# Welcome to Lariat Data

## Overview

Lariat is a Continuous Data Quality monitoring platform to discover data bugs before your consumers do. Ensure data products don’t break even as business logic, input data and infrastructure change.

Lariat helps you build a comprehensive and actionable view of data quality, with less code and infrastructure:

* Validate your data products before delivering them to consumers
* Pinpoint root-cause for bad data in your warehouse, down to the pipeline job and code-level transformation
* Build a discoverable, auditable list of data quality metrics using plain SQL. Reduce duplication and give your team a source of truth for metric definitions.

## Get Started

We've put together some helpful guides for you to get setup with the platform

{% content-ref url="fundamentals/installation-and-configuration" %}
[installation-and-configuration](https://docs.lariatdata.com/fundamentals/installation-and-configuration)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="fundamentals/platform-architecture" %}
[platform-architecture](https://docs.lariatdata.com/fundamentals/platform-architecture)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="fundamentals/working-with-datasets-and-indicators" %}
[working-with-datasets-and-indicators](https://docs.lariatdata.com/fundamentals/working-with-datasets-and-indicators)
{% endcontent-ref %}

## Quick links

{% content-ref url="overview/video-overview" %}
[video-overview](https://docs.lariatdata.com/overview/video-overview)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="overview/core-features" %}
[core-features](https://docs.lariatdata.com/overview/core-features)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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