Use the Lightup app
Learn the basics of working in Lightup
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Learn the basics of working in Lightup
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The Lightup app has three main areas:
Your app role establishes what you can do right away. Look at the top of the left pane to see which app role you have.
If you don't have an Admin menu or an Add New Workspace button, you're an App Viewer. You can be invited to join a workspace. In the left pane, you'll see a list of workspaces where you're a member. Select the arrow at the right edge of a listed workspace to open a menu of commands for that workspace.
You do most of your data quality tasks inside a workspace. All the workspaces you can access appear in the left pane, listed under any app-level controls.
The top bar offers a set of tabs you can select to focus on a specific part of your quality monitoring process.
Select Explorer to activate data assets and set up autometrics (e.g., adjust your profiling or monitoring of data assets).
Select Metrics to focus on metrics (the aggregated, periodic queries that measure data quality).
Select Monitors to focus on monitors (the regular checking of metric values).
Select Incidents to review recent data quality incidents.
Select Dashboard to open a high-level summary of data quality.
When you work on data quality in Lightup, you work inside of workspaces. All datasources and data quality monitoring happen inside workspaces, and the work you can do in each workspace depends on your workspace role. All Lightup data resides inside workspaces.
Everyone who uses Lightup has an app role, and each member of a workspace has a workspace role. Roles confer various abilities to the users who have them. For example, only an App Admin can invite new users to a Lightup instance.
A workspace is a virtual space that enables team collaboration on data quality control. Every datasource, metric, monitor, incident, and dashboard, is part of a workspace. A team can have many workspaces, providing a way to separately track data quality for different domains and to iterate on design.
You need at least the App Editor role to create workspaces.
When a workspace is created, the workspace owner invites one or more existing Lightup app users to join the workspace as members. Only members of the workspace can access the workspace data. Each member also has a workspace role that determines what they can do in the workspace: admin, editor, viewer, and observer.
You'll see all the workspaces that you can open listed in the left pane. Select a workspace to see what it contains and what actions you can perform there.
Your app role dictates what you can do at the app level, outside of a workspace. The following App roles are available:
App Admin - can invite users to Lightup, set their App roles, and create workspaces.
App Editor - can create workspaces but cannot invite new app users to Lightup.
App Viewer - can be invited to join any workspace but cannot create workspaces.
Most operations in Lightup occur within a workspace. Your App Role doesn't affect what you can do in a workspace.
Your workspace role dictates what you can do in a workspace, as follows:
Workspace Admin - Fully manage a workspace, including:
Add/remove users to/from the workspace
Set users' workspace roles in the workspace
Manage query governance policies for the workspace
Manage integrations and schedules for the workspace
Connect to datasources which will be used by the workspace
Perform any function accessible to a workspace editor
Workspace Editor - Perform all data quality related functions of the Lightup platform, including:
Create, edit, view, delete, and search for metrics
Create, edit, view, delete, and search for monitors
View and search for incidents
Accept and reject incidents
Create, edit, view and delete dashboard charts
View queries executed on behalf of a workspace
Workspace Viewer - View all objects created by or visible to a Workspace Editor. Cannot create them or modify them.
Workspace Observer - View objects but not actual data values from the underlying datasource. E.g., a chart could show trends and incidents but not a legend that includes values. The observer role enables data quality monitoring by users who don't have permission to see the actual data.
Most operations in Lightup take place within a workspace, where your workspace role governs what you can do. You may have one role in one workspace and another role in another workspace. For example, you might be a workspace admin of one workspace, a workspace editor of another, and a workspace viewer of another.
When using Lightup in multitenant mode, any user may be added to a workspace via email. When using Lightup in single tenant mode, only existing Lightup users can be added to a workspace. A workspace may have one or more admins. All workspace admins share the responsibility of workspace management.
Note that your app role has no impact on your workspace roles. Your app role only dictates whether you can invite users to the Lightup Platform and whether you can create workspaces. Once you are a member of a workspace, your workspace role dictates what you can do in the workspace.
The, which lists workspaces and app-level commands (such Help or Logout)
The , which has tabs for working with data quality components
The , which takes up the rest of the app window and changes to reflect your choices on the left pane and the top bar
If you're an App Admin, you'll notice an Admin menu right under the app logo. If you have this role, you can create and manage Lightup user accounts, roles, and workspaces.
If you're an App Editor, you won't find an Admin button, but you will notice the Add New Workspace button. As a member of this role, you can create and manage your workspaces, and can invite other Lightup app users to your workspaces.
