Enhance Data Governance in Lexicon with New Data Standards Feature
Enforce better governance with Data Standards 🚓 | @channel
We’ve made it easier than ever for teams to enforce trustworthy, consistent data with our new Data Standards feature — now available for Enterprise customers. This update empowers Data Governors to define event naming and metadata requirements for their projects, and instantly spot events that don’t comply. The new Data Standards feature includes:
🔴 Custom Rules: Define rules for naming conventions, event owners, descriptions, and uploaded images — all from the new Data Standards tab in Lexicon.
✔️ Compliance Statuses in Lexicon: Events are automatically evaluated and flagged as compliant or non-compliant, with visual indicators for events that are misnamed or missing metadata
🫧 Filters for Fast Cleanup: Quickly surface and fix non-compliant events using a new, dedicated filter view in Lexicon
Data Standards gives Data Governors peace of mind — and makes it easier for everyone else to trust, explore, and analyze clean, reliable data. This feature is available exclusively for Enterprise plans. Learn more in our documentation here. PS: Up next is automation 🔃! We’re exploring ways to apply automated actions when your Data Standards are met or violated — such as auto-hiding non-compliant events, or automating Event Approval. Interested in early access? Reach out to your Mixpanel Account Manager today.
Started using it already 🙂 Can you explain if the verification is also new and how it works? Couldn't figure it out.
Glad you are using in Johannes K.! Yes, you can mark any event, behavior, formula, or custom event in Lexicon as verified by clicking on the specific one you want and clicking “Verify.” More in this doc here.
Important release! Congratulations, DJ S. and team! Data standards are absolutely necessary. We recently released a white paper on data mesh for event based data with a recipe to reach data quality at scale and enforced data standards are one of the necessary ingredients.
Is it any plans to roll this out to Growth plan? 🙂
Thanks Eric N., looks great! Could I just double check what happens to events that violate one of the enabled standards as it isn't 100% clear to me from the documentation, please? For example, if I enable the "descriptions" standard, I'm assuming that events without descriptions will continue to feed as normal, but will be flagged as violating the standard - is that correct?
Hi Kasia! I'm the Product Manager for this feature. Your understanding is correct; thanks for flagging, can make more clear in docs. Also, please feel free to let me know if there's anything else you wish we would do if that standard was violated; we're actively trying to prioritize what comes next!
