Connectors, plugins and tools, on one map.
Connectors bring your tools onto one graph. Plugins add capabilities on top of it. MCP tools and clients take it to where you work: your AI assistant, your terminal, your editor, your chat.
See how it all fits together.
Pick anything to see what it works with. Switch to Open Source only to see what the free edition includes.
Connectors 7
Open-source core 4
Enterprise plugins 9
Clients 7
Open-source core
Lineage graph
Every asset and its column-level lineage, built from what actually ran.
Read more about Lineage graph →Works with
- Assets, column lineage and runs
- Cubes, dossiers and their lineage to the warehouse
- Repositories and deploy provenance
- Drive, Sheets, Docs and Slides changes
- Curated metadata on every asset
- Profiles and checks assets
- Cost rolled up by asset, team and user
- Answers questions from the graph
- Lineage, Resource Passport and impact
- Search, lineage, impact, health and usage
- How much sits upstream and downstream, on hover
- Lineage and health in the console
- The blast radius of each merge request
Needs Nistor Enterprise
Connects to the tools you already run.
Read-only collectors turn each tool's metadata, logs and runs into facts on one graph. Some also let Nistor act: run a job, refresh a cube, comment on a merge request.
Google Cloud
StableBigQuery, Dataform, Data Fusion, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Composer, Cloud Run and more: 25 asset types.
MicroStrategy
StableCubes, dossiers, reports and schedules, with lineage from dossier to cube to warehouse, including SAP HANA tables.
Sifflet
StableWith Data quality (Enterprise), Sifflet rule runs and asset health come in, failures open Nistor incidents, and Sifflet rules can migrate to Nistor checks.
Works through Nistor Enterprise: Data quality
Collected facts, setup and examples →Castor / Coalesce
BetaGlossary, descriptions, tags, owners and dashboard usage, brought read-only into the Catalog of Nistor Enterprise.
Works through Nistor Enterprise: Catalog
Collected facts, setup and examples →GitLab
PreviewRepositories and deploy provenance on the graph, rules synced from git, and an MR bot that posts each change's blast radius.
Google Workspace
PreviewDrive, Sheets, Docs and Slides changes on the activity timeline, with alerts when a source sheet changes.
ODCS contracts
BetaImport, export and validate Open Data Contract Standard v3.1 contracts, and check them for schema drift with Catalog.
Build your own
Every tool is a package that reports facts through the core contracts. The repo ships a template and a conformance kit.
Tool authoring guide coming soonGoogle Cloud first. AWS and Azure next.
Nistor's core names no vendor: warehouses, object storage, message buses and secrets plug in through open-source contracts, and each cloud arrives as its own connector. Google Cloud is the first, and the deepest. AWS and Azure are next, so one graph holds the lineage, schedules and spend of every cloud you run.
| Capability | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lineage & assets | Available25 asset types, and column lineage from BigQuery audit logs | PlannedS3, Glue Data Catalog, Redshift and Athena | PlannedData Lake Storage, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric and Azure SQL |
| Scheduling | AvailableRules run Dataform, Data Fusion and BigQuery jobs | PlannedRules run Glue jobs, Step Functions and Amazon MWAA | PlannedRules run Data Factory and Fabric pipelines |
| Incidents & trust | AvailableFailed runs, missed freshness and broken contracts | PlannedFailed Glue and Step Functions runs, late data | PlannedFailed Data Factory and Fabric runs, late data |
| FinOpsEnterprise | AvailableBigQuery job cost by table, team and user | PlannedCost and Usage Reports, Redshift and Athena query cost | PlannedCost Management exports, Synapse and Fabric capacity |
| Data qualityEnterprise | AvailableChecks on BigQuery and Cloud Storage | PlannedChecks on Redshift, Athena and S3 | PlannedChecks on Synapse, Fabric and Data Lake Storage |
| Install Nistor | AvailableCloud Run, Cloud SQL and Pub/Sub, with the Terraform in the repo | Coming soonIn your own AWS account | Coming soonIn your own Azure subscription |
Tools that are not tied to a cloud connect today, wherever they run: MicroStrategy, GitLab, Google Workspace and ODCS contracts, plus Sifflet and Castor with Enterprise.
Running on AWS or Azure? Tell us what you run →Enterprise plugins, built on the same graph.
Each plugin adds one capability on top of the open-source core and reads the facts the connectors collect. They install in the same deployment, with Nistor Enterprise.
Catalog
EnterpriseCurated descriptions, owners, domains, certification, glossary and data products; Castor and BigQuery descriptions flow in.
Data quality
EnterpriseChecks on BigQuery, Cloud Storage and MicroStrategy, with a wizard, profiling, drift detection and human verdicts; Sifflet, Dataplex and Dataform results flow in.
AI forecasting
EnterprisePart of Data quality: picks and tunes the best forecaster per metric to set check thresholds.
FinOps
EnterpriseCost by asset, team and user, with budgets, anomalies, chargeback and recommendations.
Advisor
EnterpriseRanked improvement proposals with review, apply and one-click reversal.
