The push toward data-driven decision making and explosion of AI workflows has dramatically expanded how much data is available to, and accessed by, individuals and agents within companies. Teams that once relied on limited datasets now have direct production access, powering analysis, experimentation, and automation.

As more people and systems gain access to sensitive data, security and compliance teams need confidence that data use remains appropriate, auditable, and aligned with policy. That’s why we’re launching ALTR’s Activity Dashboard, a new capability in our data security platform that gives you a clear view into how, when, and by whom your data is accessed.

By powering database activity monitoring with the same integration as our unified access control, tokenization, and format-preserving encryption, we’re helping organizations accelerate their data journey, unlocking responsible usage of data and AI.

Why Visibility Matters in the Age of AI

AI often depends on sensitive data: by training or augmented models with proprietary information, businesses unlock more tailored and accurate outcomes. While access controls, tokenization, and encryption help prevent unauthorized data access, analyzing usage patterns reveals how those authorized users interact with data, and determines whether that usage meets your security and compliance standards.

Monitoring this activity is essential for:

• Detecting data misuse by users, applications, agents, or automated jobs.
• Monitoring AI data pipelines for unauthorized or excessive access.
• Aligning security policies with real-world usage across AI and non-AI workloads.

Imagine you have a malicious user trying to exfiltrate data; now you can flag those large queries in real time and shut down their access. Or consider that you have employees accessing data off the company VPN, circumventing compliance requirements; now you can identify those users in real time and take action to get back into compliance. Visibility isn’t optional. It’s the foundation for security and responsible innovation.

Introducing ALTR’s Activity Dashboard

ALTR’s Activity Dashboard provides a unified, real-time view of database behavior. From one view, you can:

• Visualize query activity over time, with both real-time information and historical trends.
• Drill into specific queries to see execution trends and usage context.
• Breakdown by user, IP address, or data type to track who’s accessing sensitive information.
• Correlate activity with policies, validating whether access rules are working as intended.

All of this runs on the same platform you already use for access control, tokenization, and encryption, enabling visibility and protection from one unified platform.

How Activity Monitoring Strengthens Data Security

Activity monitoring isn’t just about metrics, it’s about understanding behavior. With the Query Activity Dashboard, teams can:

• Proactively detect anomalies such as unusual query spikes or unexpected access from new services.
• Validate policy effectiveness, ensuring access patterns align with your intended controls.
• Support audits and compliance with clear, query-level evidence of data access.

These capabilities give security and data engineering teams a shared view of database operations — bridging the gap between security enforcement and operational insight.

What’s Available Today

The first release of the Activity Dashboard includes:

• Query-level metrics for activity and user volume.
• Top query and user views, showing who and what is driving load.
• Drill-down filtering by user and role.
• Historical trends to help you spot recurring patterns or outliers.

All of this is available with ALTR’s Snowflake Cloud Integration, with no additional deployment or vendor integrations required.

Where We’re Going Next

This is another step towards the broader vision for Database Activity Monitoring within ALTR.

Coming soon, we plan to introduce:

• Analytics for additional data sources, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Postgres.
• Expanded event support, including login and policy information.
• Anomaly detection and alerting, to automatically flag unusual access or usage trends.
• Cross-database analytics, giving teams a single, unified view across environments and workloads.

Our goal is to make data visibility, control, and protection seamless — so you can innovate with confidence, whether securing traditional workloads or the data that powers your AI systems.

Start Exploring Your Database Activity

The ALTR Activity Dashboard is now available for all customers using our Snowflake Cloud integration! If you’re interested in learning more, or would like to work with us on future feature improvements, please reach out to your account executive!