Data observability tools for SQL Server

Data observability tools help the company track and understand the state of its data at any given time and provide it with full insight into their data pipelines. They also allow them to identify, monitor and troubleshoot errors in order to minimize data issues and improve high data quality.

Dataedo

Dataedo is a data governance & data catalog software with data observability features such as data lineage, data profiling, and schema change tracking.

Data Lineage: Yes
Data Monitoring: No
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: HTML,MS Excel,PDF
Free edition: No
Machine Learning: No
Notifications: Yes
Schema Change Tracking: Yes
Dataedo Data Lineage
Dataedo Schema Changes
Dataedo Data Profiling

New Relic

New Relic is a simple, powerful platform for observability that collects and contextualizes all operational data from any source and simplifies instrumentation, data ingestion, exploration, correlation, and machine learning-powered analysis to support observability. Its full-stack observability lets you easily visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot your entire software stack in one connected experience.

Data Lineage: No
Data Monitoring: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Export: PDF
Free edition: Yes
Machine Learning: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Schema Change Tracking: Yes

Datadog

Datadog is a unified observability platform that provides full visibility into the health and performance of each layer of your environment. It is an easy-to-navigate observability platform to explore and analyze your data, create and customize dashboards and other visualizations for data from across your systems, and leverage observability platform features like actionable alerts, threat detection rules, and the Datadog API. Overall, it brings together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable.

Data Lineage: No
Data Monitoring: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV
Free edition: No
Machine Learning: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Schema Change Tracking: Yes

Splunk Observability

Splunk Observability is the only full-stack, analytics-powered, and OpenTelemetry-native observability solution. It provides end-to-end visibility across your entire hybrid technology landscape, from application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and real user monitoring, to synthetic monitoring, log observer, and IT service intelligence.

Data Lineage: No
Data Monitoring: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV,JSON,PDF,XML
Free edition: No
Machine Learning: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Schema Change Tracking: Yes

Elastic Observability

Elastic Observability transforms your data into actionable observability. It is built on the proven ELK Stack to converge metrics, logs, and traces, delivering unified visibility and actionable insights. With Elastic Observability, you can easily ingest metrics, logs, and traces quickly and easily from applications and infrastructure hosted in a data center or on cloud providers.

Data Lineage: No
Data Monitoring: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV,PDF
Free edition: No
Machine Learning: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Schema Change Tracking: No

Instana

Instana's Enterprise Observability Platform ingests all performance metrics, traces all requests, and profiles every process, along with the capabilities needed to make observability work for the enterprise. Its automatic discovery, monitoring, root cause analysis, and feedback reduce the amount of stress when deploying new code or making changes to the system with immediate feedback on the performance and quality of your applications at each step of the software delivery pipeline.

Data Lineage: No
Data Monitoring: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: -
Free edition: No
Machine Learning: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Schema Change Tracking: No

Anodot

Anodot provides granular observability into the health of your data and identifies data quality issues in real-time. Anodot’s AI analytics can analyze 100% of the data you collect, detect anomalies and business incidents in real time and identify their root cause, enabling you to remedy problems faster and capture opportunities sooner.

Data Lineage: No
Data Monitoring: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Export: -
Free edition: No
Machine Learning: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Schema Change Tracking: Yes

AppDynamics

AppDynamics is a business observability platform that helps you see, understand, and optimize your back-end operations to accelerate your organization’s evolution within today’s digital economy. With AppDynamics you can plan, execute, and quickly address any technical and performance issues with an end-to-end view of every application, hybrid cloud infrastructure element, or network function that your business depends on.

Data Lineage: No
Data Monitoring: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV,JSON,PDF
Free edition: No
Machine Learning: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Schema Change Tracking: No

StackState

StackState is a smart observability & AIOps, powered by topology that maps changes to problems in your stack at any point in time so you can become a zero downtime enterprise. StackState’s approach tracks every change in topology and correlates it with system-wide telemetry data in real-time and over time. Moreover, it is purpose-built to integrate quickly with other data sources. It combines siloed telemetry and enriches it with time-series topology data so you can see cause and effect everywhere across your stack.

Data Lineage: No
Data Monitoring: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Export: CSV,FDF,XML
Free edition: No
Machine Learning: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Schema Change Tracking: No

Data observability tools help the company track and understand the state of its data at any given time and provide it with full insight into their data pipelines. They also allow them to identify, monitor and troubleshoot errors in order to minimize data issues and improve high data quality.

By monitoring data across multi-layered IT architecture, data observability tools enable identifying bottlenecks and data issues no matter where they originate. Thanks to new insights into how the data is moving through your IT infrastructure, it's possible to improve identification and resolution of the errors and search for the issues that could potentially be missed.

To help you select the best solution for monitoring the data health in your company, we've prepared a list of data observability tools that will enable your team to understand your data systems to fix and prevent data problems.