Validation panel

The Validations Summary Panel is where you catch problems before they reach a release: broken references, JSON errors, and resources that violate a guardrail policy. Validation checks each resource's JSON configuration and references for correctness and compliance.

The panel revalidates every 5 minutes, and you can trigger a cycle yourself with Run Validation on the validations page.

Types of validation

• Non-existent resource reference: a resource references another that does not exist in the blueprint.
• Disabled resource reference: a resource references another that exists but is disabled.
• Invalid reference expression: a reference expression is malformed, for example a service pointing at a database by the wrong path.
• JSON syntax error: a resource's JSON is invalid.
• GuardRails compliance issue: a resource violates a defined guardrail policy.

For each type with an example, see Types of validations.

Using the panel

1. Go to Environment > Releases and open Validations.
2. Any validation errors in your resource definitions appear here, with the error and its location.
3. Click Run Validation to re-evaluate.

You can also run a check from the command line before releasing:

raptor plan -p PROJECT -e ENVIRONMENT --skip-server-plan

It looks for references pointing at resources that are missing, resources that depend on each other in a loop, and resources not connected to something they need. It prints what it finds and releases nothing.