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Data Assets is the full inventory of everything Datawise tracks in your stack. It gives you a single place to browse tables, dbt models, and BI reports, see their schema change history, and understand how critical they are based on downstream exposure.

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What’s an Asset?

  • Warehouse tables and views — from Snowflake, BigQuery, or Postgres.
  • dbt models — synced from your dbt Cloud project.
  • Tableau workbooks — ingested from your connected Tableau site.
  • Power BI reports — ingested from your connected Power BI workspace.
Assets appear after the first successful ingestion run for each connector.

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Asset List View

ColumnDescription
Asset name and typeTable, view, model, workbook, or report.
SourceWhich connector it came from.
Schema change historyHow many schema changes have been detected.
Downstream countNumber of downstream assets that depend on this one.
Last detected changeWhen the most recent schema change was recorded.

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Asset Detail View

Click any asset to open the detail view:
  • Schema — current columns, data types, and nullability.
  • Change History — chronological log of all detected schema changes.
  • Downstream Assets — all assets that depend on this one, resolved through lineage.
  • Upstream Assets — all assets this one depends on.

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Criticality

Datawise uses downstream count as a proxy for criticality. An asset with 20 downstream dependencies is more critical than one with 2. Use it to prioritize which assets deserve the most attention when a schema change is detected.