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Data quality alerts notify you about important events or unexpected behavior detected around the quality of the data. When you create alerts for data assets, you receive email notifications about data quality scores.
Required roles
To create data quality alerts, you need the data quality steward role.
Set data quality alerts
In Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog, select Health management, then select Data quality.
On the Data Quality page, select a governance ___domain from the list.
Select Manage, then select Alerts.
Select New to set up a new alert for the data products and data assets in your selected governance ___domain.
On the Overview tab, enter a Display name and a Description.
For Target, select any of the following options:
- Score less than: Alerts you if the assets' data quality score is less than certain percentage.
- Score decreased by more than: Alerts you if the current quality score drops by certain percentage after a new scan is run.
Select the threshold that triggers an alert.
Select Turn on notifications for failed quality scan to enable alert notifications.
Add a Recipient to send the notification email to the recipient alias.
Select Continue to define the scope of alerts.
On the Scope tab, select data products and data assets that the alert will monitor, then select Save.
Select Continue to review.
Check alert details on the Review tab, then select Submit to create the alert.
Disable data quality alerts
Alerts are enabled by default. To disable an alert:
In Unified Catalog, select Health management, then select Data quality.
On the Data Quality page, select a governance ___domain from the list.
Select Manage, then select Alerts.
Select the Notifications toggle next to the alert, or select the alert and select the Turn off notifications checkbox.
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Note
Disabling an alert stops the sending of notification emails related to the assets within the alert's scope.
Next steps
- Set up data quality rules based on the profiling results, and apply them to your data asset.
- Configure and run a data quality scan on a data product to assess the quality of all supported assets in the data product.
- Review your scan results to evaluate your data product's current data quality.