A modern metadata platform can notify stewards when a production schema changes unexpectedly. What capability is that demonstrating?
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Short Explanation
Smoke alarms for schemas—when something changes that should not, the catalog pings you. That active monitoring beats finding out months later that reports silently broke.
Full Explanation
Active metadata practices monitor the estate and raise alerts on unexpected schema or lineage changes. Early detection lets stewards update definitions, fix pipelines, and protect consumers before widespread failure. Passive catalogs that only store yesterday’s harvest miss drift until reports break. Prefer monitoring and notification for production schema surprises.