Configuring a Validator

Use the Validator configuration wizard to configure Validators in your source.

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Prerequisites

Before you start the Validator configuration wizard, you must configure:

1. Select source

Navigate to the Validators tab on the Source you want to configure a Validator for.

2. Configure new Validator

Click + New Validator to start the Validator configuration wizard.

Start the Validator configuration wizard.

Start the Validator configuration wizard.

3. Select Validator type

Select which Validator type you want to configure.

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Configuration steps look different depending on Validator type

For details on configuration parameters, refer to the respective Validator type.

**Numeric distribution** Validator configuration wizard - Select Validator type.

Numeric distribution Validator configuration wizard - Select Validator type.

4. Config

Select which metric to calculate.

Optionally, select Initialize with backfill to use Backfill.

** Numeric distribution** Validator configuration wizard - Config.

Numeric distribution Validator configuration wizard - Config.

5. Source config

Select the required source config options for your Validator.

Optionally, set a filter to filter out values from the Validator metric calculation.

**Numeric distribution** Validator configuration wizard - Source config.

Numeric distribution Validator configuration wizard - Source config.

6. Reference source config

Specify details about your reference source.

**Numeric distribution** Validator configuration wizard - Reference source config.

Numeric distribution Validator configuration wizard - Reference source config.

7. Threshold

Define a Threshold to specify what values of the calculated Validator metric should be considered an incident.

**Numeric distribution** Validator configuration wizard - Threshold.

Numeric distribution Validator configuration wizard - Threshold.

8. Finish set-up

Navigate to the Source details tab and click on a Validator to view details, graphs, incidents, and edit thresholds.

Note: You must start your source before the Validators can calculate metrics on your data.

Example of the information displayed for a Validator.

Example of the information displayed for a Validator.