Case Study: Sigma achieves faster data issue detection and workbook visibility with Metaplane

How Sigma uses Metaplane to track impacts to Sigma Workbooks

Sigma, a cloud-native analytics platform, faced the challenge of managing data quality and lineage across a complex, fast-changing data stack. With a small data team supporting over 400 employees, it was difficult to track schema changes, understand the impact of updates on critical reporting workbooks, and quickly detect data issues. They needed a way to gain full visibility into their pipeline without building a costly in-house solution.

To address this, Sigma implemented Metaplane for data observability. The solution monitors their entire pipeline from raw data in Salesforce to curated datasets in Snowflake, providing alerts for issues like freshness and volume changes directly in Slack. This integration with Metaplane enabled Sigma to trace the origin of problems and see their potential impact, resulting in a 5x faster time-to-detection for data issues and significantly improved trust in their data.

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Jake Hannan

Senior Manager, Data Platform