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AI-powered development with Copilot for Data pipeline – Boost your productivity in understanding and updating pipeline

Understanding complex data pipelines created by others can often be a challenging task, especially when users must review each activity individually to understand its configurations, settings, and functions. Additionally, manul updates to general settings, such as timeout and retry parameters, across multiple activities can be time-consuming and tedious.

Copilot for Data pipeline introduces advanced capabilities to simplify these processes. With structured summaries from Copilot, users can easily comprehend complex pipelines and leverage these summaries to update pipeline and activity descriptions. Furthermore, Copilot enables users to efficiently update multiple pipeline settings and configurations through simple, natural language interactions, streamlining workflow and enhancing productivity.

Easily understand your pipeline with Copilot Explanation

Copilot offers a summary of pipelines and structured detailed insights into the activities based on their orchestration. Additionally, it also provides handy links to directly connect the summary to detailed activity information.

Pipeline Copilot explaination
Copilot generate explanation for Data pipeline

Effortlessly document your pipeline with Copilot Summary

Copilot Summary enables effortlessly updates to Pipeline descriptions and individual activity descriptions within the pipeline. Before making any changes, users can review the summarized descriptions provided by Copilot for clarity. Once updated, hovering over activity elements allows users to quickly understand their purpose and functionality through concise and informative descriptions.

Use Pipeline summary to update descrtiption
Document pipeline with Copilot summarize description

Efficiently update multiple pipeline settings by chatting with Copilot

Efficiently update settings like timeout and retry parameters for multiple activities within your data pipeline by simply chatting with Copilot, using straightforward natural language commands.

Update several pipeline settings
Update multiple Data pipeline settings

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