Run a Monitor

After you create a monitor with assets and relevant checks, you need to run the monitor to generate the data quality score. This process applies the checks configured on tables or columns in a data source or a BI report.

1. Navigate to the Alation Data Quality application and click the Monitors tab.

2. Search for the monitor you need to run.

3. Click on the monitor name to open the Monitors page.

4. Perform one of the following steps:

   1. To immediately run the monitor, click Run Now on the top-right corner of the page.

   2. To schedule the monitor run, click the Settings tab.

      1. In the Schedule section, set the schedule to run the monitor either Daily or Weekly, or (Hourly if you have the Enterprise+ tier license)

         • For daily monitoring, set the time for running the monitor.

         • For weekly monitoring, set the day and time for running the monitor.

      2. Click Save.