DATA OPS

Late Table Load Watchdog Correlated to Pipeline Logs in Axiom

When a Snowflake table misses its expected landing time, pulls the matching ingest job logs from Axiom to surface the error or stall reason.

CategoryData Ops
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerScheduled freshness sweep
  • ActionRead latest load times from SnowflakeSnowflakeSnowflake
  • LogicFlag tables past SLA
  • ActionQuery Axiom for the job's logsAxiom
  • OutputPost enriched alert to Slack on-callSlack

What it does

Instead of just announcing that a table is stale, this workflow joins the freshness miss to the actual pipeline execution logs. It detects a late Snowflake load, queries Axiom for the corresponding ingest job's log lines around the expected run time, and delivers a Slack alert that already contains the likely root cause (timeout, source API 500s, retries exhausted, etc.).

When to use it

Use it when your ingestion runs are observable in Axiom and you want the on-call engineer to open Slack and immediately see *why* the load is late, not just *that* it is late.

How it works

  1. 1A schedule triggers the freshness sweep.
  2. 2It reads the latest load timestamp per monitored table from Snowflake.
  3. 3A logic step flags any table whose load is later than its SLA.
  4. 4For each late table, it runs an Axiom query scoped to that job's dataset and time window to extract error and warning lines.
  5. 5It posts a Slack message to the data on-call channel with the table name, minutes late, and the relevant log excerpt.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect SnowflakeWarehouses, queries, shares.
  2. 2
    Connect AxiomLog streams, queries, dashboards.
  3. 3
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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