Data pipeline health is just as important as data quality

Masthead enabled us to elevate data trust at Tranzzo, empowering our organization to make data-informed decisions with confidence. With Masthead, our team can collaboratively maintain complete control over all data tables and pipeline health, and ensure data reliability at scale and available to every business user in time. Shortly after deploying, Masthead enabled us to reduce the rate of crucial data absence by 30%.

Before Masthead, the team would spend hours and hundreds of messages on Slack to decide where the problem was and if there was a problem at all. We needed a way to look at everything at once, from one common point of view. With Masthead, everyone on the team can instantly see where the problem is coming from and how it’s affecting our work and our stakeholders.

In just 24 hours of onboarding, we uncovered a handful of pesky queries that were wreaking havoc on our project’s compute costs. With Masthead help we slashed our cloud compute expenses by a staggering 20% by swiftly pinpointing and eliminating an unnecessary process.

Ensuring data quality and uptime is of utmost importance to us. We required a secure and cost-effective way to monitor and control our data pipelines. Masthead’s log-based approach offers a comprehensive view of data quality in BigQuery, akin to how DataDog functions for software infrastructure. Masthead ensures that our data pipelines are up and running, thereby guaranteeing no outages in our data system.

Masthead instantly notifies us of any data or pipeline issues and helps our team troubleshoot and resolve these issues without guesswork. The visual lineage provides a comprehensive view of data flows, dependencies, and the potential impacts of data issues, thereby reducing the time it takes us to triage and act on root cause.

One of the main reasons RealTruck chose Masthead was its unique architecture, which does not access our data. Masthead, as a Google Cloud Partner, complementary to Google Cloud BigQuery, is compliant with data privacy and security regulations at the architectural level, ensuring that our data remains secure, helping us to gain granular control of the entire data platform

The main sign of a high ROI product is when it becomes a core part of our monitoring routine. In the case of Masthead, the most critical pipelines of our data platform are monitored by their solution, allowing us to monitor the health of our data platform and ensure that we can proactively address any issue that may arise. In addition, Masthead has a cost management module that allows us to effectively control the ever-growing cost of our data platform and ensure its efficiency