Feeds page
The Feeds page provides detailed information about all of your feeds.
Click Feeds in the left navigation pane to view the Feeds page.
Add a new feed
Click Request New Feed. The Configure Your New Feed page opens.
Choose a Name for your feed, and optionally add a Description.
Select the Source from the available sources.
In the Error Handling field, enter a numeric value between 0-100 that represents the percentage of allowable errors that can occur before failing.
Select a Feed Layout to use for the feed. You can optionally click View Feed Layouts to see the fields within a given feed layout (refer to Feed layout general information).
In the Naming Convention field, specify the input file pattern to use for your feed files. For example,
party_profile_*.The Frequency section allows you to view information about the feed you’re requesting.
Click Save New Feed to save the feed or Publish to run the feed.
Feed status
The Feed Status section at the top of the page provides an overview of the status of your feeds.
The Feed Status section displays the same information as the Feed Status section on the Data observability Overview page.
The Feed State section displays the same information as the Feed State section on the Data observability Overview page plus the disabled feed counts.
The Feed Stale Status section provides information about stale feeds.
Feed list filters
Feed list filters allow you to sort and filter your feeds.
Toggle the Show Sources switch to display just the feeds, or the feeds categorized by their associated source.
Click Filters to filter your feeds by status, state, staleness, or number of records processed.
Click Order by: to choose how feeds are ordered in the list.
Feed list card
The feed list provides detailed information about your feeds.
At the top-left of each feed card in the list is the feed name. You can click the name to view the definition of that feed.
If there is a notable state (such as STALE or Paused), you'll see it above the feed name.
The Run Status shows the status of the last run (such as Running, Completed, Error, or Waiting).
There's also the timestamp of the last run and the source file name.
In the middle portion of the feed list card there's information about the records, including:
The total number of records
The number of records quarantined
The number of records ignored
The number of duplicate records
The right portion of the feed list card provides feed run quality metrics as well as a vertical ellipsis menu that provides options to:
View feed definition
View latest feed instance
Pause/start feed
Enable/disable feed
See Feed run quality metrics for definitions of the terms validity, timeliness, and completeness.
For a definition of quarantined in the glossary.
Feed Definition page
To display the Feed Definition page, in a Feed section on the Feeds page, do one of the following:
Click a feed name
Click the vertical ellipsis menu icon and select View Feed Definition
The Feed Definition page gives you a deeper understanding of what a feed does by displaying the feed metadata. It provides information about the following:
The feed state, status, elapsed time of the last feed run, when the last feed run completed, and when the next feed run is scheduled.
The feed metadata.
The feed columns. By default, fields are ordered by index number, in ascending order.
Click Index to switch to descending order.
Click Column Name to order by column name; click again to switch ascending to descending order.
Click Filter Columns to filter fields by text string.
For definitions of Valid Values, Match Field, PII, and Valid Ranges in the glossary.
Feed Instance page
To display the Feed Instance page, you can do either of the following:
In a Feed section on the Feeds page, click the vertical ellipsis menu icon and select View Latest Feed Instance
On the Feed Definition page, click the Feed Instance tab
The Feed Instance page displays information on the latest run of a feed. It provides information about:
How many records were processed.
How many records were inserted, updated, and ignored.
What the total individual match rate was.
What the quality metrics are for this run.
Records Processed section
Refer to the definition of Ignore in the glossary.
Instance History popup
A history of feed runs helps you to identify patterns. Click Instance History to display a popup of a list of stats for all feed runs.
Clicking on a Run Date and Time link displays the Feed Instance page for that specific feed run.
Quality section
Hover over a quality metric to display the metric value and a definition of the metric term. Gray means that there's not enough data to do a calculation.
For the Quality section, see Feed run quality metrics for definitions of terms validity, timeliness, and completeness. See staleness for a definition of the term.
Errors metric popups
Hover over the red triangle to display an Errors popup with information about the percentage of errors in a feed and the error threshold defined for the feed.
Click View to display an Errors popup that lists the actual generated errors.
Feed Columns section
This section displays the data that came in for this feed instance.
The feed columns. By default, fields are ordered by index number, in ascending order.
Click Index to switch to descending order.
Click Column Name to order by column name; click again to switch ascending to descending order.
Click Filter Columns to filter fields by text string.
This section also provides information about:
How many values were distinct
How many values were populated
How many values were null
Click the pie chart icon to display a popup of the top ten values. This can tell you whether the data being passed in is populating the correct column.
Click the right arrow to expand a section that displays which Target Table flows to which Target Column, and the transformation between, if any.