Data Observability for Data Engineering

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 way
Apply real-life use cases and projects to gain hands-on experience in implementing data observability
Instil trust in your pipelines among data producers and consumers alike
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Book Description
In 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 pipelines
Collect and analyze key metrics through coding examples
Apply monkey patching in a Python module
Manage the costs and risks associated with your data pipeline
Understand the main techniques for collecting observability metrics
Implement monitoring techniques for analytics pipelines in production
Build and maintain a statistics engine continuously
Who this book is for
This 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 Monitoring
Fundamentals of Data Observability
Data Observability techniques
Data Observability elements
Defining rules on indicators
Root cause analysis
Optimizing data pipelines
Introducing and changing culture in the team
Data observability checklist
Use Cases