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Using Cake for Great Expectations

Great Expectations is an open-source data quality framework that lets you define, test, and monitor expectations about your data. On Cake, Great Expectations is fully operationalized so you can validate data at every stage without bolting on manual checks.
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How it works

Enforce data quality gates across your pipelines with Great Expectations on Cake

Cake automates the deployment, scheduling, and evaluation of data quality checks—helping you catch schema issues and anomalies before they cause failures.

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Declarative data validation

Define expectations as code and run them across datasets, pipelines, or model inputs as part of your CI/CD flow.

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Integrated reporting and alerting

Surface failed validations, profile changes, and unexpected values using Cake’s observability stack and native integrations.

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Shift-left data governance

Run Great Expectations early in your data lifecycle to enforce standards and prevent downstream issues from reaching production.

Frequently asked questions about Cake and Great Expectations

What is Great Expectations?
Great Expectations is an open-source tool for validating, profiling, and documenting data quality in pipelines.
How does Cake support Great Expectations?
Cake runs Great Expectations as part of your infrastructure pipelines—automating execution, reporting, and integration with your data stack.
Where can I run data validations with Cake?
Anywhere—Cake supports validations during ingestion, transformation, model training, or pre-deployment checks.
Can Great Expectations block bad data from reaching production?
Yes. Cake lets you configure gates in CI/CD that stop deployments or model runs if expectations fail.
Is Great Expectations only for tabular data?
No. While optimized for tabular formats, it can also validate JSON, logs, or other structured data types using custom expectations.
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