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Changelog 4.6

March 6th, 2025 by Sophy Ting

This release introduces batch creation for sources and validators, email notifications, new integrations for Sigma and Atlan, and more.

Batch Creation of Sources and Validators

In Validio 4.6, we've made a lot of improvements to the source and validator creation flows, including the new functionality to create multiple sources and validators at the same time.

  • For data warehouse sources, if you select multiple tables during the source configuration, Validio creates a source for each table. Additionally, when creating Snowflake or BigQuery sources, you can add metadata validators as part of the source creation flow. For more information, see Configuring a Source and Metadata validators in the product documentation.
  • When adding Numeric Statistic or Null Value validators, if you select multiple fields to configure the metric calculation, Validio creates a validator for the metric calculation of each field. For more information, see Configuring a Validator in the product documentation.
  • When converting catalog assets to sources, you can also select multiple assets to convert to sources at the same. During the source configuration, you will select credentials for each asset. And if there is at least one Snowflake or BigQuery source, you can add metadata validators to the source, as well. For more information, see Convert Assets to Sources in the product documentation.

Incident Notifications via Email

Validio 4.6 introduces a new channel configuration for Email notification messages with rich HTML content. If your email service uses SMTP, you can configure a Validio channel for email. The email message can include graphs or just text. For more information, see Email notification in the product documentation.

New Integrations for Sigma and Atlan

  • Sigma is Business Intelligence Tool built for your cloud data warehouse. Connect Validio to Sigma to view your cloud data warehouse assets and their relationships in Catalog and Lineage. For more information, see Sigma integration in the product documentation.
  • You can now push Validio's data quality insights and metrics to view alongside assets in Atlan, a data catalog solution. For more information, see Atlan integration in the product documentation.

New Adaption Rate for Dynamic Thresholds

You can configure how quickly the dynamic threshold's bounds adapt to changes in your data. This is controlled by the adaption rate parameter, which offers two settings:

  • Fast--The bounds of the dynamic threshold will adapt quickly to recent changes in the data.
  • Slow--The bounds of the dynamic threshold will adapt more gradually, placing more emphasis on historical data.

The following example illustrates bounds of dynamic threshold with different adaption rates. Bounds for Fast widen and narrow more rapidly with changes in data, while the bounds for Slow are more persistent in following the downward trend and triggering alarms when the trend changes.

The Fast setting represents the previous default behavior of dynamic thresholds. The choice between Fast and Slow adaptation depends on the characteristics of your data and your monitoring goals. For more information, see Configuring Dynamic Thresholds in the product documentation.

4.6.1

Validio 4.6.1 was released on 27 March 2025.

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed an issue with lineage refresh batching (VR-4316)
  • Fixed an issue with the scrollbar in Incidents lists on Validator details pages (UI-4735)
  • Fixed an issue with user search (UI-4699)

Enhancements

  • API--Added Owner field for sources and validators (UI-4731)
  • Sort windows by creation date in the Validator wizard (UI-4747)
  • Improved error messages when testing Slack and Microsoft Teams channels configuration (VR-4217, VR-4194)
  • Changed Email channel settings to make username and password optional (VR-4304)
  • Added logs for configuration update errors at the error level (VR-4256)

4.6.0

Validio 4.6.0 was released on 20 March 2025.

API Changes

Deprecations

  • Deprecated all API methods, fields, and types related to recommendations (UI-4667)
  • Deprecated numeric anomaly validator APIs (UI-4666)

Fixed Issues

  • Dynamic Thresholds--The decision bound is an optional setting in the API, and if it is not supplied, it will default to Upper and Lower. In future releases, we intend for this setting to be required. If you currently do not set this value, we recommend that you set the bound explicitly when using the API to avoid breaking in a future release.

Platform Changes

Enhancements

  • Added adaption rate option to Dynamic Thresholds (UI-4652)
  • Added batch creation function for data warehouses sources, numeric statistic validators, and null values validators (UI-4443)
  • Added support for new Atlan, Sigma, and Email channel integrations

User Interface Changes

Fixed Issues

  • In the notification rules wizard, the channel dropdown now filters based on the selected channel type (UI-4615)
  • During a backfill, the backfill start banner should not display (UI-4677)
  • Disable debug button for incidents on metadata validators (UI-4641)
  • Automatically refresh metrics graph when new data arrives (UI-4674)
  • Perform Mime-type validation when uploading credential files (UI-4644)
  • Fixed an issue with selection state while searching in comboboxes (UI-4517)

Enhancements

  • Added a readable summary for polling schedule when converting assets (UI-4682)
  • Added a comment box in incident group activity list (UI-4452)
  • Actions for selected list elements are now shown as a floating panel (UI-4573)
  • Updated recommendations for creating tumbling windows, mean value validators, and null value validators (UI-4664)
  • Updated menu items to make destructive actions, such as delete and reset, more clear (UI-4562)