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What’s new in GX Cloud: July 2024

Directly connect to your data, schedule validation runs, and more Expectations!

Erin Kapp
August 05, 2024
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Directly connect to your data

By popular demand: getting started in GX Cloud is now lightning-fast with direct connection to your data sources! The GX Agent is no longer required.

GX Cloud direct data source connection

Click here to read more about directly connecting to your data in GX Cloud.

Schedule your data validations

Schedule your Expectations to run automatically directly in-app! Ongoing data validation in GX Cloud is now super convenient and more accessible to nontechnical users.

Scheduling in GX Cloud

Click here to read the docs on scheduling in GX Cloud.

Even more new Expectations

The number of Expectations has gotten an even bigger boost—to 44! 

GX Cloud’s Expectation coverage now includes:

  • Cardinality

  • Data integrity

  • Distribution

  • Missingness

  • Numerical data

  • Pattern matching

  • Schema

  • Sets

  • Volume

GX Cloud Expectations

Click here for a full list of GX Cloud’s Expectations!

Improved Data Source creation experience

The Data Source creation process has gotten an upgrade!

We’ve brushed up our error messages to be more informative, and made some tweaks so that there are fewer chances for an invalid configuration to slip through and cause you problems later.


Interested in trying out GX Cloud for yourself? It's now available in public preview: sign up here, free!

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