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DOWNSTREAM IMPACT DISCOVERYENH-2026-011
HIGH PRIORITY

Data Lineage & Impact Analysis Enhancement

An upstream column renaming change (`order_timestamp` renamed to `order_event_utc`) was deployed to production Silver tables yesterday without prior dependency notice. The change broke 14 executive Tableau dashboards, 6 dbt models, and 3 Snowflake data shares during the CEO's monthly business review. The engineering team had no automated end-to-end lineage graph or impact analysis tool to detect downstream dependencies prior to merge. Engineering must implement automated column-level lineage tracking and a pre-deployment impact analysis engine in CI/CD.

Broken Downstream Assets
23 Assets
Outage Caused14 BI, 6 dbt, 3 Shares
Lineage Visibility
100.0%
Full GraphColumn-level multi-hop
Pre-Deploy Detection
< 2.0 Sec
100% CaughtCI/CD Impact Simulator
Blast Radius Scoring
Automated
Risk Score 1 - 100