A healthy analytics environment requires attention across five essential pillars: Security, Cost Management, Governance, Quality Standards, and Performance. Every monitor and alert in Datalogz Control Tower is tagged with one or more of these pillars, so you always know why an issue matters and who should care about it.
Security is continuous oversight of who can access your BI environment and how it is being used. Control Tower flags risks such as unusual access activity, suspicious export behavior, and permission changes on sensitive assets.
What you do: review security alerts as they appear and route them to the right owner. High-visibility assets get extra protection automatically.
Cost Management is about getting full value from your BI investment without waste. Control Tower identifies unused licenses, idle reports and dashboards, redundant refreshes, and other avoidable spend across your BI tools.
What you do: review surfaced savings opportunities, confirm with asset owners, and clean up. Most customers surface measurable savings within the first weeks.
Governance keeps your analytics estate structured, owned, and compliant. Control Tower detects orphaned and unowned assets, uncertified content, stale reports, and policy breaches such as users outside your SSO standard. Control Tower finds duplicate measures, reports built without a proper data model, and conflicting or redundant content that leads to inconsistent answers across teams.
What you do: assign owners to unowned assets, certify the content your organization should trust, and retire what is stale. Consolidate duplicates and standardize on certified definitions so every team reports from the same source of truth.
Performance ensures reporting stays fast and reliable. Control Tower tracks failed and long-running refreshes, capacity pressure, and configuration issues before they slow your users down.
What you do: act on refresh and capacity alerts to keep dashboards loading and data fresh.
Control Tower ships with a catalog of curated default monitors for each connected BI platform (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik Sense, Sigma, and Databricks). Each monitor continuously checks your environment against a specific rule and is tagged with the pillar it protects. When an asset breaches a rule, an alert is created with the affected asset, the reason, and a recommended fix.
You can also create custom monitors to track rules specific to your organization, such as internal naming standards or department-specific thresholds.
Actions to take:
Open the Monitor Catalog and enable the monitors relevant to your environment. Default monitors work out of the box.
Subscribe the right people to monitor notifications so alerts reach owners immediately.
Triage alerts from the Alerts page: assign, prioritize, and resolve. Every change is tracked in an audit trail.
If a check you need is missing, create a custom monitor or request one from the catalog.
Every enterprise has data infrastructure. Almost none has decision infrastructure.
Decision infrastructure is the layer that makes sure every decision taken inside the company, whether it comes from a dashboard, a deck, a person, or an AI agent, is traceable, reliable, accurate, consistent, and reached by the cheapest path available. Your data catalog knows your tables. Your quality tool watches your pipelines. Neither one watches the consumption layer, where people and agents actually decide things.
Datalogz Control Tower is that layer. It reads and continuously monitors your entire analytics estate across every connected platform, and turns what it finds into work that has an owner and an end state.
These docs cover setting Control Tower up, using it day to day, and the reference material behind it.
Connected platforms: Power BI, Tableau, Qlik Sense, Sigma, Spotfire, SharePoint, Databricks (preview), and Entra ID for identity.
Setting Control Tower up for the first time
Getting Started: who in your organization needs to be involved, and what each person does
: connect your first BI platform
: add members, set up teams, assign roles
and
Your platforms are connected and you are looking at your estate
: what has surfaced, and what to do with it
: what Control Tower checks, and how to change it
: every asset across every tool, with Lineage for what depends on what
: the duplicate and conflicting reports your teams built separately and never reconciled
Two ideas hold the rest together.
Monitoring is continuous. Monitors check your connected platforms around the clock. When something needs attention, an alert is created, routed to an owner, and tracked until it is resolved. There is nothing to configure to begin: once a platform is connected, a curated set of core monitors starts running against it. Your team reviews what surfaces, assigns owners, and acts. Scanning, detection, routing, and tracking happen without you.
Every finding sits under one of four pillars. Security, Cost Management, Governance (which covers quality, ownership, and compliance), and Performance. The pillar tells you why a finding matters and helps you decide what to deal with first.
You don't need to configure anything to get started. Once your BI platforms are connected, Control Tower begins monitoring with a curated set of default checks. Your team's job is to review the alerts that surface, assign owners, and act on them. Everything else, including scanning, detection, and tracking, happens automatically.
To learn more about the operational discipline behind the framework, we recommend reading our.
The core building blocks you will see everywhere in Datalogz Control Tower.
An asset is any resource in your BI environment: reports, dashboards, datasets and semantic models, dataflows, workbooks, apps, and more. Control Tower keeps a unified inventory of every asset across all your connected BI platforms, enriched with ownership, usage, lineage, and health information.
What you do: browse the inventory to see what exists, who owns it, and how it is used. Star the assets you care about, save filtered views for your team, and export lists when you need them.
Every BI tool organizes content differently: Power BI uses workspaces, Tableau uses projects, Qlik Sense uses streams. Platform Context is the single term Control Tower uses for all of these, so you can work consistently across tools without translating each platform's vocabulary.
A connector links Control Tower to one of your BI platforms, such as Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik Sense. Using credentials you provide, it reads metadata from that platform on a schedule, so your inventory, monitors, and alerts stay current.
What you do: an admin sets up each connector once and keeps credentials current. Syncing happens automatically from there. Read more in .
A monitor is a continuous check on your BI environment. Each monitor watches for a specific condition, such as a stale dataset, an unused report, or an unusual access pattern, and is tagged with the pillar it protects and a recommended fix.
Semantic Intelligence (preview): the business concepts your organization runs on, mapped across the estate, with drift caught as definitions start to split
: the executive picture of health, cost, and coverage across the whole estate
: turn a finding into a routed, tracked action
What you do: enable the monitors you need from the Monitor Catalog, set who gets notified, and adjust schedules if needed.
An alert is created when an asset breaches a monitor's rule. Each alert tells you the affected asset, what went wrong, who owns it, and what to do about it. Alerts have a status (to do, in progress, resolved) and a priority, and every change is recorded in an audit trail.
What you do: triage alerts from the Alerts page: assign them to team members, set priority, comment, and resolve. Bulk actions let you handle many alerts at once, and alerts close automatically when the underlying issue no longer exists.
A team groups people who work with the same BI content, typically by department or function. Teams scope which connectors, views, and alerts members see, so everyone works on the content they are responsible for.
What you do: organize users into teams so access stays clean and alerts route to the people who own the affected content.
The Home dashboard is your team's daily starting point. It summarizes alerts by pillar, priority, and status, with a view of everything or just the items assigned to you.
What you do: check Home to see what needs attention today and jump straight into triage.
BI360 is the executive view of your entire analytics estate: inventory growth, adoption and engagement, license utilization, department health, and trends over time, across all connected BI tools.
What you do: use BI360 to track the health of your analytics estate over time and report progress to leadership.