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Last updated: Oct 28, 2026 06:48 UTC

Discover Assets

The Discover Assets page lists the data assets from all your connected data sources, such as Snowflake, Oracle, BigQuery, and Amazon S3, in one place. For each asset, ADOC shows:

  • What the asset is (its source, name, and type).
  • Its current health (reliability score, open alerts, and applied policies).
  • Recent activity (row count, profiling status, and schema updates and profile anomalies in the last 30 days).

Example: Before your sales team analyzes quarterly revenue, you search for Sales_Transactions on the Discover Assets page. The asset is stored in Snowflake, has a reliability score of 62%, and has two open alerts. You review the alerts before the team uses the data.

To open the page, in the left navigation, select Data Observability Cloud > Discover > Assets.

Access Control

What you see in Discover Assets depends on your domain-based access.

  • Access is managed through Authorization in ADOC.
  • Roles (such as Viewer, Editor, Manager) and assigned domains decide which assets you can view or manage.

Note

If you can’t find an asset, you might not have access to its domain. Contact your ADOC administrator.

Page Layout

The Discover Assets page has the following areas:

  • Left panel
    • Navigator: Browse a tree of your connected data sources. Expand a data source to find its assets.
    • Groups: Filter the asset list by Source Type, Policy Type, Alerts (severity), Asset Type, and Data Source. Each option shows the number of matching assets.
  • Filter bar
    • Search by asset name.
    • Filter the list by:
      • Tag: assets with a specific tag.
      • Watched Assets: assets you marked for closer tracking.
      • Profiled: assets that have been profiled.
      • Policy Configured: assets with active monitoring policies.
      • Example: To list only the profiled assets in a Snowflake data source, select the data source in Navigator, and then use the Profiled filter.

Note

Your search and filters stay applied when you open an asset and then return to the list.

  • Asset table
    • Lists the assets that match your search and filters.
    • The table has the following columns:
      • Name: the asset name and data source icon. Click the name to open the Asset Details page.
      • Reliability Score: the overall health score of the asset, based on the most recent results of its rules or policies.
      • Open Alerts: the number of unresolved alerts for the asset.
      • Tags: the tags applied to the asset.
      • Profiled: whether the asset has been profiled.
      • Data Quality, Reconciliation, Freshness, Anomaly: the policies of each type that are applied to the asset.
      • Total Rows: the approximate number of rows in the asset.
      • 30-Day Update Count: the number of schema updates to the asset in the last 30 days.
      • 30-Day Profile Anomalies: the number of anomalies detected across profiling runs for the asset in the last 30 days.

Note

For new assets, some columns show a dash (-) until monitoring starts.

To see what a column measures, hover over the info icon next to the column name. To show, hide, or reorder columns, click Columns, make your changes, and then click Apply.

  • Actions menu: Click the ⌘ icon (Actions in list view) to create virtual assets or add query lineage:
    • Add SQL View: create a virtual asset defined by a SQL query.
    • Add Visual View: create a virtual asset by joining and transforming assets on a visual canvas.
    • Query Lineage: upload a file of SQL queries to add lineage for the referenced assets.

Note

You can profile virtual assets and apply policies to them in the same way as physical assets. For more information, see Enrich Assets.

  • View switcher
  • Table view: the Discover Assets layout, with the left panel and the asset table.
  • List view: the Data Catalog layout, which shows each asset as a card with its policies, profiling status, active alerts, anomaly status, and tags. Use the All, Profiled, Unprofiled, Quality Error, and Watched Asset tabs to narrow the list.

How to Find Assets

You can find assets in the following ways:

  • Browse by source: In Navigator, expand a data source and select the asset.
    • Best when you know the source but not the exact name.
  • Filter by details: Use the filter bar or the Groups tab, for example, to list profiled assets or assets with critical alerts.
    • Best when you don’t know the name but know some characteristics.
  • Search by name: Enter all or part of the asset name in the search box.
    • Best when you know the asset name.

Common Actions on Assets

After you find an asset, you can:

  • Profile the asset: Generate column statistics, such as row counts, distinct values, and anomalies. Profile an asset before you apply policies. To profile an asset, open it and click Actions > Profile.
  • Start monitoring: Apply Data Quality, Reconciliation, Data Freshness, Data Anomaly, Data Drift, or Schema Drift policies. To apply a policy, open the asset, click Actions, and then select a policy type under Add/Edit Policy.
  • Investigate issues: Click the asset name to open the Asset Details page and review its policies and alerts.
  • Enrich the asset: Create SQL views or visual views, or add query lineage.

What’s Next

  • For new assets: Run profiling first. Profiling creates the baseline statistics that ADOC uses for quality checks and monitoring.
  • For monitored assets: Open the Asset Details page to review scores, alerts, and trends. For more information, see Asset Details.
  • To create virtual assets or add query lineage: See Enrich Assets.