Azure Data Factory how to deploy Alerts & Metrics to other environments with DevOps - continuous-integration

Question

We have a Azure datafactory fully integrated with DevOps. Every change I make to the datafactory is deployed to all environments (OTAP), except alerts & metrics. I cannot find anything on how to deploy these to the other environments. Is this possible at all?

Answer 1

Is this possible at all?'
Quick answer is NO so far. I contacted Microsoft ADF team and got below response:
Azure Data Factory utilizes Azure Resource Manager templates to store
the configuration of your various ADF entities. Entities on Alerts &
Metrics does not get exported in the ARM template, so Alerts & Metrics
won’t be integrated using DevOps.
I did 2 verifications:
1.Check ARM template supported entities in ADF, Alerts & Metrics doesn't exist.
2.Try to export ARM template in the ADF UI but still no Alerts & Metrics
Really understand you would like to integrate all elements in Data Factory including Alerts & Metrics with DevOps. I suggest you submitting feedback here to push improvements of ADF, any voice is welcome.

Answer 2

There is a way to work around this one.
ADF alert is a "Microsoft.Insights/metricalerts" resource that you can deploy using ARM deployment operation from Azure Devops.
You can try to create an alert in ADF and then go to Portal, search for: Monitor > Alert > Alert Rule, and find the Alert you created in ADF. In my case there is an Alert called Test
Here is the ARM template exported from the alert
{
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"metricalerts_Alert_name": {
"defaultValue": "Alert",
"type": "String"
},
"factories_test_externalid": {
"defaultValue": "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/yyyyy/providers/Microsoft.DataFactory/factories/test",
"type": "String"
},
"actionGroups_actiongroup1_externalid": {
"defaultValue": "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/yyyyy/providers/microsoft.insights/actionGroups/actiongroup1",
"type": "String"
}
},
"variables": {},
"resources": [
{
"type": "Microsoft.Insights/metricalerts",
"apiVersion": "2018-03-01",
"name": "[parameters('metricalerts_Alert_name')]",
"location": "global",
"tags": {
"CreatedTimeUtc": "2022-09-13T05:28:46.0663823Z"
},
"properties": {
"severity": 0,
"enabled": true,
"scopes": [
"[parameters('factories_test_externalid')]"
],
"evaluationFrequency": "PT1M",
"windowSize": "PT15M",
"criteria": {
"allOf": [
{
"threshold": 1,
"name": "PipelineFailedRuns",
"metricNamespace": "Microsoft.DataFactory/factories",
"metricName": "PipelineFailedRuns",
"dimensions": [
{
"name": "Name",
"operator": "Include",
"values": [
"pipeline2"
]
},
{
"name": "FailureType",
"operator": "Include",
"values": [
"UserError",
"SystemError",
"BadGateway"
]
}
],
"operator": "GreaterThanOrEqual",
"timeAggregation": "Total",
"criterionType": "StaticThresholdCriterion"
}
],
"odata.type": "Microsoft.Azure.Monitor.SingleResourceMultipleMetricCriteria"
},
"actions": [
{
"actionGroupId": "[parameters('actionGroups_actiongroup1_externalid')]",
"webHookProperties": {}
}
]
}
}
]
}
For the actionGroups you can refer to
{
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"groupName": {
"defaultValue": "actiongroup1",
"type": "string"
},
"email_receiver_address": {
"defaultValue": "someEmail#gmail.com",
"type": "string"
}
},
"variables": {},
"resources": [
{
"type": "microsoft.insights/actionGroups",
"apiVersion": "2019-03-01",
"name": "[parameters('groupName')]",
"location": "global",
"tags": {
"CreatedTimeUtc": "2020-10-21T07:24:08.2808723Z",
},
"properties": {
"groupShortName": "test",
"enabled": true,
"emailReceivers": [
{
"name": "test email received",
"emailAddress": "[parameters('email_receiver_address')]",
"useCommonAlertSchema": false
}
],
"smsReceivers": [],
"webhookReceivers": [],
"itsmReceivers": [],
"azureAppPushReceivers": [],
"automationRunbookReceivers": [],
"voiceReceivers": [],
"logicAppReceivers": [],
"azureFunctionReceivers": []
}
}
]
}