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🧑‍🎓 Monte Carlo University

  • Getting Started | MC University
  • Monte Carlo 101 | Platform Overview
    • 🧑‍🎓 What is Data Observability?
    • 🧑‍🎓 Domains
    • 🧑‍🎓 Key Assets
    • 🧑‍🎓 Incident Feed + IQ
    • 🧑‍🎓 Assets + Warehouse Glossary
    • 🧑‍🎓 Lineage
    • 🧑‍🎓 Dashboards
    • 🧑‍🎓 Insights
  • Monte Carlo 102 | Notifications and Monitors
    • 🧑‍🎓 Audiences
    • 🧑‍🎓 Notifications
    • 🧑‍🎓 Notifications 2.0
    • 🧑‍🎓 Monitors Overview
    • 🧑‍🎓 Out of the Box ML Monitors: Freshness, Volume, Schema
    • 🧑‍🎓 Custom ML Monitors
    • 🧑‍🎓 Custom Rules Based Monitors
  • Monte Carlo 103 | Automation
    • 🧑‍🎓 Performance
    • 🧑‍🎓 Monte Carlo API
    • 🧑‍🎓 Monitors as Code
    • 🧑‍🎓 Notifications as Code
    • 🧑‍🎓 Filtering Lineage nodes
    • 🧑‍🎓 Monte Carlo Python SDK
    • 🧑‍🎓 Integrating Airflow
    • 🧑‍🎓 SSO, User Groups and Permissions
    • 🧑‍🎓 Filtering vs Muting Assets
    • 🧑‍🎓 Filtering out Datasets
    • 🧑‍🎓 Muting Projects, Datasets or Tables
    • 🧑‍🎓 Exclusion Windows

Resource Center

  • Monte Carlo at a Glance
    • Quick Start Guide
  • Change Log
  • Assets
    • Muting
    • Tags
    • Using Assets
  • Field Lineage
  • Intro to monitors
    • Intro to automated monitoring
    • Intro to opt-in monitoring
    • Intro to rules-based monitoring
  • Setting up monitors
    • Setting up Field Health Monitors
    • Setting up Dimension Tracking Monitors
    • Setting up JSON Schema Monitors
    • Setting up Freshness Rules
    • Setting up Volume Rules
    • Setting up SQL Rules
    • Setting up Performance Monitors
  • Incidents
    • Interacting with Incidents
  • Dashboards
    • Performance
    • Using the Data Reliability Dashboard
    • Using the Table Health Dashboard
    • Using Data Product Dashboards
  • Insights
    • Importance Score Calculation
    • Insight: Key Assets
    • Insight: Coverage Overview
    • Insight: Table Cleanup Suggestions
    • Insight: Field-level Cleanup Suggestions
    • Insight: Field importance scores
    • Insight: Events
    • Insight: Table Read/Write Activity
    • Insight: Rule and SLI Results
    • Insight: Dimension Tracking Suggestions
    • Insight: Field Health Suggestions
    • Insight: Misconfigured Monitors
    • Insight: BI Dashboard Analytics
    • Insight: Incident History
    • Insight: Heavy Queries
    • Insight: Consumption by user
    • Insight: Notifications by custom monitor
    • Insight: Unmonitored Tables
  • Settings
    • Authorization
    • Creating a notification in Monte Carlo
    • Notifications 2.0
  • Single Sign On (SSO)
    • Map SSO Groups to Authorization Groups
    • FAQs and Troubleshooting
  • Advanced usage
    • PII Filtering
    • Muting schemas/tables using regex
    • Setting up dataset/schema controls
    • Locally setting up Monitors as Code

Data Health Monitoring

  • Monitors Overview
  • Opt In Monitors
    • Field Health Monitors
    • Field Metrics
  • Custom Rule Monitors
    • Custom Monitors - SQL Rules
    • Freshness Rules
    • Volume Rules
    • Field Quality Rules
    • Reducing noise from rules
    • Comparison Rules
  • Misconfigured Monitors
  • Failure Notifications
  • Partition Filtering for Monitors
  • Field Profiling

