Sources Dashboard

Paradime’s Sources Dashboard provides detailed insights into data source freshness and health, enabling teams to monitor and optimize data inputs for reliable analytics operations.

The Sources Dashboard, part of Paradime's Radar suite, offers comprehensive insights into the freshness and health of your data sources. This tool enables teams to proactively manage their data sources, ensuring the reliability and accuracy of downstream analytics processes.

Prerequisites

• Completed dbt™ Monitoring setup in Radar's Get Started guide.

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The Sources dashboard is divided into two main sections:

1. Overview: Provides a high-level summary of all data sources. [link]

2. Detailed: Offers in-depth analytics for individual sources. [link]

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Overview Section

The Overview section gives you a broad perspective on your data sources' health and freshness, allowing you to uncover key insights, including:

1. Source Freshness Overview

Value: Quickly assess the freshness status of your source tables.

How to use:

• Monitor the number of sources in each freshness category (Fresh, Warn, Stale, Errored).

• Identify potential issues by focusing on non-fresh sources.

• Track these metrics over time to ensure overall data freshness is maintaining or improving.

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2. Current Source Tables Status Details

Value: View detailed information about the current freshness status of source tables.

How to use:

• Click dropdowns to review individual sources.

• Identify which sources or tables may need attention based on their status.

• Use the search functionality to quickly find specific sources or tables.

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3. Source Health Monitoring

Value: Monitor the overall health of your data sources over time.

How to use:

• Observe the overall health trend of your sources.

• Identify any patterns or recurring issues in source freshness.

• Use this information to prioritize source maintenance and optimization efforts.

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Detailed Section

The Detailed section allows you to dive deep into individual source performance, providing comprehensive insights such as:

1. Individual Source Freshness Status

Value: Get a detailed view of freshness status for a specific source.

How to use:

• Select a specific source to analyze its current freshness status.

• Use this information to quickly assess the health of critical data sources.

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2. Data Source Freshness Details

Value: Analyze detailed freshness information for each table within a source.

How to use:

• Review freshness criteria, status, and last loaded times for each table.

• Identify tables that may be approaching warning or error thresholds.

• Use this information for proactive maintenance of your data sources.

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3. Freshness Trends Analysis

Value: Understand how source freshness evolves over time.

How to use:

• Observe trends in the number of passed and errored sources over time.

• Identify any recurring patterns or improvements in source freshness.

• Use these insights to assess the impact of any optimization efforts.

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How to Apply Filters

1. Locate the "Select date range" dropdown at the top of both Overview and Detailed sections.

2. In the Detailed section, use the "Select a source" dropdown to focus on a specific data source.

3. The dashboard will automatically update to reflect your selections, allowing for focused analysis over your chosen time period and source.