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Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

#41
This is awesome! We did this in-house back in 2014, and it quickly became an unmaintainable mess.

With dbt and Snowflake poised to take over this space, I can see this fitting right in on top of these tools. One idea would be to build in dbt integration into metafold

I'm curious - how did you settle on the pricing? I can see it being a differentiator from Datafold, Supergrain depending on your feature set

Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

#42
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This is awesome! We did this in-house back in 2014, and it quickly became an unmaintainable mess. With dbt and Snowflake poised to take over this space, I can see this fitting right in on top of these tools. One idea would be to build in dbt integration into metafold I'm curious - how did you settle on the pricing? I can see it being a differentiator from Datafold, Supergrain depending on your feature set

Amazing how many companies use dbt + Snowflake right? Such a different world from 2014…

Good idea, we actually do have a dbt integration that pulls in lineage and job metadata from your dbt manifests: https://docs.metaplane.dev/docs/dbt. Eventually we want to let you configure Metaplane tests from your dbt YAML.

Pricing is still in flux to be honest. We wanted to start with a price that was approachable for small teams, comparable to other tools in your stack, and could be paid for without going through a whole procurement process. But we’re trying to stay as flexible on pricing as possible!

Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

#43

This sounds like a very cool product! Any plans on supporting integration with Microsoft SQL Server?

Integrating with Microsoft SQL Server is definitely on our roadmap in the coming months. If you're up to discuss your use case, please reach out to team@metaplane.dev because we’d love to explore building this integration for you!

Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

#45
For those of us in smaller businesses, any chance of supporting Google Analytics as an integration? The ability to detect statistical anomalies across random pages/events would be a godsend, especially for organizations that don't have a proper data warehouse and dedicated BI staff.

I guess that'd be kinda a crossover between data integrity and marketing... in this case, an anomaly IS the data, where an unexpected increase/decrease in pageviews somewhere is something we'd love an alert on, but only after some threshold. As you pointed out, doing that manually just results in a bunch of false positives for those of us who aren't professional BI or statisticians.

Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

#49

For those of us in smaller businesses, any chance of supporting Google Analytics as an integration? The ability to detect statistical anomalies across random pages/events would be a godsend, especially for organizations that don't have a proper data warehouse and dedicated BI staff. I guess that'd be kinda a crossover between data integrity and marketing... in this case, an anomaly IS the data, where an unexpected in…

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Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data

#50

Congrats on the launch! How does this differ from Bigeye or Anomalo?

Our customers think of BigEye, Anomalo, and Monte Carlo very similarly (needing to go through a sales process, spending quite a bit of money), so this answer to a previous question about Monte Carlo might be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29228070 (linking to avoid redundancy)
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