Metrics catalog and joins

May 25, 2023·2 min read

This month we are introducing new ways of bringing order to your metrics and more flexibility defining metrics with joins. Read on for more.

Nino Höglund

CPO, Steep

Get organized!

No more separate stale documentation for your metrics. You can now document your metrics and explore them in the same place. The new metrics catalog allows you to describe and categorize all of your metrics, and make it easy for everyone in the organization to explore and use them directly.

Sections

Owners

Distribute responsibility by setting metric owners.

Assign one or more people to each metric
Start maintaining your definitions in a scalable way

Joins

Also new this month is the ability to use joins in Steep. This gives you the flexibility to use your tables just as they are. Define them once using our simple interface and use them anywhere. No code required.

Legend

Define

Head over to the new Tables & joins section in Settings and hit Create new join. Create any type of join across multiple tables in a familiar format. Steep will then suggest a nice readable name for your join.

Time stepper

Using joins

To use a join, create or edit a metric and choose a Table. This lists both your joins as well as tables and views. You can even create or manage joins directly from here. After selecting a join, you can use all your new columns as values, dimensions or filters in your metric.

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