Glossary

Anomaly detection

Automatically spotting values that break from the expected pattern, instead of relying on fixed manual thresholds.

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What is anomaly detection?

Anomaly detection is the automatic identification of data points that don't fit the established pattern — a row count, null rate or metric value that lands outside what the history would predict. The alternative, hand-set thresholds, ages badly: a rule that made sense last year fires false alarms today.

Why it matters

Done well, it adapts to context — rhythm, seasonality, gradual growth — so it flags the genuine break and stays quiet on normal variation. The goal is high signal: alerts you actually trust, instead of a noisy channel everyone learns to ignore.

How Tabkeel helps

Tabkeel runs anomaly detection on each monitored table against its learned baseline, so you get told about the real problem and not the noise.

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