# Connecting Assets

A **data asset** is a Fabric table registered in Telmai for monitoring. This page explains how to discover and connect assets from your Fabric workspace.

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## Browsing the Fabric Catalog

The onboarding flow navigates your Fabric workspace hierarchy top-down:

```
Workspace → Lakehouse or Warehouse → Table
```

1. Go to the **Onboarding** page (or click **Add Assets** from the [Monitor Dashboard](/readme.md))
2. Select a **Workspace** — only workspaces you have access to are shown
3. Select a **Lakehouse** or **Warehouse** item within that workspace
4. Browse the available tables — you can see row count, column schema, and last updated time
5. Select one or more tables using the checkboxes

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## Deploying Monitors

After selecting tables, click **Deploy Monitors**. Telmai will:

1. Register each selected table as a monitored asset
2. Automatically create 4 default monitors per table:
   * [Record Count](/user-guide/monitor-types.md#record-count)
   * [Freshness](/user-guide/monitor-types.md#freshness)
   * [Completeness](/user-guide/monitor-types.md#completeness)
   * [Schema](/user-guide/monitor-types.md#schema)
3. Analyze the table's data patterns to pre-configure sensible defaults (e.g., which column to use for freshness, which columns to track for completeness)

You can customize any monitor configuration after deployment from the Monitor Dashboard.

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## Lakehouse vs Warehouse

Both item types are fully supported and work the same way from the UI. Telmai automatically handles the differences between Lakehouses and Warehouses — you don't need to configure anything differently.

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## Managing Assets

* **Remove an asset**: deletes all monitors, scan history, and incidents for that asset
* **Edit display name or description**: click the asset name on the Monitor Dashboard
* **Bulk operations**: select multiple assets and use **Bulk Edit** to update the schedule or alert channel across all of them at once
* **Refresh metadata**: re-run the ingestion analysis from the asset detail panel to update column information and recommended settings

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## AI-Recommended Monitoring

During onboarding, Telmai analyzes each table's data patterns and shows a recommended reason for monitoring it. This helps you prioritize which tables to start with and informs the default monitor configuration.

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## Next Steps

* [Configure monitor thresholds and schedules](/user-guide/monitor-types.md)
* [Run an on-demand scan](/user-guide/scan-jobs.md)
* [Set up alert notifications](/user-guide/administration.md)


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