Data quality traffic lights

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Data quality traffic lights

Nordnet implemented real-time 'Data Quality Health Badges' in Looker to provide visual trust signals for data pipelines based on dbt test results.

What: The system monitors for freshness, volume anomalies, and dbt failures, using lineage metadata to display the 'blast radius' of broken data to end users.

Why it matters: Data teams are moving away from passive alerting toward surfacing quality metrics directly within the BI tools where stakeholders consume data.

Decoder

dbt (data build tool): A framework that enables data analysts to transform data inside their data warehouse using SQL and version control.

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Nordnet added a real-time Data Quality Health Badge in Looker, showing green, yellow, or red dashboard trust signals. It catches dbt failures, silent crashes, freshness issues, and volume anomalies, consolidates repeat alerts, and uses dbt plus Looker lineage to show blast radius.

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