How to run a Checkpoint in terminal

This guide will help you run a Checkpoint in a terminal.

Prerequisites: This how-to guide assumes you have already:

• Set up a working deployment of Great Expectations

• Created a Checkpoint

Steps

1. Checkpoints can be run like applications from the command line by running:

great_expectations checkpoint run my_checkpoint
Validation Failed!

2. Next, observe the output which will tell you if all validations passed or failed.

Additional notes

This command will return posix status codes and print messages as follows:

Situation	Return code	Message
all validations passed	0	Validation Succeeded!
one or more validation failed	1	Validation Failed!