Azure Logic App DFS Share Monitoring

Greg Bradley 0

Completely new to Azure Logic Apps, my question at high level is, Can Azure Logic Apps monitor a DFS share for creation (and file modified) for specific files?

I have a file share that hosts tons of files, folders, sub directories, etc. I only care about 40 or so files. To only monitor the files that I care about, do I need 40 different logic apps, one for each file? If one logic app can monitor 40 specific files that would be great and what I would need to know. At that point I would need to dig in and learn how to do this, but is it even possible.

Monitoring the directory doesnt make sense as there are quite a few files that I dont care about and dont want those files to trigger my ADF pipeline.

Thank you to all who may respond. If more details are needed, please let me know.

MayankBargali-MSFT 68,476 Reputation points

2023-03-14T04:57:27.32+00:00

Hi @Greg Bradley

Following up to see if my answer and comment clear things up. Feel free to get back to me if you need any assistance.

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MayankBargali-MSFT 68,476 Reputation points

2023-03-20T06:02:29.6966667+00:00

Hi @Greg Bradley

I hope the answer helps. Feel free to get back to me if you need any assistance.

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MayankBargali-MSFT 68,476 Reputation points

2023-03-09T09:43:47.42+00:00

@Greg Bradley Thanks for reaching out. I have checked with my team and confirm that officially the DFS is not supported with the File System connector. If this would be a file system, then you can leverage the File System connector and add the expression in the trigger setting to monitor file as per your need.

I am not sure if this would work but you can try to use DFS Namespaces with Azure Files and use Azure file connector to trigger the Azure file.
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Greg Bradley 0 Reputation points

2023-03-09T12:55:28.41+00:00

Thank you! One additional question that I am looking to get answered, although now we know it may not be possible is, if I have 40 different files that I need to monitor with changes can I use one logic app? The directory could contain 100s of files and I only care to trigger if specific files are changed. Can one logic app monitor 40 specific files or would I need 40 logic apps for this? Maybe one logic app with 40 different tasks to maintain, one for each file?

Thank you

MayankBargali-MSFT 68,476 Reputation points

2023-03-13T08:40:32.1166667+00:00

@Greg Bradley Logic app will trigger for all the files on the file path that you have configured on your trigger. If all 40 files (only these files) are in a particular path, then you can configure the path so it will trigger for all files inside that folder. There is no configuration specific to a file only configuration rather than configuration is only folder parameter. If there are other files in the same path and if there is any pattern that it follows then you can use the expression in the trigger setting to limit those files else you need to handle this inside your workflow and when your workflow executes then you need to check whether the file path matches (using condition in logic app) with any of the 40 file path for which you need to further execute your workflow.

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