In the last 30 days, how often did you use lineage or impact analysis tools?
Which systems did you use for lineage or impact analysis in the last 30 days? Select all that apply.
- Data catalog (e.g., DataHub, Collibra, Alation)
- dbt docs
- OpenLineage-based tooling
- In-house lineage service
- BI lineage (e.g., Looker/Power BI/Tableau)
- Graph database/store
- Custom SQL or notebooks
Overall, how much do you trust the accuracy of lineage for your work in the last 30 days?
Rate your confidence in the following lineage aspects over the last 30 days.
How many times did lineage inaccuracies or gaps cause rework in the last 30 days?
How would you rate the speed of your typical impact analysis over the last 30 days?
Which best describes your most recent impact analysis in the last 30 days?
- Upstream schema change
- Downstream dashboard/report change
- Production incident/root-cause analysis
- Cost or performance optimization
- Access/governance change
For your most recent impact analysis, how confident were you that you identified all affected assets?
On average over the last 30 days, how many minutes did you spend to complete an impact analysis?
What are the biggest blockers to trustworthy lineage and efficient impact analysis for you? Select all that apply.
- Incomplete coverage
- Stale or delayed updates
- Unclear ownership/contacts
- Low metadata quality
- Tool usability/learnability
- Missing column-level lineage
- Access/permissions issues
- Query parsing limitations
- Competing priorities/time constraints
Which methods do you use to validate or cross-check lineage when making decisions? Select all that apply.
- Compare with query logs
- Manual SQL tracing
- Ask a subject matter expert
- Review dbt tests or data tests
- Graph traversal checks
- Cross-environment diffs
- I don't validate
What lineage update freshness do you typically need to trust changes for impact analysis?
Attention check: To help ensure data quality, please select "I am paying attention".
Rank the following outcomes by importance for your work (1 = most important).
If you could change one thing to improve trust or impact analysis, what would it be?
Max 100 chars
What is your primary role?
How many years have you worked with data professionally?
Approximately how large is your organization?
Which industry best describes your organization?
Which region do you primarily work in?
Welcome! This survey asks about your use of lineage and impact analysis over the last 30 days. Please answer based on your own experience.
Briefly describe a recent case (last 90 days) where lineage helped or misled your analysis. What happened, and how was it resolved?
Max 600 chars
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