Data Rules and Alerts

Data rules define the information that you want to see about the data that passes between stages. You can create data rules based on any link in the pipeline. You can also enable metrics and create alerts for data rules.

When you click a link between two stages while monitoring a pipeline, the Monitor panel displays summary statistics, data rules, and information about the stream of data that the link represents. The summary statistics that display are based on the data rules that you create.

You can configure data rules when you configure or monitor the pipeline. To create a data rule, you need familiarity with the data being processed. You might preview data or take a snapshot of data to help determine how to configure data rules.