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Data Pipeline Monitoring Basics

Monitor data pipelines effectively

This guide covers monitoring ETL/ELT pipelines by watching freshness SLAs, row counts, anomaly detection on metrics, and routing alerts to the right owners with runbooks.

Freshness and volume

Monitor last successful run times and row counts against thresholds.

Quality checks

Add schema checks, null thresholds, and distribution anomalies.

Alert routing

Send alerts to on-call or owners with context and links to runbooks.

Review trends

Track incident frequency and fix recurring causes.

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