Top use cases
Save the prompts you reuse and regenerate diagrams every time your stack changes.
Document streaming pipelines with SLAs and replay paths
Show stateful processing and storage for aggregates
Align producers/consumers on schemas and contracts
Share latency budgets with stakeholders
Workflow that ships
List producers, topics/streams, processing jobs, and sinks. Include SLAs.
Ask AI to separate ingest, process, and serve with latency budgets.
Label schemas, contracts, and backfill/replay paths.
Export for on-call runbooks and performance reviews.
Prompt recipes
Copy, tweak, and save in your repo so regenerations stay consistent.
"Draw a streaming pipeline with Kafka, Flink/Spark, state store, and serving to ClickHouse/Elasticsearch/warehouse. Add SLAs."
"Show replay and backfill paths for late data handling with CDC."
"Create a consumer map for marketing, product, and fraud analytics with schemas."
Quality checklist
Topics show schemas, retention, and owners.
Latency budgets and SLAs are visible per stage.
State stores and replay paths are documented.
Alerting and on-call contacts are attached.
Why use Datadef
Prompt-to-canvas in seconds
Generate React Flow diagrams from prompts, then tweak nodes, metadata, and z-index with live collaboration.
Always in sync
Save prompts alongside canvas versions so you can regenerate diagrams as schemas, services, or policies change.
Shareable and auditable
Export PNG/SVG for decks, or share live canvases with lineage, SLAs, and runbook links for reviewers.
Built for data teams
Support data mesh, lakehouse, and streaming patterns with typed nodes for tables, pipelines, services, and governance layers.
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FAQ
How do I show latency budgets?
Add time targets on edges (ingest, process, serve) and highlight where alerts fire when breached.
Should I include batch consumers?
Yes. Mark them as downstream batch consumers to show dual-use of the stream.
Can AI help with schema governance?
Include schemas and compatibility rules in the prompt so AI surfaces contract status and owners.
Ship faster
Generate your next diagram with AI
Capture the prompt once, regenerate after every schema change, and keep diagrams audit-ready.