Security
EnterpriseSecret scanning, static analysis and dependency audit over orchestrated code and SQL.
AI assistant & routines
EnterpriseChat over your platform, plus routines that send briefs to an alert channel: morning failures, weekly cost, node health and team reports.
Incident agent
EnterpriseWhen enabled, drafts a cited diagnosis for each incident and proposes actions a human approves.
Agent governance
EnterpriseEnforces each agent's tool allow-list, rate limit and daily budget, in monitor or enforce mode, with per-call telemetry. Registering agents and minting their tokens is open source.
Plugins install in the same deployment as the open-source core. If a licence lapses, they turn read-only; your data is never affected.
Everything in Enterprise →26 questions your AI assistant can ask.
The MCP server gives Claude, Cursor and Gemini CLI read-only access to the graph, over stdio or Streamable HTTP. It never runs, changes or deletes anything. 15 tools work on Open Source; 11 more answer once the Enterprise plugins they read are installed.
Search & lineage
Find assets and follow their lineage.
- Search
nistor_searchFull-text search over assets, incidents and rules; columns and glossary terms with Catalog. - Asset
nistor_get_nodeOne asset's type, owner, description and metadata. - LineageInteractive view
nistor_get_lineageWhat feeds an asset, and what depends on it. - Impact analysis
nistor_impact_analysisEverything downstream that a change or a failure would hit; cost at risk with FinOps. - Health passport
nistor_node_healthAn asset's trust verdict, freshness, run reliability and open incidents, and its checks with Data quality. - Usage
nistor_node_usageWho reads and writes an asset, and how much. - Activity timelineInteractive view
nistor_node_activityRuns, writes and incidents on one asset over time, and its checks with Data quality.
Incidents
What is broken now, and what it affects.
- Incidents
nistor_list_incidentsData incidents, newest first, by status, severity, type and environment. - Incident detail
nistor_get_incidentOne incident with its affected assets and status.
Runs & rules
What ran, what failed and what is waiting.
- Recent runs
nistor_list_runsJob runs, newest first, by state, action or time window. - Run detail
nistor_get_runWhy one run failed: state, timings, retries and cost. - Run stats
nistor_run_statsHow many runs are running, done or failed over a window. - Held actions
nistor_list_on_holdActions the scheduler is holding, and what they wait for. - Rules for an asset
nistor_list_rulesThe rules that schedule an asset, and whether they are paused. - Rule detail
nistor_get_ruleOne rule's trigger, targets, conditions and action.
Catalog
What the data means.
- Term lookupEnterprise
nistor_lookup_termThe official glossary definition of a metric or term. - Catalog entryEnterprise
nistor_get_catalog_assetAn asset's curated description, readme, owner and certification. - Column detailEnterprise
nistor_get_catalog_columnsOne column's description, type, PII, key and null flags, and where it is copied from and to.
Cost
Where the money goes.
- Most expensive assetsEnterprise
nistor_cost_summaryThe assets that cost the most over a window. - BigQuery spendEnterprise
nistor_finops_costsSpend over a date window, by project, user or asset. - Cost anomaliesEnterprise
nistor_cost_anomaliesDetected cost spikes, newest first, with what caused them. - Cost to produceEnterprise
nistor_cost_to_produceAn asset's full cost, including its share of everything upstream.
Data quality
What is checked, and what should be.
- Checks on an assetEnterprise
nistor_list_dq_checksThe quality checks on an asset, with their latest results. - Check detailEnterprise
nistor_get_dq_checkOne check's thresholds, schedule and last ten runs. - Check historyInteractive viewEnterprise
nistor_dq_check_historyA check's metric over time, against its threshold, as a chart. - Recommended checksEnterprise
nistor_recommend_dq_rulesChecks worth adding to an asset, fitted from its profile and history.
Use it where you already work.
Every client reads the same graph through Nistor's API.
Web console
Open SourceThe app itself: the graph, rules, incidents and Data Trust, plus the Enterprise plugins you run.
Read more about Web console →CLI
Open SourceValidate and sync rules, sync alerts and contracts, from GitLab or GitHub CI, with JSON reports; record deployments; scaffold a new tool.
Read more about CLI →MCP server
Open Source15 read-only tools on Open Source (more with Enterprise) for Claude, Cursor and Gemini CLI, over stdio or Streamable HTTP.
Read more about MCP server →VS Code
Open SourceHover a BigQuery table in a .sql file to see its open incidents and how much sits upstream and downstream.
Read more about VS Code →Chrome extension
EnterpriseHealth, lineage and incidents next to the resource on Google Cloud console pages, and a side panel to ask the Enterprise AI assistant.
Read more about Chrome extension →Chat & email alerts
Open SourceAlerts to Slack, Google Chat, Microsoft Teams, email and webhooks. With the Enterprise AI plugin, acknowledge, snooze or resolve them from Google Chat.
GitLab MR bot
Open SourceOnce turned on, comments on each merge request with the assets, rules and open incidents it touches.
Read more about GitLab MR bot →