — metadata isn’t hostage
PR Data CI / circuit breaker
LiveGitHub Action posts Check Runs + PR comments with Fix-first — fail the PR / block merge when critical models fail.
- ·action/dbt-ci + example workflow
- ·Circuit-breaker: fail Check on bad dbt
- ·Optional block-merge policy for critical models
AI Watchdog insights
LivePlain-language triage: what broke, who feels it, what to fix first — not anomaly theater.
- ·Unified Fix-first queue
- ·AI root-cause summaries
- ·Leadership-ready incident context
Automated calm alerts
LiveOne notification per root cause. In-app + email Live; Slack / PagerDuty stay Coming Soon until the integrations wave.
- ·Root-cause grouping (Live)
- ·Email + in-app (Live)
- ·Slack · PagerDuty (Coming Soon — 3P)
Incident lifecycle
LiveAssign, status, mute, impact score, audit trail, one-click blameless postmortem — not Slack-only paging.
- ·Declare → assign → resolve
- ·Impact score × exec KPI $
- ·Auto-draft postmortem notebooks
Flat-Price Guardian
LiveYour Vectornosis invoice is flat. Guardian watches BigQuery pace vs baseline and warns before finance sees the bill.
- ·Month-end spend forecast
- ·Hard cap thresholds
- ·Kill-switch recommendations on spike jobs
Business / semantic checks
LiveCatch wrong WHERE filters and broken revenue logic — green anomaly monitors are not enough.
- ·SQL assertion monitors
- ·Row-count & KPI contracts
- ·Trust score when business checks pass
OpenLineage & portability
LiveExport runs and lineage as OpenLineage events. Leave without rewriting the org.
- ·/api/openlineage emit + export
- ·No proprietary metadata prison
- ·Works with dbt artifacts you already have
Warehouse FinOps
LiveCatch 2× scans and missing partition filters before finance sees the invoice.
- ·Spike detection vs baseline
- ·Top expensive jobs
- ·Playbooks for common fixes
Command center views
LiveMission control for lean teams — freshness, dbt, cost, and Watchdog in one calm surface.
- ·Empty-first workspace + sample Import
- ·Metric strip · DAG · calm routing · Watchdog
- ·Upload run_results.json or load sample
Security & independence
LiveMetadata only. Independent company — not Datadog-owned. Least-privilege SA; rows never leave your warehouse.
- ·BQ INFORMATION_SCHEMA + JOBS
- ·Independent roadmap (post–Metaplane acquisition)
- ·Viewer / Analyst / Admin RBAC
01 · Monitoring
LiveSee warehouse reliability in one place
Like a mature observability platform — multi-warehouse freshness (BigQuery + Snowflake) plus the dbt and cost signals lean teams operate every morning.
- ✓Freshness SLAs on BigQuery INFORMATION_SCHEMA and Snowflake LAST_ALTERED
- ✓dbt run and test status beside warehouse truth
- ✓BigQuery cost baselines so reliability and spend share one ritual
- ✓Explore the sample board before you share credentials
See warehouse reliability in one place
Live02 · Data CI / CD
LiveBlock bad dbt in the pull request
Metaplane’s PR Data CI/CD story is now a VectorData Live path: GitHub Check Run, PR comment with Fix-first, job fails on model/test failures.
- ✓Composite Action under action/dbt-ci
- ✓Uploads run_results.json to /api/webhooks/dbt
- ✓Posts Check Run + PR markdown with Fix-first
- ✓Works with dbt-bigquery or dbt-snowflake artifacts
Block bad dbt in the pull request
Liverun_results.json
Fix first: repair stg_orders
03 · Lineage & impact
LiveKnow the blast radius before the war room
Impact analysis is how mature tools prioritize. VectorData shows downstream KPIs, impact scores, and OpenLineage export so metadata isn’t hostage.
