Configuration

Step	Required	Parameters	Options
Validator type	✅	Relative time
Config	✅	Source field	Any timestamp field
Config	✅	Field to subtract	Any timestamp field
Config	✅	Metric	Minimum difference Maximum difference Mean difference
Config		Backfill	Initialize with backfill (checkbox)
Source config	✅	Segmentation	Select a configured Segmentation Or Unsegmented (default)
Source config	✅	Window	Select a configured Window
Source config		Filter	No filter (default) Boolean Enum Null (*1) String Threshold filter
Threshold	✅	Threshold type	Fixed threshold Dynamic threshold
Threshold	✅(*2)	Operator	Less than Less than or equal Equal Not equal Greater than Greater than or equal
Threshold	✅(*3)	Value	Specify numeric value to validate threshold on
Threshold	✅(*4)	Sensitivity	Enter a numeric value
Threshold	✅(*4)	Decision bounds type	Upper Lower Upper and lower (default)

*1 Only applicable for nullable columns

*2 Only applicable for Fixed thresholds

*3 Only applicable for Fixed thresholds

*4 Only applicable for Dynamic thresholds

Configuration details

The relative time validator calculates the time difference on two fields for each record:

Time Difference = Source field - Field to subtract

The computed metric is then either max, min, or mean of the time difference within a window. The calculated fields must be valid timestamps.

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The difference can be negative if the timestamp in the target field lies in the future, relative to data time field timestamp.

Sensitivity

Higher sensitivity means that the accepted range of values is narrower, which identifies more anomalies. Conversely, lower sensitivity values imply a wider range of accepted values, which identifies fewer anomalies.