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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)

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.
  3. ...