Often, the best way to notify end-users of issues is directly in the tools they use on a daily basis. With BI status badges, you can display if there are any issues on or upstream of a chart directly in your BI tool.

Example—A badge in Looker displaying that there’s an ongoing incident on or upstream of a chart

Creating a BI badge

  • Navigate to Products
  • Select the data product that contains the assets that you want to display the status of in your BI tool and navigate to the settings tab
  • Depending on your BI tool, copy the relevant Markdown or SVG URL title
  • Navigate to your BI tool and insert a widget that points to the URL above. The level of support for this may vary depending on the BI tool you use
Looker example
If you use Looker, click Add > Markdown and paste the Markdown URL from SYNQ into the Body
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  • Your BI tool will show a tile with the status of the data product. Clicking on the tile brings you back to SYNQ with an overview of the issues to connect the dots. title