Governed analytics at a glance | ATX AnalyticsTable Docs

Governed analytics at a glanceOne definition of every number, used everywhere: in sheets, dashboards, cells, alerts, outside AI agents and other applications — and which of these features you need for which job. A governed metric is a measure defined once in the semantic layer (Settings → Semantic objects): its SQL, aggregation, format, the dimensions it can be broken down by, and who certified it. Since release 1.6 that one definition reaches every place a number can appear, so "revenue" means the same thing in a chart, a cell, an alert e-mail, an AI agent's answer and a dashboard embedded in your customer portal.

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Settings and controls documented

Build a chart, pivot or KPI on a governed metric instead of a table
Put one governed number in a cell of a sheet
Make sure reports only ever see definitions a steward approved
Undo a bad change to a metric definition
Be e-mailed when a number spikes, drops, moves more than x % or is forecast to cross a line
Let Claude, Copilot or your own agent ask for governed numbers
Show a dashboard inside your own web application, scoped per customer
Know how far Ask Greg can be trusted, and how that was measured
Prove a definition still runs on its database before it is certified
Assert that a governed number is right (expected value, range, reconciliation, freshness…)
Try a draft measure that nobody else sees, then share it
Define year-to-date, rolling or period-over-period figures once
Combine datasets that live on different databases in one metric
Get correct totals across a one-to-many join
Reuse metrics defined in dbt or OSI, or hand yours to them
Read a pipeline's figures from certified metrics on a schedule
Have Ask Greg build charts, pipelines and stories on certified metrics
Get a short written story of a dashboard, every figure checked
Explain a chart or table in a PDF report
Have an alert e-mail explain itself, or try a rule before scheduling it
Let Claude or Copilot sign in to the MCP server without a pasted token
Governed metric source, METRIC()
Publish gate
Restore a version
Insight watches
MCP server
MCP OAuth sign-in
Embedded analytics
Embed drill-down rows / export
Compile check before certification
Metric tests
Personal definitions
Time-window metrics, fan-out correction
Joins across connections
dbt / OSI import and export
Governed metrics pipeline step
Data stories, AI explanation boxes, AI alert paragraphs

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