Developer Resources

  • Getting Started
  • Monte Carlo API
    • General
    • Integrations
    • Lineage
    • Monitors
  • API Explorer
  • Using the CLI
  • Using the SDK
  • Monitors as Code
    • Notifications as Code
    • Generating MC monitors from dbt tests
    • Notifications as Code 2.0

Architecture & Security

  • Architecture & Deployment Options
  • Deployment & Connecting to Resources
    • Create and register an AWS S3 Data Store (Beta)
    • Create and register a GCP GCS Data Store (Beta)
    • Create and register an Azure Blob Data Store (Beta)
    • Create and register a GCP Agent (Beta)
    • Create and register an AWS Agent (Beta)
  • Security and Compliance
  • Setting Up Monte Carlo

Data Collector

  • Overview
  • Data Asset Validators
  • Hybrid Deployment
    • Deploying the Collector
    • Upgrading the Collector
    • Advanced Configuration
  • Network Connectivity
    • AWS Networking Tips
    • AWS Network Recommender
    • VPC Peering using CloudFormation
    • PrivateLink using CloudFormation
    • AWS Networking Troubleshoot Guide

Data Warehouse Integrations

  • Overview: Data Warehouses
  • BigQuery
  • Redshift
  • Snowflake
  • Postgres (beta)
  • SQL Server (beta)
  • MySQL (beta)
  • Teradata (beta)
  • Azure Synapse (beta)
  • Azure SQL Database (beta)
  • Oracle DB (beta)
  • Adding Additional Warehouses
  • Using self-hosted credentials

Databricks Integrations

  • Databricks
  • Troubleshooting & FAQ: Databricks
  • Appendix: Databricks
    • Migrating the Databricks Metadata Job to a Job Cluster

Data Lake Integrations

  • Overview: Data Lakes
  • Metastores
    • Glue
    • Hive Metastore
  • Query Engines
    • Athena
    • Presto (beta)
    • Hive SQL (beta)
    • Spark
    • Presto, Hive, & EMR: Query Logs
  • Troubleshooting & FAQ: Data Lakes
  • Appendix: Data Lakes
    • Creating IAM Roles
    • Auto-generating IAM Policy Documents
    • Creating event notifications
    • Adding Additional Connections

BI Integrations

  • Overview: BI
  • Looker
    • Troubleshooting and FAQs: Looker
  • Tableau
    • Troubleshooting and FAQs: Tableau
  • Power BI
    • Power BI - Credential Creation Process
  • Sigma (beta)
  • Periscope/Sisense (beta)
  • Mode
  • Adding or Modifying BI Connections

Orchestration & Transformation

  • dbt Integration
    • dbt Cloud
    • dbt Core
    • dbt Failures As Monte Carlo Incidents
  • Fivetran Integration
    • Troubleshooting and FAQ: Fivetran
  • Airflow
    • Airflow in Lineage
    • Airflow Incidents and Task Observability
  • Circuit breakers
    • Using providers
  • Prefect (beta)

Notifications & Collaboration

  • Slack
  • MS Teams
  • PagerDuty
  • Opsgenie
  • Webhooks
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • Github
  • Alation
  • Atlan
  • data.world

Anomaly Detection

  • Detectors Overview
    • Freshness Detector
    • Volume Detector
    • Unchanged Size Detector
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Insights
  • Exclusion Windows

🧑‍🎓 Assets + Warehouse Glossary

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What is an Asset?

Description:
Introduction to Assets
Summary of the various tools leveraged in the Asset tab to represent the metadata pulled from the warehouse, data lake, orchestration tools and BI layer.

Additional Resources:

  • https://docs.getmontecarlo.com/docs/assets

Updated about 1 month ago


What’s Next
  • Lineage
  • Table of Contents
    • What is an Asset?