Lightup vs Metaplane

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Metaplane is a cloud data observability platform for monitoring data quality and catching issues before they affect business operations. Its monitors cover volume, schema, freshness, uniqueness, nullness, statistical distribution, and custom SQL. Machine-learning anomaly detection accounts for seasonality and trends, and real-time detection is listed. Column-level lineage maps data from sources through to BI tools and is included in Pro and Enterprise. Data CI/CD previews downstream impact and tests changes in pull requests; it is an add-on in those plans. Integrations include Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, ClickHouse, Databricks, dbt, Tableau, Looker, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, and Jira. Metaplane says it accesses aggregate metadata rather than sensitive customer information. It runs on AWS, hosts servers in the U.S., uses recent TLS versions for connections, and encrypts databases at rest. A free plan is described as free forever, with 10 monitored tables, four users, and three custom SQL monitors; a 14-day trial is also offered.