diff --git a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/components/ColumnOption.tsx b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/components/ColumnOption.tsx
index 2addfa23119f5..db449b3450ef6 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/components/ColumnOption.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/components/ColumnOption.tsx
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ export function ColumnOption({
 }: ColumnOptionProps) {
   const { expression, column_name, type_generic } = column;
   const hasExpression = expression && expression !== column_name;
-  const warningMarkdown = column.warning_markdown || column.warning_text;
+  const warningMarkdown =
+    column.warning_markdown || column.warning_text || column.error_text;
   const type = hasExpression ? 'expression' : type_generic;
   const [tooltipText, setTooltipText] = useState<ReactNode>(column.column_name);
   const [columnTypeTooltipText, setcolumnTypeTooltipText] = useState<ReactNode>(
@@ -103,6 +104,10 @@ export function ColumnOption({
           tooltip={<SafeMarkdown source={warningMarkdown} />}
           label={`warn-${column.column_name}`}
           iconsStyle={{ marginLeft: 0 }}
+          {...(column.error_text && {
+            className: 'text-danger',
+            icon: 'exclamation-circle',
+          })}
         />
       )}
     </StyleOverrides>
diff --git a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/components/MetricOption.tsx b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/components/MetricOption.tsx
index b558a0987ab0c..c424cde518e26 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/components/MetricOption.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-chart-controls/src/components/MetricOption.tsx
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ export function MetricOption({
     </span>
   );
 
-  const warningMarkdown = metric.warning_markdown || metric.warning_text;
+  const warningMarkdown =
+    metric.warning_markdown || metric.warning_text || metric.error_text;
 
   const [tooltipText, setTooltipText] = useState<ReactNode>(metric.metric_name);
 
@@ -116,6 +117,10 @@ export function MetricOption({
           tooltip={<SafeMarkdown source={warningMarkdown} />}
           label={`warn-${metric.metric_name}`}
           iconsStyle={{ marginLeft: 0 }}
+          {...(metric.error_text && {
+            className: 'text-danger',
+            icon: 'exclamation-circle',
+          })}
         />
       )}
     </FlexRowContainer>
diff --git a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/query/types/Metric.ts b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/query/types/Metric.ts
index ac6523bedb35d..227ca6e71d562 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/query/types/Metric.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/packages/superset-ui-core/src/query/types/Metric.ts
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ export interface Metric {
   verbose_name?: string;
   warning_markdown?: Maybe<string>;
   warning_text?: Maybe<string>;
+  error_text?: string;
 }
 
 export function isSavedMetric(metric: any): metric is SavedMetric {
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/DndColumnSelect.tsx b/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/DndColumnSelect.tsx
index 929dd5ef58aba..faceb68336e1f 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/DndColumnSelect.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/DndColumnSelect.tsx
@@ -109,9 +109,7 @@ function DndColumnSelect(props: DndColumnSelectProps) {
           isAdhocColumn(column) && column.datasourceWarning
             ? t('This column might be incompatible with current dataset')
             : undefined;
-        const withCaret =
-          isAdhocColumn(column) ||
-          !(column.warning_markdown || column.warning_text);
+        const withCaret = isAdhocColumn(column) || !column.error_text;
 
         return (
           <ColumnSelectPopoverTrigger
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/DndMetricSelect.tsx b/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/DndMetricSelect.tsx
index 2db2ef9785fde..c6586bb97e534 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/DndMetricSelect.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/DndMetricSelect.tsx
@@ -76,9 +76,7 @@ const coerceMetrics = (
     ) {
       return {
         metric_name: metric,
-        warning_text: t(
-          'This metric might be incompatible with current dataset',
-        ),
+        error_text: t('This metric might be incompatible with current dataset'),
       };
     }
     if (!isDictionaryForAdhocMetric(metric)) {
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/utils/optionSelector.ts b/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/utils/optionSelector.ts
index 89fd261fba227..70e22b31ed20b 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/utils/optionSelector.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/DndColumnSelectControl/utils/optionSelector.ts
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export class OptionSelector {
         return {
           type_generic: 'UNKNOWN',
           column_name: value,
-          warning_text: t(
+          error_text: t(
             'This column might be incompatible with current dataset',
           ),
         };
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/MetricControl/AdhocMetricOption.jsx b/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/MetricControl/AdhocMetricOption.jsx
index 093f699f7e83f..7ca0f7065fb84 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/MetricControl/AdhocMetricOption.jsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/explore/components/controls/MetricControl/AdhocMetricOption.jsx
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ class AdhocMetricOption extends PureComponent {
       multi,
       datasourceWarningMessage,
     } = this.props;
-    const warningMarkdown =
-      savedMetric.warning_markdown || savedMetric.warning_text;
+    const withCaret = !savedMetric.error_text;
 
     return (
       <AdhocMetricPopoverTrigger
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ class AdhocMetricOption extends PureComponent {
           onDropLabel={onDropLabel}
           index={index}
           type={type ?? DndItemType.AdhocMetricOption}
-          withCaret={!warningMarkdown}
+          withCaret={withCaret}
           isFunction
           multi={multi}
           datasourceWarningMessage={datasourceWarningMessage}