Watch the tables leadership trusts
Start with the handful of marts that power ARR, burn, and ops KPIs — expand coverage later.
Use case · Leadership
Executive KPI trust
Know the KPI tables are fresh before the Monday leadership meeting.
The problem
The exec dashboard still loads. The number is yesterday’s. Nobody notices until the CFO asks why ARR moved — and the answer is “the table went quiet Friday.”
The outcome
Name the tables that feed executive KPIs. VectorData watches last-modified metadata against your thresholds and alerts once when freshness breaks — before the meeting starts.
Per table
SLA hours you set on KPI sources
1 alert
Per root cause for the KPI stack
No row reads
Timestamps & counts only
Capabilities
Clear freshness SLAs
Hours, not vibes. Warning and critical states you can put in the runbook.
History for the incident note
Lag sparklines and status over time — pasteable context for the exec thread.
Tied to dbt health
When the upstream model fails, Watchdog shows the KPI impact in the same queue.
- ✓Built on the same freshness monitoring as /vectordata/freshness
- ✓Metadata-only BigQuery access via service account
- ✓Works in the browser demo before you connect a project
- ✓Starter covers watched tables; Pro scales the reliability surface
Related
Watchdog / Fix first
AI ranks stale tables, failed dbt runs, and cost spikes into one Fix-first queue.
Read →Board deck confidence
Freeze the numbers that go in the board pack — with a freshness check first.
Read →Data contracts / SLOs
Freshness targets and owner expectations per table — on the roadmap.
Read →Pipeline on-call
Escalation and mute windows for data incidents — without pager chaos.
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