Capability 03
Data Discovery and Lineage
Help teams discover trusted assets, review metadata, identify ownership, and trace data from its source to the final analytical output.
What it enables
More useful context for the decisions in front of your team.
Understand origin
Identify where data comes from and which process created the final output.
Assess change impact
See which downstream assets may be affected by a source, schema, or pipeline change.
Accelerate troubleshooting
Use lineage to investigate quality, transformation, or reporting issues more efficiently.
How it supports the workflow
Move from signal to business-ready context.
Data Discovery and Lineage is designed to support the wider analytical workflow without separating people from the information and definitions they need.
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Discover
Search tables, dashboards, pipelines, and datasets from one centralized catalog.
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Trace
Follow data from source systems through transformation to dashboards and reports.
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Investigate
Use the traced path to review ownership, definitions, and downstream dependencies.
Designed for
Decision environments where context matters.
Daviz can be shaped around the reporting, operational, and leadership conversations that are most important to your organization.
Faster discovery
Find the right data through structured metadata and shared business context.
Impact analysis
Understand which assets a source or schema change may affect before it happens.
Issue investigation
Trace lineage to resolve quality, transformation, or reporting issues efficiently.
Questions
Common questions about Data Discovery and Lineage.
Direct answers to the questions teams ask when evaluating this capability.
What is data lineage?+
Data lineage traces how information moves from source systems, through transformation processes, to the dashboards and reports where it is used — showing where data comes from and which process created each output.
What problems does data discovery solve?+
It reduces time spent searching for the right data by making tables, dashboards, pipelines, and datasets findable through one centralized catalog with structured metadata and ownership context.
How does lineage help when something changes?+
Lineage shows which downstream assets a source, schema, or pipeline change may affect, so teams can assess impact before the change and troubleshoot faster after it.