Implementing a Pipeline Alert Strategy

Implementing a pipeline alert strategy in Azure is a proactive approach to detect and address issues, ensuring seamless data flow and minimizing disruptions. Key considerations include knowing the challenges pipelines may face, such as data skew or resource bottlenecks, and implementing alerts to notify specific conditions such as data spillage, excessive resource utilization, or pipeline failures. You can achieve this by leveraging Azure services such as Azure Monitor, ADF, or Azure Synapse Pipelines to set up alerts based on predefined thresholds or custom conditions. Alert types encompass pipeline failures due to connectivity issues or incorrect configurations, monitoring resource consumption to prevent exceedance, identifying data spillage or skew, and tracking pipeline execution time or data delivery delays.

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This section primarily focuses on the Implement a pipeline alert strategy concept of the DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft...