The Data Downtime Blog
7 Questions to Ask When Building Your Data Team
When it comes to ensuring your data team is happy and productive, answering these seven questions will make all the difference.
Announcing Monte Carlo’s End-to-End Field-Level Lineage to Help Teams Achieve Data Reliability
Monte Carlo’s field-level lineage functionality is now offered as part of our automated, end-to-end data observability platform.
How Vimeo Achieved End-to-End Visibility in Snowflake and Looker with Monte Carlo
Learn why the the data engineering team at Vimeo chose to partner with Monte Carlo for data observability.
7 Questions to Ask When Building Your Data Team
When it comes to ensuring your data team is happy and productive, answering these seven questions will make all the…
IMPACT: The Data Observability Summit Videos Are Now Available On Demand
Missed IMPACT? Have no fear! Full recordings of our keynotes, panels, and fireside chats with Bob Muglia, DJ Patil, Zhamak…
Announcing Monte Carlo’s End-to-End Field-Level Lineage to Help Teams Achieve Data Reliability
Monte Carlo’s field-level lineage functionality is now offered as part of our automated, end-to-end data observability platform. …
How The Farmer’s Dog Builds Data Reliability with Monte Carlo
How the data team at The Farmer's Dog, a fresh dog food company, achieves reliable data pipelines with automated, end-to-end…
Monte Carlo Launches Insights to Help Data Teams Understand What Data Matters Most to Your Business
Monte Carlo Insights is the first solution on the market to offer customers operational analytics about their data environment.
Unicorns, data mesh, category creation, and more reasons to attend IMPACT: The Data Observability Summit
Five reasons why you should attend IMPACT, the world's first Data Observability summit on Wednesday, November 3, 2021.
How to Choose the Right Structure for Your Data Team
Best practices for building a data team at a hypergrowth startup, from hiring your first data engineer to IPO.
Data Mesh – Fad or Fab?
Love it or hate it – it’s here. So, we turned to one of the experts to ask him some…
Data Observability 101: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
What is data observability and does it make sense for your stack? Here’s your go-to guide to starting on the…
The Future of the Data Engineer
Is the data engineer still the "worst seat at the table?" Maxime Beauchemin, creator of Apache Airflow and Apache Superset,…
Announcing O’Reilly’s Data Quality Fundamentals
Available today, Data Quality Fundamental's press release chapters dive into how some of the best teams are architecting for data…
4 Reasons Why I Joined Monte Carlo’s Data Science Team
Considering joining a data startup? Learn how and why Ryan Kearns turned his Monte Carlo internship into a job.
Monitors as Code: A New Way to Deploy Custom Data Quality Monitors From Your CI/CD Workflow
Monte Carlo releases Monitors as Code, allowing data engineers to easily configure new data quality monitors as part of their…
Data Observability: Five Quick Ways to Improve the Reliability of Your Data
Five common data observability use cases and how they can help your team improve data quality at scale and trust…
Bob Muglia, former Snowflake CEO, to Speak at IMPACT, the World’s First Data Observability Summit
Muglia will join the first Chief Data Scientist of the U.S., the founder of the data mesh, and the creator…
Data Mesh 101: How to Get Started
What is a data mesh? Do you even need one? Download this free guide to learn how some of the…
Anomaly Detection: Why Your Data Team Is Just Not That Into It
Delivering reliable data products doesn't have to be so painful. Introducing a more proactive approach to data quality: the Data…
Solving Data’s “Last Mile” Problem with Reverse ETL and Data Observability
How Reverse ETL and Data Observability can help teams go the extra mile when it comes to trusting your data…
Monte Carlo Recognized as a DataOps Leader by G2
Monte Carlo’s Data Observability Platform wins Best Support, Easiest To Do Business With, and High Performer for Summer and Fall…
What is a Data Incident Commander?
How data teams can build more resilient incident workflows with DevOps best practices.
How Vimeo Achieved End-to-End Visibility in Snowflake and Looker with Monte Carlo
Learn why the the data engineering team at Vimeo chose to partner with Monte Carlo for data observability.
