Tag: Anomaly

Warden: Real Time Anomaly Detection at Pinterest

Detecting anomalous events has been becoming increasingly important in recent years at Pinterest. Anomalous events, broadly defined, are rare occurrences that deviate from normal or expected behavior. Because these types of events can be found almost anywhere, opportunities and applications for anom...

Anomaly monitors and dbt tests to ensure the quality of business-critical pipelines

Not all data issues are created equal. While some issues may be merely annoying other issues spark hire-on-fire-moments causing your company to bleed $100,000 each day. At Synq, we work with dozens of companies that are seeing an explosion in business-critical data use cases. A few years ago data...

Anomaly Root Cause Analysis 101

We use metrics and KPIs to monitor the health of our products: to ensure that everything is stable or the product is growing as expected. But sometimes, metrics change suddenly. Conversions may rise by 10% on one day, or revenue may drop slightly for a few quarters. In such situations, it’s cr...