Overview

Sifflet Matches Regex Monitor Template is a field-level format validation monitor. It accepts string fields and fails if the monitored field contains data that do not fulfill the regular expression (regex) conditions provided.

As Code

Monitor Kind: FieldFormat
All the format monitors are grouped under the FieldFormat Monitor kind.

format.kind: Regex
A format kind needs to be set to Regex to use the regular expression mode of the FieldFormat as code monitor.

regex:
The regular expression (regex) pattern must be provided in the regex parameter for matching.

field: the field that the monitor should check the format of

parameters:
  kind: FieldFormat
  field: CITY
  format:
    kind: Regex
    regex: "\\b(\\(\\d{3}\\)\\s?|\\d{3}[-\\.\\s]?)\\d{3}[-\\.\\s]?\\d{4}\\b"

Filtering and grouping

Field format Monitors allow for filtering and grouping parameters.

parameters:
  kind: FieldFormat
  field: CITY
  format:
    kind: Regex
    regex: "\\b(\\(\\d{3}\\)\\s?|\\d{3}[-\\.\\s]?)\\d{3}[-\\.\\s]?\\d{4}\\b"
  whereStatement: NOT invalid
  groupBy:
    field: REGION

Time Window (Beta)

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Beta

Field format Monitors now allow time window parameters.

Threshold Settings (Beta)

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Field format Monitors now allow threshold configuration.