Azure Data Factory Maximum allotments and metric alerts questions

Question

We are implementing metric alerts for an Azure Data Factory. There are signals where I am confused on some or how to set the alert logic for one.

• Total factory size (GB unit) - could you do a metric alert on this? What would the logic be?
• Maximum allowed factory size (GB unit) - is there a maximum factory size in GB? I know there are limits on total number of resources, but I haven't found anything in docs showing this.
• Maximum allowed entities count - I know the total is 5000, but is there somewhere you can set a different max?
  • Elapsed Time Pipeline Runs Metrics - what would the alert logic be for any pipeline that has run over 4 hours?

Answer 1

Hello @Murray, Blake ,
Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.
As we understand the ask here is how we can use the metrics please do let us know if its not accurate.
When looking at the first three metrics , i do not thing that you can configure them to a custom value . I am checking back on these with the product team and will update you on the same .

For the last ask , at this time the window bucket is done at 6,12,24.... hrs and configuring somethng for 4 hrs cannot be done from the UI . Please go ahead add a feedback here https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/forum/1219ec2d-6c26-ec11-b6e6-000d3a4f032c

Please do let me if you have any queries.
Thanks
Himanshu

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Answer 2

Yes those are what I am referring to.

The first 3 I am just wanting to if those are even possible to check/know? If you can't set maximum values for ADF or it's entities I don't know what that metric is used for then.

I think my best option for the last one is to use log analytics and write a custom alert from there then.

Answer 3

Total factory size - Because azure data factory's log which include linked servce, dataset, pipeline ...... are stored in the form of json text, the size here refers to the size of the data stored