Monitoring and alerting parameters

Learn how to add monitoring and alerting information to your data operation configurations.

The monitoring and alerting parameters are defined in a JSON object added at the root level of the JSON data operation configuration. It contains the following sections:

• Monitoring parameters: General information about the criticality of the data operation.

• Alerting parameters: One or several alert messages and channels, containing information about how to alert the right people throw which system or application.

Currently, you can only send on alert message, and only by email. But we are thinking about adding more alert systems like Pagerduty, Datadog, or throw a generic web-hook. Feel free to suggest to us your preferred alerting platform.

Example

Here is an example in a TTT configuration file:

{
	"configuration_type": "table-to-table",
	"configuration_id": "000001_append_some_data",
	"short_description": "Append some data to a partitioned table",
	"account": "000099",
	"environment": "DEV",
	"activated": true,
	"archived": false,
	"start_date": "2023, 1, 23",
	"schedule_interval": "*/5 * * * *",
	"max_active_runs": 1,
	"task_concurrency": 3,
	"default_gcp_project_id": "my-project",
	"default_bq_dataset": "my_dataset",
	"default_write_disposition": "WRITE_TRUNCATE",
	"direct_execution": true,
	"task_dependencies": [
		"create_my_data_table >> merge_table_with_last_data"
	],
	"workflow": [
		{
			"task_type": "create_gbq_table",
			"id": "create_my_data_table",
			"short_description": "Create the destination table with partitioning on date and clustering",
			"bq_table": "my_data",
			"ddl_file": "my_data.json",
			"force_delete": false
		},
		{
			"task_type": "run_gbq_script",
			"id": "merge_table_with_last_data",
			"sql_file": "merge_table_with_last_data.sql"
		}
	],
  "monitoring": { 
    "impact": 2, 
    "urgency": 2, 
    "alert_enabled": true,
    "alert_status": ["FAILED","NO_MATCH"], 
    "alert_environment": ["PROD","DEV"],
    "alert_info": "Put here information about the alert", 
    "alert": { 
      "email" :  { 
          "email_from": "[e-mail]", 
          "email_to": "[e-mail];[e-mail]", 
          "email_reply_to": "[e-mail]", 
          "email_subject": "Data Operation Alert : @configuration_id has just failed", 
          "email_body_type": "txt",
          "email_body": "Type : @configuration_type\nID : @configuration_id\nImpact : @impact\nEnvironnement : @environnement"
        }
      }
  }
}

🌐 Global monitoring parameters

General parameters about the monitoring.

Parameter	Description
impact type: integer optional	'Impact' is an ITIL measure of the extent of the Incident and of the potential damage caused by the Incident before it can be resolved. Learn more If not specified, the default value will be 2.
urgency type: integer optional	'Urgency' is a measure of how quickly a resolution of the Incident is required. Learn more If not specified, the default value will be 2.
alert_enabled type: boolean mandatory	Flag used to enable/disable the execution of the alerting (i.e. send an alert to a recipient when the run failed)
alert_status (beta) type: array optional	Specifies the Run Status that will trigger the alert. Possible values: FAILED, SUCCESS, NO_MATCH, CHECKED. Default value: "FAILED"
alert_environment type: array mandatory	Specifies the environments that will trigger the alert. Possible values: PROD, PREPROD, STAGING, DEV.
alert_info type: string optional	Short information describing the alert. You can refer it as a variable in your triggering message (as email) with the @alert_info parameter.
alert type: array of maps optional	List of alert messages the data operation will trigger if it fails. Check the section below for detailed information on their parameters.

⚠️ Alert parameters

An alert will be able to trigger different types of messages. Currently, only an email alert can be sent.

For each alert message, parameters will differ depending on the message type.

📨 Email alert

An email alert will send an email with specific parameters each time the data operation fails in the specified environments.

By default, Tailer provides an email template with detailed information. Thus, you don't have to fill in all the parameters such as subject, body, etc. But you can also personalize all the parameters to set precisely how the alert email should look like. For that, you can use the alert variables described below.

Parameter	Description
email_from type: string optional	Surcharge the "email from" attribute. Default value: "[e-mail]"
email_to type: string mandatory	List of email recipients You can specify more than one recipient by separating the email addresses with a ; example: "[e-mail];[e-mail]"
email_reply_to type: string optional	Surcharge the "email reply to" attribute. Default value: "[e-mail]"
email_subject type: string optional	Subject of the triggered alert email. Default value: "TAILER RUN ALERT: @jobid FAILED at @execution_date" You can personalize the subject with the alert variables described below.
email_body_type type: string optional	Format type of the email body. Default value: "html" Other possible value: "txt"
email_body type: string optional	Body of the alert email. Default value: "See attached html file below" You can personalize the body with the alert variables described below. Be careful to use the right body format according to the email_body_type parameter.

🧩 Alert message variables

Alert messages can be personalized with alert message variables. Those variables are contextualized during the data operation run.

Variable	Description
@url_to_tailer_studio_run_id	Tailer Studio URL for the run
@url_to_tailer_studio_conf_id	Tailer Studio URL for the run current configuration ID
@account	Account of the data operation's run
@environment	Environment of the data operation's run
@status	Status of the data operation's run
@configuration_id	Configuration ID of the data operation
@configuration_type	Configuration type of the data operation's run
@execution_date	Execution date of the data operation's run
@short_description	Short description of the data operation
@job_id	Job ID of the data operation
@run_id	Run ID of the data operation's run
@updated_by	Email address of the user who last updated the configuration
@update_date	Date tile of the last configuration update
@impact	Monitoring impact level parameter
@urgency	Monitoring urgency level parameter
@alert_info	Alert info set in the monitoring parameter