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Data migrations from legacy to a new modern stack can be complicated. The first step to figure out what data assets to migrate can be lengthy, manual and error prone.
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K provides insights, recommendations and reports that can be self serviced at the start and during the migration. At the start of the migration, K automates the migration analysis that would otherwise takes months to complete. During the migration, K provides you with live tracking of your migration to ensure you stay on track.
This page is a primer on how to use some of K’s features to help you understand how your legacy data platform is used.
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Understanding usage at the Asset level
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You can use K to understand how a source an entire source (its tables, schema, and databases) is used
You can use the Usage insight dashboard to understand how a particular source is used
Select the usage frequency to see which tables are used daily, weekly, monthly etc.
The dashboards also includes recommendations for .
Go to Insights in the menu, and select Usage Insights. Select the By Sources tab and choose the source you want to review.
On this dashboard you can see
Breakdown of usage by frequency, by trust score. Select a frequency or trust score to see the data assets that belong to that category.
Usage over time
Recommendations to review data assets that are unused or used infrequently. These are good opportunities to archive or free up compute and storage prior to the migration
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To get granular details about usage at the source level, you can use Ask K to extract details from K.
Go to Apps , and select Ask K and . On the management tab . you will see the following options:
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Table Data usage: Select the Usage by source option. Select a source and a time period and run the report.
User usage: Select the Usage by a user option. Select either a single user, all users, or usage by select number of users (useful for finding data assets only used by 1 person). Select a time period and run the report
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