The report owner asks whether analytics engineering or ingestion operations should investigate first. Build five evidence queries, then choose an action using the supplied loader log. Deliver evidence without changing raw records.
Harbor Cart's morning report looks old. The raw order records include business timestamps and update timestamps, while Pulse Path event records include arrival timestamps.
Your first job is to inspect the evidence without claiming that every delay belongs to dbt. A successful transformation can faithfully reproduce stale source data.
Build a small incident evidence pack in the same project. Separate missing timestamps from timestamp order, count the records you can inspect, and preserve the actual maximum values. You'll finish with a checked ownership decision from a stated run log.
The final recommendation must follow that log; a late event timestamp by itself doesn't establish a late load. Avoid replacing missing timestamps with the current time, because that makes an unknown load look fresh.