Hi all, I have a few questions about email notific...
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Hi all, I have a few questions about email notifications. Firstly, to my knowledge we never set these up but I received two emails about stat sig results after updating to the latest release of GB. Other watchers of the experiment didn’t receive them. Where can we edit the settings around these emails? Second, I received an email saying one of my goal metrics reached significance (see first screenshot), but when I checked the dashboard, it had different results (second screenshot). We only collect data once every morning, so even if the dashboard was updated after the email was sent, there would have been no new data. Any ideas why the email differs from the dashboard?
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f
I'm forwarding the issue to our team
w
Thanks!
h
Hey Julianna. I wonder if there's a bug where this is firing when there is an analysis run with dimensional breakdowns.
Is that a possibility (to at least explain why the p-value seems not to match the dashboard)?
You can kind of check if the timestamp of the email doesn't match the main dashboard update time. In any case, we're landing a fix now to prevent ad-hoc dimension analyses from sending these kinds of alerts. We'll investigate why you started getting emails all of a sudden.
w
Hi thanks for the help! That must have been it - there is one level of one dimension that’s unadjusted p-value matches the one from the email. But the adjusted p-value is much higher than .05, but I guess that’s not what the email is based on. Anyways, yeah we would prefer not to get emails for the dimensional results
Is there a place I’m not seeing to turn off the emails?
h
Yes, we are landing a fix to turn this off now, but getting the fix would require upgrading when it lands.
Anyways, yeah we would prefer not to get emails for the dimensional results
Is there a place I’m not seeing to turn off the emails?
Let me check quickly. I have to head out soon.
w
Thanks!
h
There isn't a way to turn them off. But we just landed another change that should mean that watchers only get emails when a scheduled update for an experiment runs, not when you click the update results button manually. This has been the behavior for a long time. We want to add more customization later, but if you could upgrade and let us know how things are looking that would be helpful.
w
Hmm no one on our team has received any email before yesterday - should we have?
h
Only if you had scheduled updates. Manual updates (clicking "refresh" in the UI) never triggered emails, until the bug you reported to us (which we now have resolved).
w
Oh interesting. We’ve had scheduled updates on for months (possibly a year?) and never received an email
h
Hmm, that flow is old and that's why we're working on it now.
w
where can i find the release with the bug fix?
h
The
latest
release will have it. Or any docker image (if you're using Docker to upgrade) from Friday or later.
w
ok thanks
also unrelated to the email notifications, we’re also now seeing that when a dimension is applied to experiment results, the unadjusted p-value is shown. you can still hover over to see both the adjusted and unadjusted but there seems to have been a change (i think recently?) and now if you aren’t hovering, the unadjusted is shown instead of adjusted. is this intended?
h
No I don't think that's intended. I'll take a look, sorry about that.
w
thanks!
h
That's a bug and a fix is underway. I'll let you know when it is available in
latest
the bug was just as you said, on dimension results we showed the unadjusted p-value in the p-value column instead of the adjusted p-value.
w
thanks so much!
h
The fix is live in the
latest
release
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w
hi @helpful-application-7107 we’re trying to update growthbook to get the bug fix but i’m not seeing any newer releases than 3.2.0: https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook/releases. did it come out with a version number? we’d like to update to specific version tags instead of the
latest
tag
@helpful-application-7107 just checking in here to see if you could help me find the release with the bug fix?
h
Oh, sorry. It did not come out with a version number.
We have 3.3 coming which will include this fix, but it won't be until November.
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