The Ultimate Data Observability Checklist
Here are the 5 things every data observability strategy needs to help companies achieve end-to-end data trust.
Monte Carlo Raises Series C, Brings Funding to $101M to Help Companies Trust Their Data
Monte Carlo’s Series C highlights the rapid growth of the Data Observability category, our industry-defining customer adoption, and global expansion.
Celebrating the New Pioneers of Data Reliability
How today’s data leaders are prioritizing data trust and reliability at their companies.
The Weekly ETL: How Do You “Thin Slice” a Data Pipeline?
In Monte Carlo’s Weekly ETL (Explanations Through Lior) series, Lior Gavish, Monte Carlo’s co-founder, and CTO answers a trending question…
How Hotjar Reduced Data Infrastructure Costs by 3x with Monte Carlo
To supplement data testing, Hotjar’s data engineering team chose to implement Monte Carlo for end-to-end data observability, monitoring, and field-level…
How PagerDuty Applies DevOps Best Practices to Achieve More Reliable Data at Scale
Here’s how the company pioneering DevOps handles data incident response at scale through end-to-end data observability.
Getting Started: Automatic Detection and Alerting for Data Incidents with Monte Carlo
Here’s how data teams get up and running with Monte Carlo to automatically detect and alert on data incidents with…
How The Farmer’s Dog Achieved Rapid ML-Based Anomaly Detection with Monte Carlo
Learn how The Farmer's Dog achieved fully automated anomaly detection out-of-the-box with Monte Carlo.
Kolibri Games’ 5-Year Journey to Building a Data-Driven Company
One startup's lessons learned learned building a data mesh—and distributed data team—from scratch.
Monte Carlo is SOC 2 Type II Certified
Monte Carlo’s SOC 2 Type II certification ensures that our end-to-end data observability platform provides data security and privacy across…
What in the World is Going on with Data Catalogs?
Data catalogs are having an identity crisis. Here’s why.
The Weekly ETL: Will Data Engineering Ever Be Sexy like Data Science?
Data engineers are the backbone of the data team - so why can't they get the respect they deserve?…
4 Things You Need to Know When Solving for Data Quality
Investing in a data quality solution? Here's everything you need to know.
Monte Carlo Launches Incident IQ To Help Organizations Achieve End-to-End Data Trust
With Incident IQ, data teams using Monte Carlo’s Data Observability Platform can now easily and collaboratively identify, alert on, and…
Announcing Incident IQ, Monte Carlo’s Root Cause Analysis Workflow for Data Teams
How to get started with Incident IQ, Monte Carlo's all-in-one solution for troubleshooting and preventing broken data pipelines.
The Weekly ETL: How Do You Document Your Data Assets?
Lior Gavish, Monte Carlo's co-founder and CTO, answers a trending question on Reddit about some of the data industry's hottest…
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Building Your Data Platform
There are a lot of technologies you could use to build a data platform - but what do you really…
Monte Carlo announces integration with Snowflake’s Snowpark developer platform to deliver more secure data monitoring and observability
With Snowpark’s Java UDF support, Monte Carlo makes it faster and more secure for organizations to achieve end-to-end data trust…
A Tale of Baseball and Bad Data: Why I Joined Monte Carlo
I guess data runs in the family. Growing up as a kid in the ‘90s, I distinctly remember my father…
5 Non-Obvious Ways to Make Data Engineers Love Working For You
And how to become a better data leader in the process.
Monte Carlo Expands Leadership Team from Snowflake, Segment to Support Hypergrowth of Data Observability Category
Monte Carlo hires Snowflake, Segment go-to-market leaders to help companies accelerate the adoption of trustworthy and reliable data.
Scaling Data Trust: How Auto Trader Migrated to a Decentralized Data Platform with Monte Carlo
With Data Observability, Auto Trader scaled data trust and ownership across their self-service data platform.
Delivering More Reliable Data Pipelines with PagerDuty and Monte Carlo
As more companies rely on more data to drive their product development and strategic decision making, it’s never been more…
Monte Carlo and PagerDuty Integration Brings DevOps to Data Pipelines with End-to-End Data Observability
Monte Carlo's PagerDuty integration helps data engineering teams achieve greater visibility into the end-to-end health of their data pipelines.
