Overview
Data quality testing named after the practice of shining a light through an egg. Catches nulls, duplicates, and impossible dates before they hatch into incidents.
Candle is part of our Data & Analytics line, and it plays nicely with HatchRate and GizzardGrind, so you can adopt it one perch at a time. Turn raw feed into golden insights, one egg-citing dashboard at a time.
Teams usually start with the free Chick plan, move to Hen when the flock grows past a handful, and graduate to Rooster once the security team wants audit logs. The upgrade is one click, and nobody needs to molt.
Key features
- Candle candles every incoming record and rejects anything with a crack in the schema.
- Anomaly detection tuned to the difference between a quiet coop and a suspiciously quiet coop.
- Exports to CSV, Parquet, and a nicely arranged egg carton PDF.
- Row-level security so nobody sees a record that is not theirs to peck.
- Natural-language queries: type "how many eggs last Tuesday" and we will understand, mostly.
Specifications
| Ingest rate | 800 MB/sec |
|---|---|
| Retention | Forever, like a fossil |
| Query latency (p95) | 180 ms |
| Connectors | 120 built-in |
| SKU | PS-DATA-006 |
| Category | Data & Analytics |
| Released | 2023-09-18 |
| Current version | 6.11.1 |
Plans
Chick
Free
For one hen and a dream.
- 1 seat
- Community support
- Core features
- Watermarked with a tiny egg
Hen
$18/mo
For flocks that lay every day.
- Up to 25 seats
- Email and chat support
- Everything in Chick
- Integrations with the flock
Rooster
$72/mo
For the whole barnyard.
- Unlimited seats
- 24/7 clucking support
- SSO and audit logs
- A named support goose
Quick start
$ cluck install candle
$ cluck candle init --coop us-east-1
✔ Candle hatched in 4.0s
✔ Connected to coop us-east-1 (16 hens online)
Next: cluck candle --helpNeed more? The cluck install reference covers flags, and the getting started guide covers everything else.
What the flock says
I have been pecking at software for 20 years and this is the first time it pecked back, helpfully.
We replaced three tools with Candle and nobody has asked where the old ones went.
Honestly better than the previous coop. Support answered within a cluck.
Frequently asked questions
Do you offer discounts for non-profits?
We offer 50% off to non-profits, schools, and sanctuaries. Rescue hens get a free Chick plan for life.
Who do I call when something goes wrong?
Our 24/7 clucking support line at (06) 123CLUCK. Please do not call during the 3 p.m. egg break, because we do not pick up.
Is Candle secure?
It is protected by CoopGuard at the perimeter and FeatherLock at rest, and audited annually by TalonAudit. Also, we have never lost a chicken. To our knowledge.