# Introduction

Telmai is a data quality monitoring platform built natively inside **Microsoft Fabric**. It helps data teams discover quality issues, track data health over time, and get alerted when something goes wrong — without writing code, SQL rules, or managing pipelines.

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## What you can do with Telmai

* **Monitor your Fabric data** — [connect Lakehouses and Warehouses](/user-guide/connecting-assets.md) and deploy automated checks in minutes
* **Detect issues automatically** — [monitors](/user-guide/monitor-types.md) run on a schedule and create [incidents](/user-guide/incidents.md) when data doesn't meet your standards
* **Investigate with AI** — ask the [Copilot](/user-guide/copilot.md) questions like "which assets have the most open incidents?" and get answers based on live data
* **Get notified** — send alerts to [Slack, Teams, email, or any webhook](/user-guide/administration.md) when a data quality issue is detected
* **Track coverage** — see which assets are monitored, which aren't, and where your highest-risk gaps are in the [DQ Report](/user-guide/dq-report.md)

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## How it works

Telmai opens inside a Fabric workspace as a **MonitorSet** item. Your data stays in Fabric — Telmai only reads computed metric values (row counts, null ratios, timestamps). Raw data never leaves your tenant.

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## Documentation

| Section                                               | Description                                               |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Quick Start](/getting-started/quick-start.md)        | Get monitoring set up in under 10 minutes                 |
| [What is Telmai](/getting-started/overview.md)        | Key concepts and how it works                             |
| [Connecting Assets](/user-guide/connecting-assets.md) | Browse Fabric and register tables for monitoring          |
| [Monitor Types](/user-guide/monitor-types.md)         | Record count, freshness, completeness, schema, custom SQL |
| [Scan Jobs](/user-guide/scan-jobs.md)                 | How scans run and how to trigger them on demand           |
| [Incidents](/user-guide/incidents.md)                 | Understanding and managing data quality incidents         |
| [DQ Report](/user-guide/dq-report.md)                 | Data quality health dashboard                             |
| [AI Copilot](/user-guide/copilot.md)                  | Ask questions about your data quality environment         |
| [Administration](/user-guide/administration.md)       | Alert channels, Jira integration, and permissions         |
| [API Reference](/api-reference/overview.md)           | REST API and MCP server for programmatic access           |


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