Creating alerts for Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure has provided a built-in functionality to set up alerts for monitoring Azure resources efficiently. Alerts can be set up for an individual Azure resource separately, and in this section, we are going to learn how to set up alerts for Azure Synapse Analytics.

To create an alert, we need to select the target resource we need to monitor, which is called the scope. After that, we need to define conditions for the alert, define the actions that will be invoked when the alert rule triggers, and finally provide details on the alert rule.

Perform the following steps to configure an alert rule for your Synapse workspace:

1. Go to your Synapse workspace in the Azure portal.
2. Click on the Alerts link of the Overview blade of your Synapse workspace.
3. Click on +New alert rule to configure a new alert rule:
   

   Figure 13.26 – Creating a new alert rule for Azure Synapse Analytics

4. Now we need to establish the scope for the alert...