Flagship briefing
Pipeline health review
Three weeks watching one pipeline family, then a dated visual briefing of lag, retries, and leaking handoffs, walked with the crew who run the night load.
- Format
- Observation and briefing
- Span
- About three weeks
- Where
- Logs read remotely; walkthrough on Melikishvili Street or by video
- Charge
- Quoted from the number of feeds and source systems; see Rates
The pipeline health review is for operations leads who own a night load, a warehouse refresh, or a cluster of extracts that must clear before the next shift opens the tables. It is not a survey of every system in the firm. It is a close reading of one pipeline family.
What you hold at the end
You receive a dated folio: lag strips against each cutover hour, a stain map of retry clusters, and a short verdict on every handoff that joins two systems. The folio is printed for the briefing room and issued as a file the night operator can pin up. The real result is that a missed window can be shown, not merely described.
Scope
In: run times, freshness against the promised hour, retry counts, dead-letter piles, and schema surprises that appeared during the observation window. Out: rewriting jobs, hiring operators, buying licences, or sitting the night desk ourselves.
Who draws it
Briefing analysts at Data Streambase Analytics, working from Level 7, 29 Melikishvili Street, Tbilisi 0179. The same people who mark the atlas walk the folio with you. We do not hand the walkthrough to a separate presenter.
How the three weeks run
- Intake (days 1–2). You name the family, the last missed window, and who can share run logs without stripping the production machines. We write back with what we can cover and what we will refuse.
- Observation (about ten days). Feeds keep running as they always do. We read what they leave behind: duration, lag, retries, piles of rejected records.
- Drafting (several days). Marks from the atlas go onto paper. If a hatch would mislead a director standing in the doorway, we redraw it.
- Walkthrough (ninety minutes). In the Melikishvili briefing room, or at a video table if the crew sits outside Tbilisi. Operators correct what the sheet still gets wrong. We issue the filed folio after that hour, not before.
Preparation
Send the pipeline name, a recent incident date, the promised cutover hours, and a contact who may share logs. Do not send passwords to production. If logs cannot leave the building, we will sit with them on your floor by arrangement; that changes the quote.
Constraints
One family per review. A “family” is the set of feeds that must succeed together for a single business window — for example the billing extracts plus the warehouse load they fill. Mixing unrelated routes into one folio makes the hatches unreadable; we will split the work instead.
We need at least ten calendar days of runs. A brand-new feed with three nights of history is too thin; wait, or commission an incident recap for a single night.
Charge
The figure depends on how many feeds sit in the family and how many source systems write into them. Starting points live on Rates. Travel inside Tbilisi is not added. A visit to another city is quoted separately.
What this review will not do
It will not keep watching after the folio is filed. For a repeating picture, ask about a standing health watch. It will not decorate a wall without the observation; that is a different commission.
Next step
Write to the desk with the feed name and the night it last stalled. We answer within two working days with a proposed observation window.