Reduce BigQuery costs

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.

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.

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.

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.