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Azure Data Factory Cookbook

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Foshin, Roman Storchak, Xenia Ireton
Book Image

Azure Data Factory Cookbook

By: Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Foshin, Roman Storchak, Xenia Ireton

Overview of this book

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a modern data integration tool available on Microsoft Azure. This Azure Data Factory Cookbook helps you get up and running by showing you how to create and execute your first job in ADF. You’ll learn how to branch and chain activities, create custom activities, and schedule pipelines. This book will help you to discover the benefits of cloud data warehousing, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage, which are frequently used for big data analytics. With practical recipes, you’ll learn how to actively engage with analytical tools from Azure Data Services and leverage your on-premise infrastructure with cloud-native tools to get relevant business insights. As you advance, you’ll be able to integrate the most commonly used Azure Services into ADF and understand how Azure services can be useful in designing ETL pipelines. The book will take you through the common errors that you may encounter while working with ADF and show you how to use the Azure portal to monitor pipelines. You’ll also understand error messages and resolve problems in connectors and data flows with the debugging capabilities of ADF. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use ADF as the main ETL and orchestration tool for your data warehouse or data platform projects.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 10: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Data Pipelines

Azure Data Factory is an integration tool that helps engineers transfer data between multiple data stores, both within and outside of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. Data integration is rarely straightforward. In this chapter, we will introduce tools to help you manage and monitor your Data Factory pipelines. You will learn where and how to find more information about what went wrong when a pipeline failed, how to debug a failed run, how to set up alerts that notify you when there is a problem, and how to identify problems with your integration runtimes.

The following is a list of the recipes in this chapter:

  • Monitoring pipeline runs and integration runtimes
  • Investigating failures – running pipelines in debug mode
  • Rerunning activities
  • Configuring alerts for your Data Factory runs