# Feedback

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## [About the Feedback category](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/about-the-feedback-category/1185)

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**Author:** [@mollzmp](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/mollzmp)\
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This is a place to discuss ideas or feedback on anything GX related. This includes the GX product, documentation, community spaces, and anything else under the GX umbrella.

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## [Analytics enabled by default configuration (GX core)](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/analytics-enabled-by-default-configuration-gx-core/2124)

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**Author:** [@bluink](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/bluink)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/analytics-enabled-by-default-configuration-gx-core/2124 "2025-03-07T13:02:42Z")

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I would like to bring to the GX team’s attention a critical analysis of the tracking of GX core analytics events. I would like this feedback to provide some food for thought on how to improve GX. The documentation only …

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## [No documentation for Conditional Expectation with spark condition parser](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/no-documentation-for-conditional-expectation-with-spark-condition-parser/1065)

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**Author:** [@abhim3152](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/abhim3152)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/no-documentation-for-conditional-expectation-with-spark-condition-parser/1065 "2024-08-26T22:25:33Z")

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There is no significant documentation on how the condition parser and row condition works with spark. Could find only Pandas related information in the docs. It would be really helpful there is a brief documentation on h…

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## [Data Assistants - plotting metrics not working](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/data-assistants-plotting-metrics-not-working/1503)

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**Author:** [@devan.domer](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/devan.domer)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2024, 10:24pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/data-assistants-plotting-metrics-not-working/1503 "2024-08-26T22:24:18Z")

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I’ve been trying to use .plot\_metrics() and .plot\_expectations\_and\_metrics() on my data assistant result and keep getting this error call: SchemaValidationError: Config has no parameter named ‘height’. Is this something …

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## [Modern Production stack for Great Expectations](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/modern-production-stack-for-great-expectations/1456)

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**Author:** [@Aleksei](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/Aleksei)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 4, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/modern-production-stack-for-great-expectations/1456 "2024-01-04T23:13:03Z")

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Hello, community. I want to raise the topic of a modern stack for GX in production As I see for production using: A fluent data source is better than a block config data source Checkpoint is better than a validator C…

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## [Parallel Execution of Great Expectation Validations](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/parallel-execution-of-great-expectation-validations/1243)

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**Author:** [@madhav](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/madhav)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 5, 2023, 5:07am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/parallel-execution-of-great-expectation-validations/1243 "2023-06-05T05:07:26Z")

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Do we have any documentation which talks about how to handle context, data source, data asset and validations in parallel thread execution in databricks ?

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## [How to check that a column \*does not\* exist?](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-check-that-a-column-does-not-exist/1194)

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**Author:** [@dr\_zaszus](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/dr_zaszus)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 28, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-check-that-a-column-does-not-exist/1194 "2023-03-28T14:07:50Z")

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Is there any way to check that a specific column is not present in the table? I haven’t been able to find one in the standard ones. P.S. Sorry if this does not match “Feedback”. I was unable to create a post in the “Sup…

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## [GE in AWS Lambda](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/ge-in-aws-lambda/458)

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**Author:** [@mezaf](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/mezaf)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 29, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/ge-in-aws-lambda/458 "2022-03-29T20:32:30Z")

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My intention with this discussion is to bring up the possibility to have a slim version of GE that can be used within a lambda function. This is different than putting it into an EC2 instance to work, because I’m looking…

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## [Support for Metrics Stores](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/support-for-metrics-stores/908)

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**Author:** [@bhcastleton](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/bhcastleton)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 31, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/support-for-metrics-stores/908 "2022-01-31T11:36:21Z")

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Metric Stores The current iteration of metrics stores was built with community contribution. It was a great idea and popular functionality. However, sustaining the architecture of the current iteration is not ideal with…

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## [How does Great Expectations fit into your data stack?](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-does-great-expectations-fit-into-your-data-stack/23)

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**Author:** [@kyle](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/kyle)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 23, 2022, 4:36am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-does-great-expectations-fit-into-your-data-stack/23 "2022-01-23T04:36:06Z")

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The Great Expectations community has proven to be a resourceful one that we’ve learned so much from. We would love to know where and how you integrate Great Expectations into your data pipeline? Where were the points o…

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## [How to configure an EMR Spark Datasource](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-configure-an-emr-spark-datasource/172)

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**Author:** [@kyle](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/kyle)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [December 10, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-configure-an-emr-spark-datasource/172 "2021-12-10T00:51:37Z")

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This article is for comments to: How to instantiate a Data Context on an EMR Spark cluster — great\_expectations documentation Please comment +1 if this How to is important to you.

