Configuring alerts for your Data Factory runs

When a failure in data processing happens, we have to react as fast as possible to avoid impacting downstream processes. Data Factory gives us tools to automate monitoring by setting up alerts to inform the engineers when there is a problem. We already introduced a custom email alert in the Branching and chaining recipe in Chapter 2, Orchestration and Control Flow. It sent a notification if that particular pipeline failed. In this chapter, we shall create an alert that will notify on-call engineers via email or a phone call whenever any of the pipelines in our data factory have a problem.

Getting ready

In order to follow this recipe and configure the alerts, we first need to register with the Insights resource provider:

1. In the Azure portal, go to your subscription, and from the menu on the left, select Resource providers.
2. Use the Filter by name… text field to search for the microsoft.insights resource provider.
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