Setting up data quality alerts

Overview

Snowplow can send two types of alerts to help you monitor Failed Events:

• New failed event: receive an alert within 10 minutes of a new type of event failure being detected on your pipeline.
• Failed event digest: receive a twice-daily digest of all Failed Event activity in the previous 12-hour period.

Pre-requisites

To receive alerts you must have the Failed Events monitoring feature switched on in the Snowplow BDP console.

Subscribing to alerts

• Login to Snowplow BDP console
• Locate the pipeline you wish to set up alerts for in the left-hand navigation
• Find and select Pipeline configuration
• Scroll down to Pipeline alerts or use the page navigation to jump to it

• Click Manage for the alert you wish to subscribe to
• Add one or more email addresses by typing them into the input and clicking Add recipient
• Once you have added all recipients, click Save Changes