Activate or Pause Property Calculations

Overview

Every property in Deepchecks is automatically calculated whenever new data is uploaded. While this is ideal for most properties, there are situations where you may want to temporarily stop a property from running automatically. For example, if you're still refining its guidelines, it's only needed occasionally, or you want to reduce costs.

Pausing a property skips it during automatic calculation on newly uploaded data, while still letting you run it on-demand for any interaction. This gives you full control over when and where each property is evaluated.

Active vs. Paused

	Active (default)	Paused
Automatic calculation	Calculated on every new interaction	Skipped
On-demand calculation	Available	Available
Recalculation	Available	Available
Existing scores	Preserved	Preserved

When a property is paused, any new interactions uploaded will simply not have a score for that property. Previously calculated scores remain unchanged.

How to Pause a Property

Go to Properties in the sidebar
Find the property you want to pause
Click the toggle icon in the property's action buttons
The toggle switches to the off state, indicating the property is now paused

You can also filter the properties list by status using the Status filter to see all paused or active properties at a glance.

How to Reactivate a Property

Go to Properties in the sidebar
Find the paused property (use the Status filter if needed)
Click the toggle icon to switch it back on

Running a Paused Property On-Demand

Even while a property is paused, you can still calculate it whenever you need to:

Recalculate: Use the Recalculate dialog from the Properties page to run the property on a specific version, environment, and time range. This works the same way for both active and paused properties.
Select Interactions: Select any number of interactions on the Interactions screen (for example after filtering the screen), click the "Calculate" icon, choose any property and calculate it ad-hoc on those interactions.

This makes pausing ideal for properties you only need to run occasionally or on specific subsets of data.

Things to Keep In Mind

Pausing applies to both interaction-level and session-level properties.
Pausing a property does not delete any existing scores. All historical data is preserved.
When new data is uploaded for a paused property, the interaction will show no score for that property. You can always recalculate later to fill in the gaps.
Pausing and activating a property requires relevant permissions.