6 - Tabular Data Health

Data analysts often need to ensure not only the freshness of data, but that the data is accurate and complete. Foundry's Data Health service monitors and alerts on common issues across datasets with user-defined logic.

Data Engineers responsible for pipeline development, maintenance, and monitoring typically (but not necessarily) configure Health Checks in the Foundry platform.

📚 Recommended Reading (~5 min read)

Take a moment to review this overview of Foundry's Data Health service. If there are datasets you rely on in your analysis workflows, consider “watching" any checks so that you're notified if key measures fail. For more information on data health checks, consider the following resources:

• Available health checks
• Code-based data health checks
• Recommended checks