- ✓Incident cards include downstream context
- ✓Fix-first ranking by blast radius + exec $
- ✓OpenLineage export for portable lineage
- ✓KPI-linked blast radius on the service map
Know the blast radius before the war room
LiveBlast radius
- 1.orders · stale
- 2.fct_revenue · downstream
- 3.exec KPI · impact
Partial today · deeper lineage Soon
04 · Data insights
LiveAI that explains the break — then gets out of the way
Data insights should answer 7am questions: what broke, who feels it, what to fix first. That is Watchdog — not a new category slogan.
- ✓Unified incident queue across freshness, dbt, and cost
- ✓Plain-language AI summaries grounded in metadata
- ✓Suggested next action on the critical path
- ✓Shareable context for standup and exec threads
AI that explains the break — then gets out of the way
LiveAI · Watchdog
Schema drift on fct_orders
AI root cause · blast radius → exec KPI · est. risk if stale
05 · Automated alerts
LiveCalm routing beats another Slack storm
Mature alerting is rarity + clarity. VectorData groups by root cause; email is Live; Slack/PagerDuty stay Coming Soon as third-party apps.
- ✓One notification per root cause (Live)
- ✓In-app queue + email delivery (Live)
- ✓Mute windows + incident assign/status (Live)
- ✓Slack · PagerDuty Coming Soon (3P)
Calm routing beats another Slack storm
LiveCalm alert
Not 12 Slack pings for child models
06 · Cost & FinOps
LiveStop BigQuery bill shock with playbooks
Warehouse FinOps belongs next to reliability. Spike detection, job identity, and partition-filter playbooks ship in the same command center.
- ✓Flag jobs that run 2×+ vs baseline
- ✓Surface top expensive queries with owners
- ✓Pair with the free cost calculator
- ✓Keep monitoring on a flat plan — no second surprise invoice
Stop BigQuery bill shock with playbooks
LiveFlagged query
$1,940
missing partition filter
07 · Dashboards & collaboration
LiveA shared reliability view — not twenty private tabs
Metaplane’s dashboards story is about shared truth. VectorData’s command center is the lean-team version: one calm surface stakeholders can open.
- ✓Health tiles for freshness, dbt, and spend
- ✓Event stream + Fix-first queue
- ✓Load sample board for demos and onboarding
- ✓Same URL for engineering and operators
A shared reliability view — not twenty private tabs
Live08 · Trust layer
LiveMetadata only — security review that can finish
Mature platforms earn trust with a clear access model. VectorData never needs your rows to tell you a table is stale.
- ✓INFORMATION_SCHEMA, JOBS, dbt artifacts
- ✓Least-privilege service account
- ✓Public security page for reviewers
- ✓Revoke access anytime
Metadata only — security review that can finish
LiveAccess model
Breadth with honesty
Built to win the bake-off — not apologize in the footnotes
PR Data CI/CD and multi-warehouse freshness (BigQuery + Snowflake) are Live. Metaplane may still go wider on deep lineage catalogs and anomaly sprawl — VectorData wins the lean-team morning check and the PR gate.
| Area | Metaplane-class job | VectorData today | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | Broad warehouse monitors + anomalies | Freshness + dbt + cost — BigQuery & Snowflake | Live |
| Multi-warehouse | Many warehouses out of the box | BigQuery + Snowflake freshness (Live); more adapters next | Live |
| Lineage & impact | Deep lineage / impact analysis | Blast radius on incidents; deeper maps Soon | Partial |
| Data CI/CD | PR-time data quality workflows | GitHub Check Run + PR comment + fail-on-fail (Live) | Live |
| Data insights | Usage & stack insights | AI Watchdog triage insights (Live) | Live |
| Automated alerts | Multi-channel alerting | Calm root-cause alerts; more channels Soon | Partial |
| Dashboards | Custom DQ dashboards | Command center + shared demo views (Live) | Live |
| Schema drift | Schema change alerts | dbt tests Live; dedicated drift Soon | Partial |
| Job monitoring | Pipeline latency / jobs | BigQuery JOBS cost + duration path | Live |
Prefer a bake-off? VectorData vs Metaplane → or vs Datadog →
Security
Metadata only. Rows never leave BigQuery.
Table timestamps, dbt artifacts, job statistics — never row samples. Least-privilege service account. Revoke anytime.
Read the security model →Start with the live product
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