You own your domain's data.
But do you know where it goes?
Data stewards are accountable for data quality and lineage in their domain — but the available tools are either too technical, too expensive, or not designed for this role at all. MetricSign fills that gap.
Try the demo — no registration →The tools that exist weren't built for you
Power BI Admin Portal, ADF Monitor, and Databricks UI were built for admins and engineers. Getting useful information from them requires rights and context that data stewards don't have.
Microsoft Purview, Collibra, and Alation are governance platforms built for org-wide policies. They're not designed to answer 'did my domain's data refresh correctly this morning?'
Excel sheets and shared documents can track what exists, but not whether it's working. Every refresh status check means asking IT or waiting for a user to report a problem.
Four things your role actually needs
MetricSign is an operational monitoring tool — not a governance platform. It answers the daily question: is my domain's data still correct and current?
The lineage view shows the full chain: source → pipeline → dataset → reports. You can see which reports in your domain depend on which sources, and where the chain runs through other teams' systems.
Refresh status for every dataset in your domain — when it last refreshed, whether it succeeded, and how long it took. When a refresh fails or runs late, you know before your users do.
Dataset metadata shows which tables and columns are loaded, what the source is, and when the model was last changed. Useful when a report consumer asks 'does this dataset include field X?'
Reliability history shows refresh success rates and incidents over time. When something goes wrong, you have the context to explain it — and the history to show whether it's a recurring pattern.
Test whether MetricSign solves your problem before involving IT
Data stewards typically don't have admin rights to install tools — and getting IT to trial something unproven can take months. MetricSign's demo environment works around that.
The demo gives you a read-only view of a sample Power BI environment with live incidents, lineage, and monitoring history — in two minutes, without any registration. If it solves what you need, you can go to IT with a concrete request: “I've tested this, it shows X, can we connect it to our workspace?”
Try the demo — no registration →Questions from data stewards
Can I try MetricSign without asking IT?
Yes. The demo environment requires no account creation, no Power BI connection, and no IT involvement. It runs on sample data and gives you a representative view of what the tool shows. You only need IT when you want to connect MetricSign to your own Power BI workspace.
Does MetricSign replace a data governance platform like Microsoft Purview?
No. Purview, Collibra, and similar tools manage data policies, compliance, catalogues, and access governance at an organisational level. MetricSign is an operational monitoring tool — it answers whether your data refreshed correctly and where it flows, not how it's catalogued or governed. The two complement rather than replace each other.
I don't have admin rights in Power BI. Can I still use MetricSign?
Connecting MetricSign to your Power BI tenant requires a one-time setup by IT using a service principal with the right permissions. Once connected, you can view everything as a read-only user — no admin rights needed day to day.
How do I know which datasets belong to my domain?
MetricSign organises datasets by Power BI workspace. If your organisation's workspaces are structured by domain, you can filter by workspace to see only what's relevant to you. If workspaces aren't domain-aligned, you can search and filter by dataset name.
What does MetricSign show that the Power BI service doesn't?
The Power BI service shows whether a refresh succeeded — nothing more. MetricSign adds the upstream pipeline view (why did it fail?), the lineage from source to report (where does this data come from?), reliability history over time, and cross-system incident correlation.
Ready to see your domain's data in one view?
No signup required. The demo runs in two minutes on sample data.