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freshness check

/ˈfrɛʃ.nəs tʃɛk/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A test that confirms the data is old, then emails someone who has muted the channel.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. An automated test that flags a table as stale when its most recent record is older than a defined threshold.

Filed

See also

alert fatigueA channel so loud it has achieved the silence it was built to prevent.
data freshness slaA promise about how recent the data is, signed by no one and measured by whoever is annoyed first.
late-arriving dataData that shows up after the meeting that needed it, with a perfectly good explanation no one waited to hear.
pipeline monitoringA wall of green panels confirming the job ran, and silent on whether it was right.