Hi <!channel> announcement An exciting new version of Elementary is out (0.6.3, dbt package 0.6.6)🎉 This release includes many usability improvements across UI, alerts and tests, as well as new features! 🆕 elementary Slack alerts V2 elementary • Elementary now supports customizing alerts, so you could notify data producers and consumers 👨‍🔧 ◦ Instead of sending detailed technical alerts, you can select fields. Learn more here how to configure it. • Email owners will be translated to Slack handles in the alerts. Thanks @Josh Elston-Green for contributing. • Alerts also underwent layout improvements 🎨 elementary New data tests elementary • Advanced schema tests, useful for source monitoring and enforcing data contracts: ◦

schema_changes_from_baseline

- Define a schema in your

models/<properties.yml>

and ensure its validity. ◦

json_schema

- Validate the schema of JSON columns 😱 ◦ To ease configuration and implementation - both tests include operations to auto-generate the schema. • New and improved table anomalies tests, including

where_expression

📊 ◦

volume_anomalies

- Monitor your row count over time. ◦

freshness_anomalies

- Monitor the freshness of you data over time. elementary Report UI elementary • Filter your report by Tags & Owners sidebars #️⃣ 🤵 • dbt-expectations integration in the UI, including test descriptions. • Custom test descriptions were added to the UI. elementary Monitor job results elementary • Added job-related columns to

dbt_invocations

and created

job_run_results

table. ◦ Keep track of your dbt jobs in dbt Cloud, GitHub Actions, Airflow, etc. ◦ The new columns can be viewed here. elementary Sensitive data / PII elementary • Have sensitive data that contains PII? ◦ Use the new flag (

--disable-samples

) to disable sampling of data in the report and alerts 🤫 ◦ This was requested by @Christopher Ekfeldt, @Diederik Lemkes, @Jason and @Rodrigo Loredo, we hope you find it useful 🙏 elementary Additional changes elementary • Added support for

dbt-utils 1.0.0

- Thanks @pei0804 for contributing. • Elementary's tables are not full-refreshed by default - This can be changed using the

elementary_full_refresh

var. • The report doesn't auto-open when using WSL - Thanks @Ivan Toriya for contributing. If you have any questions or requests, please let us know in #C02CTC89LAX or contact any of the Elementary team members. Please share with us what you'd like to see next in #C03LPJ5EYU9. Thanks!