ArqEye — AI-native data observability and pipeline intelligence
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ArqEye

AI agents that watch your data estate continuously, so teams act on insight, not incident recovery.

Overview

What is ArqEye?

ArqEye is an AI-native data observability platform that monitors the health, freshness, quality, and lineage of data assets continuously across pipelines, warehouses, and data products. It moves data incident management from reactive discovery to proactive prevention — detecting anomalies at ingestion and transformation, tracing failures to their origin, enforcing SLAs per data product, and routing incidents with full context assembled rather than requiring manual investigation from scratch.

Built for: Data engineering, analytics engineering, BI teams, CDOs, and data-intensive SaaS

Typically owned by: Head of Data Engineering and VP of Data Platform; Chief Data Officer and VP of Analytics; Head of Analytics Engineering and Director of Data Infrastructure; Platform Engineering leads at data-intensive SaaS companies.

Design targets
80%Reduction in time to detect data quality incidents
60%Drop in mean time to resolution via root cause analysis
90%Fewer downstream errors reaching BI layers and ML models

Targets we engineer each deployment toward, measured against your baseline during rollout.

The challenge

Where teams get stuck.

Data teams discover quality issues when a dashboard breaks, an ML model produces unexpected outputs, or a stakeholder notices something wrong. By then the failure has propagated downstream, the root cause is buried in hours of pipeline logs, and the impact scope is unknown until manually traced. Data SLAs exist on paper with no automated mechanism to monitor or enforce them.

The shift

What changes with ArqEye.

ArqEye converts data incident management from reactive recovery into proactive monitoring. Issues are detected at the point of entry, not after reaching consumers. Root cause is surfaced by an agent rather than reconstructed manually from pipeline logs. Impact scope is known immediately through lineage mapping. SLAs are enforced continuously rather than reported on retroactively.

Built for production

ArqEye detects issues at the point of entry, surfaces root cause automatically, knows the blast radius instantly, and enforces data SLAs continuously.

Capabilities

What ArqEye does.

A reusable workflow spine, tuned to your data, systems, and controls — not a generic model wrapper.

Anomaly detection agent

Monitors volume, freshness, schema drift, null rates, and statistical distribution across tables and pipeline stages continuously — flagging deviations before they propagate to downstream consumers, dashboards, or ML pipelines.

Data lineage intelligence

Automatically maps and maintains the dependency graph of upstream sources and downstream consumers for every data asset. When a failure is detected, the full blast radius is known immediately.

Incident root cause analysis

An LLM agent traces a data quality failure back to its origin — source schema change, upstream load failure, transformation drift, or infrastructure event — and surfaces the root cause with evidence and remediation options.

Data SLA enforcement

Defines and continuously monitors freshness, completeness, and quality SLAs at the data product level — triggering alerts and automated fallback logic the moment a breach threshold is approached, not after it's missed.

Schema drift detection

Tracks schema changes across source systems and pipeline stages in real time. Unplanned changes fire an immediate alert with the change description and affected downstream assets, preventing silent data corruption.

Data asset health scoring

A continuously updated health score per data asset across completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and validity — with trends visible before degradation causes incidents.

Agent architecture

How the agents work together.

Every agent action carries the trigger, the reasoning, the inputs, and the outcome in an encrypted, persistent audit trail. No black boxes.

01

A collection agent layer connects to data warehouses, lakes, and streaming systems to capture metadata, statistics, and schema snapshots continuously. A detection agent runs anomaly models and threshold checks per asset and per pipeline stage.

02

A lineage agent maintains the dependency graph and evaluates blast radius on each detected anomaly. An RCA agent chains against the lineage and change history to trace root cause. All findings route to a monitoring dashboard and alert channels with full context, evidence, and suggested remediation attached.

How it rolls out

From fit check to first operating queue.

Accelerators move fastest when the first release is narrow, measurable, and connected to the people who own the work.

01

Connect the data warehouse, primary pipelines, and orchestration tool; baseline volume, freshness, and schema patterns across priority assets.

02

Deploy anomaly detection and schema drift detection on production data flows; set SLA thresholds for priority data products; validate against recent incident history.

03

Enable lineage intelligence and root cause analysis; wire alerts to existing incident channels; begin SLA enforcement automation.

04

Expand coverage to the full data estate; activate health scoring dashboards; calibrate thresholds from observed true/false positive rates.

Use cases

Where it earns its place.

Pipeline health monitoring

Continuous volume, freshness, and distribution monitoring across warehouses, lakes, and streaming systems.

ML and BI reliability

Stop bad data from silently corrupting ML features and BI dashboards, with blast radius known in seconds.

Data product SLAs

Turn documented data SLAs into continuously enforced commitments with automated alerting and fallback logic.

Integrations

Wired into the stack you already run.

ArqEye connects to your existing data infrastructure — warehouses, orchestration, streaming, catalogs, and alerting — without replacing it, adding a continuous monitoring and intelligence layer across any platform or cloud environment.

Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, DatabricksApache Airflow, dbt, Prefect, DagsterApache Kafka, Confluent, AWS KinesisAlation, Collibra, DataHub, Apache AtlasPagerDuty, OpsGenie, Slack, Microsoft TeamsTableau, Power BI, Looker, Metabase
ArqEye in context
Fit signals

When ArqEye is worth a closer look.

How engagements start

Data Observability Maturity Assessment

A two-week analysis of recent data incidents, detection lag times, root cause investigation hours, and current SLA compliance across priority data products. Delivers a maturity score, a gap analysis against observability best practice, and a prioritized ArqEye deployment roadmap.

Book it
  • Data quality issues are discovered by downstream consumers, BI users, or ML engineers rather than the data team
  • Root cause investigation requires manual log analysis that takes hours and blocks the engineering team
  • Schema changes from source systems cause silent downstream failures detected only when a report or model breaks
  • Data SLAs exist as documented commitments with no automated mechanism to monitor or enforce them
  • The data team spends significant time on reactive incident response and wants to shift to proactive quality management
FAQ

Common questions about ArqEye.

What is ArqEye?

ArqEye is an AI-native data observability accelerator. Agents continuously monitor the health, freshness, quality, and lineage of data assets across pipelines and warehouses — detecting anomalies at ingestion, tracing root causes automatically, and enforcing SLAs per data product.

How is ArqEye different from ArqDataQ?

ArqEye is the observability platform: estate-wide health, freshness, lineage, schema drift, and SLA enforcement. ArqDataQ is the quality remediation system: detecting and autonomously fixing data quality issues in pipelines. They share the governed agent spine and are often deployed together.

How does ArqEye find the root cause of a data incident?

An LLM agent chains against the lineage graph and change history to trace a failure back to its origin — a source schema change, upstream load failure, transformation drift, or infrastructure event — and surfaces it with evidence and remediation options in seconds instead of hours of manual log analysis.

What infrastructure does ArqEye support?

Warehouses including Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and Databricks; orchestration via Airflow, dbt, Prefect, and Dagster; streaming via Kafka, Confluent, and Kinesis; catalogs like Alation, Collibra, and DataHub; and alerting through PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Slack, and Teams.

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