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## [Are broken links with TODOs on the current documentation site reflecting work in progress or a gap](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/are-broken-links-with-todos-on-the-current-documentation-site-reflecting-work-in-progress-or-a-gap/903)

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**Author:** [@bhills](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/bhills)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/are-broken-links-with-todos-on-the-current-documentation-site-reflecting-work-in-progress-or-a-gap/903 "2021-10-14T18:08:50Z")

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I’m interested in subjects referenced in the Additional Notes Section on the Connecting to your data filesystem documentation page. The links in this section don’t resolve. Is this intentional work in progress or an i…

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## [How to validate data without a Checkpoint](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-validate-data-without-a-checkpoint/229)

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**Author:** [@kyle](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/kyle)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 28, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-validate-data-without-a-checkpoint/229 "2021-09-28T08:24:01Z")

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This article is for comments to: How to validate data without a Checkpoint — great\_expectations documentation Please comment +1 if this How to is important to you.

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## [Expect\_column\_pair\_values\_a\_to\_be\_greater\_than\_b.py not working](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/expect-column-pair-values-a-to-be-greater-than-b-py-not-working/832)

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**Author:** [@ashintr](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/ashintr)\
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**Last updated:** [July 19, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/expect-column-pair-values-a-to-be-greater-than-b-py-not-working/832 "2021-07-19T18:18:11Z")

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great\_expectations/expect\_column\_pair\_values\_a\_to\_be\_greater\_than\_b.py at develop · great-expectations/great\_expectations · GitHub seems to be missing the ‘\_validate’ method. The other column pair expectations have the …

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## [Orchestration (in the sense.... Order of execution) of expectations in an expectations suite](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/orchestration-in-the-sense-order-of-execution-of-expectations-in-an-expectations-suite/771)

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**Author:** [@patechoc](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/patechoc)\
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**Last updated:** [June 14, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/orchestration-in-the-sense-order-of-execution-of-expectations-in-an-expectations-suite/771 "2021-06-14T15:27:53Z")

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Hi, I know Great Expectations has no intent to replace tools like Dagster, AirFlow, … but as a use case, we would be interested in running the expectations of an expectations suite in a given order. That way we could s…

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## [Reusing already existing checks](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/reusing-already-existing-checks/644)

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**Author:** [@Vasilije](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/Vasilije)\
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**Last updated:** [March 8, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/reusing-already-existing-checks/644 "2021-03-08T03:07:05Z")

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Does GE have some possibility of reusing already executed checks? We are using Big Query and it might be expensive to scan tables on each check. The idea here would be either to store the query output somewhere or creat…

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## [How to store checkpoints?](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-store-checkpoints/537)

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**Author:** [@Patrick](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/Patrick)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 3, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/how-to-store-checkpoints/537 "2020-12-03T21:23:46Z")

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Hi, Checkpoints have been a great way to configure and document in code which expectation suite is running on which batch of data. I don’t find in the documentation a way to specify the type of storage for checkpoints. …

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## [Creating Custom Expectations from SQL queries](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/creating-custom-expectations-from-sql-queries/463)

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**Author:** [@U.T](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/U.T)\
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**Last updated:** [October 21, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/creating-custom-expectations-from-sql-queries/463 "2020-10-21T12:18:16Z")

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Sql is still the predominate skill set among data people. In addition, there’s a whole community of data people that don’t use and/or don’t need to use any other programming language besides sql. So the idea keeps resurf…

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## [Data Quality Dimensions/Metrics](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/data-quality-dimensions-metrics/409)

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**Author:** [@Mosam](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/Mosam)\
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**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/data-quality-dimensions-metrics/409 "2020-09-23T21:15:15Z")

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Hi Team/ @kyle/@abegong Great work on Great Expectations! We wished to know if there is a feature available/already in the roadmap for tagging the great expectations test suites with respective data quality dimensions …

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## [GE + DBT User Experiences](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/ge-dbt-user-experiences/110)

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**Author:** [@kyle](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/kyle)\
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**Last updated:** [May 6, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/ge-dbt-user-experiences/110 "2020-05-06T20:50:27Z")

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Over the past few months I’ve been reaching out to users asking about their experience using Great Expectations. I’ve gathered so much invaluable feedback and have really enjoyed chatting with you all! Something that …

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## [Slack invite on greatexpectations.io not working?](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/slack-invite-on-greatexpectations-io-not-working/38)

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**Author:** [@jseery](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/u/jseery)\
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**Last updated:** [January 3, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.greatexpectations.io/t/slack-invite-on-greatexpectations-io-not-working/38 "2020-01-03T09:14:46Z")

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Hi there, I just tried to use the “Join us on Slack” link, and it doesn’t appear to be working. I click the link, and it re-opens the same page with a ?redirect=… added to the URL instead of taking me to a page where I …