diff --git a/_monitoring-plugins/ad/api.md b/_monitoring-plugins/ad/api.md
index 9abf4b0f..1abd8eb8 100644
--- a/_monitoring-plugins/ad/api.md
+++ b/_monitoring-plugins/ad/api.md
@@ -332,6 +332,97 @@ Options | Description | Type | Required
 
 ---
 
+## Validate detector
+Introduced 1.2
+{: .label .label-purple }
+
+Returns whether the detector configuration has any issues that might prevent OpenSearch from creating the detector.
+
+You can use the validate API to identify issues in your model configuration before creating the detector.
+
+The request body consists of the detector configuration and follows the same format as the request body of the create detector API:
+
+#### Request
+
+```json
+POST _plugins/_anomaly_detection/detectors/_validate
+POST _plugins/_anomaly_detection/detectors/_validate/detector
+{
+  "name": "test-detector",
+  "description": "Test detector",
+  "time_field": "timestamp",
+  "indices": [
+    "server_log*"
+  ],
+  "feature_attributes": [
+    {
+      "feature_name": "test",
+      "feature_enabled": true,
+      "aggregation_query": {
+        "test": {
+          "sum": {
+            "field": "value"
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "filter_query": {
+    "bool": {
+      "filter": [
+        {
+          "range": {
+            "value": {
+              "gt": 1
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      ],
+      "adjust_pure_negative": true,
+      "boost": 1
+    }
+  },
+  "detection_interval": {
+    "period": {
+      "interval": 1,
+      "unit": "Minutes"
+    }
+  },
+  "window_delay": {
+    "period": {
+      "interval": 1,
+      "unit": "Minutes"
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+If the validate API doesn’t find any issue in the detector configuration, it returns an empty response:
+
+#### Sample response
+
+```json
+{}
+```
+
+If the validate API finds an issue, it returns a message explaining what's wrong with the configuration. In this example, the feature query is aggregating over a field that doesn’t exist in the data source:
+
+#### Sample response
+
+```json
+{
+  "detector": {
+    "feature_attributes": {
+      "message": "Feature has invalid query returning empty aggregated data: average_total_rev",
+      "sub_issues": {
+        "average_total_rev": "Feature has invalid query returning empty aggregated data"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+---
+
 ## Get detector
 Introduced 1.0
 {: .label .label-purple }
diff --git a/_monitoring-plugins/ad/index.md b/_monitoring-plugins/ad/index.md
index 88161545..afc6d0e7 100644
--- a/_monitoring-plugins/ad/index.md
+++ b/_monitoring-plugins/ad/index.md
@@ -110,7 +110,12 @@ We recommend experimenting with historical analysis with different feature sets
 
 ## Step 4: Review and create
 
-Review your model configuration and select **Create detector**.
+Review your detector settings and model configurations to make sure that they're valid and then proceed to select **Create detector**.
+
+![Anomaly detection results]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/images/review_ad.png)
+
+If you see any validation errors, edit the settings to fix the errors and then return back to this page.
+{: .note }
 
 ## Step 5: Observe the results
 
diff --git a/_security-plugin/access-control/permissions.md b/_security-plugin/access-control/permissions.md
index 19858bb5..869c2a15 100644
--- a/_security-plugin/access-control/permissions.md
+++ b/_security-plugin/access-control/permissions.md
@@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ These permissions are for the cluster and can't be applied granularly. For examp
 - cluster:admin/opendistro/ad/detector/search
 - cluster:admin/opendistro/ad/detector/stats
 - cluster:admin/opendistro/ad/detector/write
+- cluster:admin/opendistro/ad/detector/validate
 - cluster:admin/opendistro/ad/detectors/get
 - cluster:admin/opendistro/ad/result/search
+- cluster:admin/opendistro/ad/result/topAnomalies
 - cluster:admin/opendistro/ad/tasks/search
 - cluster:admin/opendistro/alerting/alerts/ack (acknowledge)
 - cluster:admin/opendistro/alerting/alerts/get
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