How to create an alert processing rule filtered on resource creation with a given name

Question

Hi,

I am trying to create an alert processing rule that would send an email notification to an action group.

I created an alert with a defined scope limited to All SQL Databases and a signal based on Create/Update Database. Then I created an alert processing rule that would send and email based on the filter: Resource -> Equals (or Contains) the database name I want to be alerted with.

I am still receiving emails on all database creation events, regardless of the filter I am setting.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Hi @El Khamkhami, Ayman ,

As per this Azure document, a scope is a list of one or more specific Azure resources, a specific resource group, or an entire subscription. So, I believe we can't define scope limited to resource type. However, to accomplish your requirement, we could leverage resource type filter as explained in the same Azure document i.e., resource type filter helps the rule to apply only to alerts on resources from the specified resource type. So, you could configure alert processing rule something like shown in below screenshot.