How to Meet Your Data Reliability OKRs with Monte Carlo’s Service-Level Indicators (SLIs)
Set data quality OKRs and achieve greater data trust with Monte Carlo's new SLIs.
Monte Carlo Brings Data Observability to Data Lakes with New Databricks Integration
Monte Carlo's new Databricks integration allows data teams to achieve end-to-end observability and automated lineage across their data lake environments.
How Optoro Builds Data Trust – and Ownership – at Scale with Monte Carlo
Logistics leader Optoro saves 44 hours per week with end-to-end Data Observability.
Blinkist Chooses Monte Carlo to Deliver More Reliable Data Pipelines Through Data Observability
Blinkist saves 120 hours of engineering time per week with Monte Carlo.
Beyond Monitoring: The Rise of Observability
Modern data and machine learning systems need both monitoring and observability. Here’s why.
Case Study: How Mindbody Achieves End-to-End Data Trust with Monte Carlo
Here's how Mindbody leverages Monte Carlo to achieve end-to-end data trust and more reliable data pipelines.
How AutoTrader built a more reliable data platform with Monte Carlo
Here's how Ed Kent, Principal Developer at Auto Trader UK, is scaling his team's data platform with reliability and trust…
How to Extract Data Observability Metrics from Snowflake Using SQL
Monitor the health of your Snowflake data pipelines with these 7 queries.
Monte Carlo Named a Best Workplace for 2021 By Inc. Magazine
The Data Observability leader was also recognized as a winner in the On the Rise category of emerging companies…
How to Conduct Incident Management for Data Teams
4 steps to identify, root cause, and fix data quality issues at scale…
Delivering End-to-End Data Trust with Snowflake and Monte Carlo
With Monte Carlo and Snowflake’s strategic partnership, teams can finally trust their data through end-to-end Data Observability.
Monte Carlo and Snowflake partner to help organizations achieve more trustworthy data
Monte Carlo’s Data Observability platform gives Snowflake customers added confidence that their data is reliable and trustworthy.
The Right Way to Measure ROI on Data Quality
Introducing a better approach for measuring the cost of bad data to your business.
How Resident Reduced Data Issues by 90% with Monte Carlo
With Data Observability, the Data Engineering team at Resident reduced their data downtime by 90% percent.
The Data Engineer’s Guide to Root Cause Analysis
Introducing a five-step approach used by some of the best data engineering teams to root cause your data quality issues.
Building a Better Data Culture: An Interview with ThoughtSpot’s Cindi Howson
We sat down with Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot about common challenges organizations face on the road…
Data Discovery: The Future of Data Catalogs for Data Lakes
How data catalogs are failing us and why data discovery can help.
5 Things Every Data Engineer Needs to Know About Data Observability
With data observability, data engineers can think more strategically about tackling the "good pipelines, bad data" problem.
[VIDEO] How Resident Drives Data Observability with Monte Carlo
When it comes to trusting your data, having end-to-end Data Observability across your stack is critical. Daniel Rimon, Head of…
Data Software-as-a-Service: The Case for a Hybrid Deployment Architecture
With the combined benefits of on-prem security and SaaS convenience, data and ML vendors with a hybrid deployment architecture give…
You’re Not Realizing the Full Value of Your Company’s Data
How to overcome five non-obvious roadblocks on your journey to data analytics excellence.
Data Observability in Practice: Data Monitoring at Scale with SQL and Machine Learning
How to make your own data observability monitors from scratch and leverage basic principles of machine learning to apply them…
The Ultimate Data Observability Checklist
For most teams, data observability is more than just setting up a bunch of pipeline tests and hoping for the…
Monte Carlo Launches Chief Data Officer Advisory Board
Monte Carlo's CDO Advisory Board will help us better serve customers on their journeys to data trust and pioneer the…
Why Production Machine Learning Fails — And How To Fix It
Discussing applications of ML in theory is much different than actually applying ML models at scale in production. Here's the…
Monte Carlo is SOC 2 Certified
Monte Carlo’s SOC 2-certification takes our commitment to security and privacy one step further for customers.
