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  • Introduction
    • Overview
    • Why Alvin?
    • Connect your systems
      • Data Warehouse
        • BigQuery
          • Provision source system credentials
          • Provision with GCloud CLI
        • Snowflake
        • Databricks
      • Business Intelligence
        • Looker
      • Orchestration
        • dbt
      • SSO (Single Sign-On)
    • Security & compliance
    • Types of metadata
    • FAQ
  • Cost Monitoring
    • Introduction to Cost Monitoring
    • Compute
    • Storage
  • BI Query Optimizer
    • Introduction to Query Optimizer
    • How does it work?
    • Getting started
  • Workflow automation
    • Introduction to Workflow Automation
    • Events definitions
    • Configuring Workflows
  • Anomaly Detection
    • Anomaly Detection
  • Exploring Metadata
    • Lineage
      • Depth of lineage
    • Impact Analysis
    • Entities
    • Entity View
    • Metadata Warehouse
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  • 1. Click create new workflow
  • 2. Set Trigger
  • 3. Select actions
  1. Workflow automation

Configuring Workflows

Configure monitors to detect relevant insights into your data platform, and

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1. Click create new workflow

2. Set Trigger

3. Select actions

You can select a number of actions that will help you address the event, whether that is manually, semi-automatically or completely automated.

Manual

  • Create contextualized issue: create an issue with all of the context you need to take action, prioritize it, cancel it or assign an owner.

Semi-automated

  • Generate a PR in Github

  • Generate a PR to delete a dbt model in Github (dbt)

Automated

  • Switch data warehouse storage pricing model (BigQuery)

  • Send notification to Slack

  • Implement BI Query Optimizer

We will be adding more actions rapidly over the coming months, so stay tuned

Every Workflow has a single event type that acts as a trigger. Triggers are how you start automated workflows whenever an event is detected in your data environment. Cost anomalies, stale dbt models, inefficient pricing model, expensive full table refreshes are examples of events that can be used to trigger a workflow. Check out the full .

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