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Finance asks if this table's numbers can be trusted, and you realize nobody ever wrote that down.
What you'll have at the end
A one-page SLA stating a table's freshness and completeness target, agreed with the team that uses it
You need
A specific table someone has questioned, plus read access to its load history: job logs or a query showing when each day's data landed and how many rows it carried.
Not covered
Deciding whether an open source or paid platform runs the check behind this promise.
Draft a data contract that survives a schema change
extends this into schema guarantees, for when a promise also needs to survive a column rename or type change.
How many of your tables need paid observability coverage?
helps decide which other tables in the warehouse are worth this same treatment once one table's SLA is working.
Checked 26 Aug 2026
Part of the Data Observability cookbook