The New Rules of Data Quality
Unit testing your data only gets you so far. Here’s a better way to manage data quality at scale.
Monte Carlo Recognized as a 2021 Enterprise Tech 30 Company
Monte Carlo was named a leader in data by the 2021 Enterprise Tech 30 list. Here's why.
Data Observability: How Blinkist Prevents Broken Data Pipelines at Scale with Monte Carlo
Here’s how the data engineering team at Blinkist, a book-summarizing subscription service, saves 120 hours per week and increases revenue…
Data Mesh 101: Everything You Need To Know to Get Started
Your company wants to build a data mesh. Great! Now what? Here’s a quick primer to get you started --…
Data Observability: How to Build Your Own Anomaly Detectors Using SQL
How to use metadata to understand the root cause of data anomalies and take your data quality testing to the…
Introducing the 2021 Pioneers of Data Reliability
The 2021 Data Reliability pioneers are charting a new course for what it means to be truly data driven in…
Monte Carlo Raises $25M Series B to Help Companies Achieve More Reliable Data
Monte Carlo announces $25M Series B funding round to help companies achieve more reliable data through data observability.
Why You Need to Set SLAs for Your Data Pipelines
How to set expectations around data quality and reliability for your company…
Must-have Priorities for Your Data Team in 2021
In 2021, it’s not just about having the “modern data stack.” It’s about having a modern approach to working with…
[VIDEO] How Yotpo Drives Data Observability with Monte Carlo
For Yotpo, a leading e-commerce marketing platform, data downtime led to sleepless nights, costly fire drills, and unreliable analytics dashboards.
[VIDEO] How Blinkist Increases Marketing ROI with Data Observability and Monte Carlo
For Blinkist, a global book insights subscription service, broken data pipelines led to unreliable marketing spend, costly data fire drills,…
How To Convert 100% of Your Proofs of Concept into Happy Customers
How Monte Carlo's approach to "treating prospects like your best customers" leads to successful PoCs and better happier users.
Data Observability in Practice Using SQL
A step-by-step tutorial for creating your own data quality monitors to catch freshness and distribution anomalies in your data pipelines.
How to Prevent Bad Data in Your Perfectly Good Pipelines
Your data broke. Now what? Here's how some of the best data teams prevent data downtime and, in the process,…
Data Observability: How Yotpo Fixes Data Quality at Scale with Monte Carlo
Here's how the Yotpo leverages Data Observability to prevent broken analytics dashboards and increase trust in their data.
Why Testing Your Data Is Insufficient
Data is a dynamic, ever-evolving entity. So why aren't we treating it like one? Here's why a hybrid approach to…
How to Improve Data Engineering Workflows with End-to-End Data Observability
With data observability, data teams can now identify and prevent inaccurate, missing, or erroneous data from breaking your analytics dashboards,…
Incident Prevention for Data Teams: Introducing the 5 Pillars of Data Observability
By applying principles of DevOps Observability (think: traces, logs, and metrics), data teams can achieve similar levels of visibility into…
Metadata is Useless — Unless You Have a Use Case
Here's why having metadata and lineage without a clear business application is worse than having no metadata at all.
The Data Downtime Before Christmas
What happens when a freshness anomaly threatens to ruin Christmas? Turns out, even Santa Claus and his elves aren’t…
Data Catalogs Are Dead; Long Live Data Discovery
Data catalogs aren't cutting it any more when it comes to metadata management and data governance. Here's how data discovery…
On Data Governance: Maria Villar, Head of Enterprise Data Strategy and Transformation
We sat down with Maria Villar, Head of Enterprise Data Strategy and Transformation at SAP, to learn how the best…
How Compass is Reinventing Real Estate with Data Reliability in the Cloud
Learn how Compass leverages data observability to increase cost savings, facilitate better collaboration, and achieve data reliability in the cloud…
How to Set Up Your Company’s Data Quality Strategy for Success
5 essentials steps for accelerating the adoption of data at your company…
Monte Carlo Releases Data Observability Platform to Unlock the Potential of the Modern Data Stack
The Monte Carlo Data Observability Platform is the first end-to-end solution to prevent broken data pipelines and dashboards.
