Impact & Root Cause Analysis

Know what breaks before you ship the change

Parser-based lineage computes every upstream and downstream system of a column from the code itself, so impact analysis runs at design time. When something breaks, the same engine traces the number back to the transformation that produced it.

End-to-end, column-level lineage graph spanning databases, pipelines, and BI tools in a single view.

Key capabilities

Column-level lineage, cross-system, computed from source code

Covers systems whose jobs haven't run recently

400+ connectors across legacy, cloud, and hybrid sources

Root cause traced to the specific transformation

The Problem

Schema changes ship on guesswork

A column gets renamed, a table gets restructured, and the downstream damage surfaces in production when a dashboard breaks or a report goes out wrong.

After the incident, root cause means tracing by hand through disconnected systems: job logs, tribal knowledge, whoever happens to be on call that week.

The analysis that should have run before the change ends up running after something already broke.

The Approach

Compute the blast radius from the code, before the change deploys

MetaKarta parses the actual code: SQL, ETL logic, stored procedures, BI definitions. The dependency graph reflects what was designed. Log inference reports what happened to execute inside an observation window.

That makes impact analysis complete by construction. Every downstream consumer of a column appears, including the ones sitting in systems whose jobs haven't run in months.

When something breaks anyway, the same engine runs in reverse: from the wrong number on the report back to the transformation that produced it.

Lineage by design, not by observation.

What Changes

Impact analysis before the ticket

Know the blast radius before the first ticket lands.

Root cause in minutes

The trace from a broken number to its transformation is a query against the repository.

Trust that survives questioning

A definition you can't trace is a definition you can't trust.