Datafold

Datafold is a data reliability platform designed to help data engineering and analytics teams prevent issues before they reach production. It focuses on automating data quality checks across the development lifecycle, particularly during data migrations, refactoring, and ongoing pipeline changes. The platform provides automated data diffing, allowing users to compare tables, columns, and metrics across environments (such as staging vs. production) to detect schema changes, missing records, or unexpected value differences.

Datafold integrates with modern data stacks, including dbt, warehouses, and orchestration tools, to surface potential data regressions as part of code review and CI workflows. Engineers can use it to validate the impact of SQL changes, ensure backward compatibility during warehouse or ETL migrations, and monitor critical datasets over time. The tool also offers data lineage visualization, enabling teams to trace how changes propagate through downstream models, dashboards, and reports.