Features
Comprehensive guides for all Beacon capabilities.
Core Features
Data Sources
Manage connections across nine connectors — PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, AWS CloudWatch, and a generic REST API. Organize them into projects for your monitoring queries.
Queries
Define SQL queries with parameter support. Create simple queries or complex multi-step workflows.
Subscriptions
Schedule query execution with cron expressions. Control when and how often your queries run.
Notifications
Deliver query results via Email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, or Jira. Configure recipients and notification formats.
Data Migration
Extract, transform, and load data between databases using multi-step ETL pipelines. Support for cross-database migrations with scheduling and retry capabilities.
MCP Server
Connect AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf) to your data through the Model Context Protocol. Natural language queries, schema search, and documentation — all project-scoped with API key authentication, M-Schema-grounded SQL generation, AST read-only validation, and a self-improving learning loop.
Operations & Quality
Control Tower
A real-time operations view across every scheduled check: health buckets, success rates, anomaly sparklines, and open-task counts — auto-refreshing.
Tasks
Alerting tasks created automatically when a check finds problems, tracked through to resolution and auto-resolved when the data recovers.
Data Quality
Define data contracts and evaluate them on a schedule, with scoring and evaluation history.
Advanced Features
User Management
Built-in user management with internal (password) and external (JWT/OAuth) authentication. First-run setup wizard, role assignment, and account administration.
Admin Settings
Runtime application configuration through the Admin Settings UI. Hot-swap LLM providers, manage base URL, and view change history - all without restarting.
Authorization
Secure your Beacon installation with flexible authorization. Support for role-based access control (RBAC), database-backed roles, and custom authorization providers. Integrate with any authentication system.
Anomaly Detection
Statistical anomaly detection that learns baselines from historical execution data and alerts on unusual patterns.
API Keys
Scoped API keys (Read, Execute, Admin) with optional per-project restrictions and expiry — SHA256-hashed at rest, shown exactly once.
AI Integration (Experimental)
Auto-generate data source documentation with ERD diagrams and turn natural language into SQL alerts using a runtime-swappable LLM provider.
AI Actors (Experimental)
LLM-driven monitoring agents whose plans pass through a human approval workflow before anything executes.
Quick Links
🚀 New to Beacon?
Start with the Quick Start Guide to create your first alert in 30 minutes.
🔗 Advanced Use Cases?
See Queries for multi-step query chaining and cross-database joins, and Data Sources for schema-agnostic, multi-tenant configuration.