Fighting Churn with Data: An Interview with Zuora Chief Data Scientist Carl Gold
And why data reliability is top of mind for the Subscription Economy…
Data Lake vs. Warehouse: How to Choose the Right Solution for Your Stack
Data warehouse? Data lake? Data lakehouse? All of the above? Here’s what you need to know to make the right…
How to achieve more reliable analytics with the Monte Carlo integration for Looker
Monte Carlo is excited to announce our partnership with Looker, a leading business intelligence software and big data analytics platform,…
A Summer at Monte Carlo: Improving Data Pipeline Observability at Scale
How I spent my summer internship on Monte Carlo’s software engineering team…
Bringing Reliable Data and AI to the Cloud: A Q&A with Databricks’ Matei Zaharia
An interview with Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia on all things AI, the cloud, and data reliability…
On the 2020 Elections, Texas Hold’em Poker, and Monte Carlo Simulations
What do Texas Hold 'Em poker, Monte Carlo simulations, and the 2020 U.S. elections have in common? It's more than…
Why Hiring a Data Analyst Won’t Solve Your Business Problems
Building a strong data culture is challenging for even the data teams. We partnered with Data Culture co-founders Gabi Steele…
Data Observability: How to Fix Your Broken Data Pipelines
In 2020, data is the new software. While software needs to be highly available, data needs to be highly reliable.
What Every Data Team Needs to Know Before You IPO
We share 5 essential ways data teams can prepare their companies for a successful IPO.
How to Solve the “You’re Using THAT Table?!” Problem
How to keep track of your data warehouse's most critical table and reports…
Monte Carlo Raises $16M to Build the World’s First Data Reliability Platform
With customers such as Compass, Eventbrite, and Mindbody, Monte Carlo is spearheading the Data Reliability category and delivering end-to-end Data…
Introducing the Pioneers of Data Reliability
A thank you to Monte Carlo’s customers, design partners, and data leaders spearheading the data reliability movement.
Data Observability: The Next Frontier of Data Engineering
To keep pace with data’s clock speed of innovation, data engineers need to invest in data observability, the next frontier…
Introducing the New ABCs of Data
To help you keep pace with the evolving world of data, we put together the new essential alphabet for data…
Which of the Six Major Data Personas Are You?
Who is responsible for data reliability in your data organization? The answer may surprise you.
What Does it Take to Succeed as a CDO in the Age of COVID-19?
We share three key takeaways from the event and propose next steps for CDOs to retain their competitive edge in…
[VIDEO] 3 Best Practices for Data Organizations: Structure, ROI, & Communications
Barr Moses, Monte Carlo co-founder and CEO, discusses best practices for how to get started building your data team with…
[VIDEO] Introducing Data Downtime: From Firefighting to Winning
During a 2019 Data Council meetup, Monte Carlo Co-founder & CEO Barr Moses discusses why data downtime matters to the…
4 Essential Tactics for Managing a Great Distributed Data Team
Everything data leaders need to know about managing distributed teams in our remote-first world.
How to Build Your Data Platform like a Product
We share advice for designing a data platform that will maximize the value and impact of data at your company.
Good Tales of Bad Data
When data breaks and no one hears it, does it make a sound? And other tales for data teams.
How to Calculate the Cost of Data Downtime
Introducing a better way to measure the financial impact of bad data on your company…
How to Scale Your Data Team with Confidence
Building a data-first culture in our remote-first world takes more than a few fancy algorithms.
What is a Data Mesh — and How Not to Mesh it Up
A beginner’s guide to implementing the latest industry trend: a data mesh.
4 Ways to Lead with Data During a Global Pandemic
Defining the role of data leaders during a pandemic.
How to Measure the ROI of Your Data Organization
A more pragmatic approach to measuring the value of your data team.
Every Company is a Data Company (But Not Every Company is Good at Data)
The inverse relationship between data appetite and data success.
3 Takeaways from the 2019 Chief Data Officer Symposium
What the world’s most innovative CDOs are up to.
