Validio 5.1 introduces a new version of Dynamic Thresholds and support for custom SQL sources.

Dynamic Threshold V2 Beta

Get hands-on with the next generation of our Dynamic Threshold. This significant upgrade delivers more intelligent, accurate, and reliable alerts by adapting to your data's unique patterns.

Dynamic Threshold V2 will become the new default Dynamic Threshold, serving as an improved platform for us to deliver even smarter anomaly detection capabilities going forward. As V2 incorporates substantial enhancements and uses historic data in a slightly different way, its alerting behavior may sometimes differ from the current Dynamic Threshold you are used to.

As a beta release, you might encounter occasional issues. Your feedback during this period is highly valued.

V2 Features

Reworked Anomaly Detection Engine: A new memory-efficient architecture powers more effective and accurate, real-time anomaly detection.
Improved Freshness Validators: Freshness alerts now adapt better to your data's cadence and systematic changes (like seasonality or shifts), while alerting more consistently on stale data.
More Accurate Anomaly Detection: Precisely adjust detection bounds around level-shift and incidents. V2 adapts more accurately to data baseline changes by intelligently handling shifts and reversions (reducing false alarms), more consistently detecting true change points, and reliably tracking multiple sequential shifts.

Benefits of Using Dynamic V2

Greater Precision: Overcomes the limitations of the current Dynamic Threshold (such as handling of zeros, detection of level shifts, widening of bounds) for more trustworthy alerts.
Adaptive Bounds: Stronger default behavior on how to adapt to new data points.
Simpler Freshness Logic: More predictable Freshness alerts that will make sure you never miss issues with stale data.

Custom SQL Sources

You can now configure SQL-based sources such as data warehouses and query engines by writing custom SQL queries directly in the source configuration. These custom SQL sources behave like any other source in Validio, while also expanding the scope of your data monitoring with support for dimension mapping and better root cause analysis. For more information, see About Custom SQL Sources.

We also added a new template function for configuring a SQL source table. This template function is required when you use Custom SQL to configure a SQL validator on your SQL source. For more information, see Custom SQL Template Functions.

5.1.0

Validio 5.1.0 was released on 18 June 2025.

Deprecations

Deprecated the utilization field on CatalogAssetStats in the API (UI-5081)

Fixed Issues

Fixed issues loading Google Cloud billing projects in update dialog (UI-5068)
Fixed rendering of null values in filter preview (UI-5076)
Fixed performance issue when selecting 1000+ tags at once (UI-5064)
Fixed issue when using search in multiple filter menus (UI-5042)
Fixed issue where start-button was not properly disabled when there are no validators (UI-5044)
Fixed issue with latest poll info not always visible (UI-5066)
Extended timeout for filter and segmentation previews (UI-5049)
Fixed an issue to properly use the billing project ID for BigQuery jobs (VR-4554)
Fixed issues with reference filters on categorical distribution validators (VR-4505)

Enhancements

Added support for custom SQL sources (UI-4824)
Added new version of Dynamic Threshold algorithm (UI-4878 UI-4986)
Added support for duplicating windows and filters (UI-5018, UI-4912)
Added segment information (current segment count) on segmentations (UI-5006)
Added segment information for validators using Global windows (UI-5038)
Improved performance on catalog listing and related filters (UI-5058, UI-5075)
Improved rendering performance in filter menus (UI-4979 UI-49)
Improved autocomplete and search in Linage anchor dialog (UI-4913 UI-4967)
Improved handling of incident groups connected to deleted segments (UI-5021)