Data Observability for Data Engineering: Proactive Strategies for Ensuring Data Accuracy and Addressing Broken Data Pipelines

Michele Pinto & Sammy el Khammal

Language: English

Published: Dec 29, 2023

Description:

Discover actionable steps to maintain healthy data pipelines to promote data observability within your teams with this essential guide to elevating data engineering practicesKey FeaturesLearn how to monitor your data pipelines in a scalable wayApply real-life use cases and projects to gain hands-on experience in implementing data observabilityInstil trust in your pipelines among data producers and consumers alikePurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionIn the age of information, strategic management of data is critical to organizational success. The constant challenge lies in maintaining data accuracy and preventing data pipelines from breaking. Data Observability for Data Engineering is your definitive guide to implementing data observability successfully in your organization.

This book unveils the power of data observability, a fusion of techniques and methods that allow you to monitor and validate the health of your data. You'll see how it builds on data quality monitoring and understand its significance from the data engineering perspective. Once you're familiar with the techniques and elements of data observability, you'll get hands-on with a practical Python project to reinforce what you've learned. Toward the end of the book, you'll apply your expertise to explore diverse use cases and experiment with projects to seamlessly implement data observability in your organization.

Equipped with the mastery of data observability intricacies, you'll be able to make your organization future-ready and resilient and never worry about the quality of your data pipelines again.

What you will learnImplement a data observability approach to enhance the quality of data pipelinesCollect and analyze key metrics through coding examplesApply monkey patching in a Python moduleManage the costs and risks associated with your data pipelineUnderstand the main techniques for collecting observability metricsImplement monitoring techniques for analytics pipelines in productionBuild and maintain a statistics engine continuouslyWho this book is forThis book is for data engineers, data architects, data analysts, and data scientists who have encountered issues with broken data pipelines or dashboards. Organizations seeking to adopt data observability practices and managers responsible for data quality and processes will find this book especially useful to increase the confidence of data consumers and raise awareness among producers regarding their data pipelines.

Table of ContentsFundamentals of Data Quality MonitoringFundamentals of Data ObservabilityData Observability techniquesData Observability elementsDefining rules on indicatorsRoot cause analysisOptimizing data pipelinesIntroducing and changing culture in the team Data observability checklistUse Cases