Azure Data Factory Part 6 - Triggers and Types of Triggers
Summary
TLDRThis video from the Azure Data Factory series introduces triggers, which automate pipeline execution. It explains three types: scheduled, tumbling window, and event-based triggers. The presenter demonstrates how to create and configure these triggers in Azure Data Factory, emphasizing their role in batch and real-time processing. The tutorial also covers manual triggering and monitoring triggers, providing practical insights for automating data workflows.
Takeaways
- 🔧 Triggers in Azure Data Factory are mechanisms to execute a pipeline run automatically.
- 📅 There are three main types of triggers: scheduled, tumbling window, and event-based triggers.
- ⏰ Scheduled triggers run pipelines based on a fixed time schedule, like every day at 9 a.m.
- 🔄 Tumbling window triggers operate on a periodic interval and differ from scheduled triggers in their granularity, focusing on hours and minutes.
- 📂 Event-based triggers initiate pipeline execution in response to specific events, such as the creation of a file in a storage account.
- 🛠️ Creating a trigger involves setting a name, description, start time, time zone, and recurrence pattern.
- 🔄 Recurrence settings for triggers allow for customization of execution frequency, from minutes to months.
- 🔗 Tumbling window triggers can have dependencies on other triggers, indicating a sequence of operations.
- 🚫 Advanced options for triggers include the ability to set delays, manage concurrency, and define retry policies for failed pipeline executions.
- 📝 Annotations can be added to triggers for additional information or notes.
- 🔒 Security and monitoring are implied as part of the process, with a dashboard to view trigger statistics and status.
- 🔄 The video script demonstrates the creation and management of triggers within Azure Data Factory, emphasizing automation and customization.
Q & A
What is the primary purpose of triggers in Azure Data Factory?
-Triggers in Azure Data Factory are used to automate the execution of a pipeline run. They determine when a pipeline execution should be initiated, allowing for the automation of batch processing and real-time processing tasks.
How many types of triggers are discussed in the video?
-The video discusses three main types of triggers: scheduled trigger, tumbling window trigger, and event-based trigger.
What is a scheduled trigger and how does it work?
-A scheduled trigger is a type of trigger that invokes a pipeline on a wall clock schedule. It can be set to run a pipeline at specific times, such as every day at 9 a.m., according to a predefined schedule.
Can you explain the concept of a tumbling window trigger?
-A tumbling window trigger operates on a periodic interval. It is different from a scheduled trigger in terms of its granularity, which is limited to hours and minutes, and it does not include months, days, and weeks as options.
What is an event-based trigger and how does it differ from other triggers?
-An event-based trigger responds to a specific event, such as the creation or deletion of a file in a storage account. It differs from other triggers as it does not rely on a time-based schedule but rather on the occurrence of an event.
What is the difference between 'trigger now' and creating a new trigger in Azure Data Factory?
-'Trigger now' is a manual trigger that initiates a pipeline run immediately, whereas creating a new trigger sets up an automated process that will run the pipeline at specified intervals or in response to an event.
How can you set up a pipeline to run every 15 minutes in Azure Data Factory?
-You can set up a pipeline to run every 15 minutes by creating a scheduled trigger, setting the recurrence to every 15 minutes, and specifying the appropriate time zone.
What is the role of dependencies in tumbling window triggers?
-Dependencies in tumbling window triggers allow one trigger to be dependent on the completion or start of another trigger. This ensures that the pipeline execution is coordinated based on the status of other triggers.
What options are available for configuring an event-based trigger in Azure Data Factory?
-For an event-based trigger, you can configure the Azure subscription, storage account, container name, blob path with regular expressions, and specify the event type, such as blob creation or deletion, that will trigger the pipeline execution.
How can you monitor the performance and status of triggers in Azure Data Factory?
-You can monitor the performance and status of triggers in Azure Data Factory using the monitoring dashboard, which provides statistics for different types of triggers, including scheduled, tumbling window, storage events, and custom events.
What are some advanced options available for configuring triggers in Azure Data Factory?
-Some advanced options for configuring triggers include setting a delay, managing concurrency to control how many triggers run simultaneously, defining retry policies for failed pipeline executions, and specifying a retry interval time.
Outlines
🔄 Introduction to Triggers in Azure Data Factory
This paragraph introduces the concept of triggers in Azure Data Factory, which are mechanisms to execute pipeline runs automatically. It explains the need for automation in scenarios like batch and real-time processing and outlines the three types of triggers: scheduled, tumbling window, and event-based. The speaker illustrates how triggers can be used to define when a pipeline should run, either on a set schedule or in response to specific events, and provides an example of setting up a manual trigger versus creating a scheduled or event-based trigger within the Azure Data Factory interface.
📅 Creating and Configuring Schedule-Based Triggers
The second paragraph delves into the specifics of creating a schedule-based trigger, which is set to invoke a pipeline on a predetermined time schedule. The speaker guides through the process of naming the trigger, setting the start time, time zone, and recurrence pattern. It also touches on the advanced options for configuring the trigger, such as dependencies on other triggers, delay settings, concurrency limits, and retry policies. The paragraph emphasizes the granularity of scheduling options available, from minutes to months, and the ability to define an end date for the trigger's operation.
🔄 Understanding Tumbling Window and Event-Based Triggers
This paragraph contrasts the tumbling window trigger with the schedule-based trigger, highlighting the differences in their granularity and use cases. It explains that tumbling window triggers operate on a periodic interval, focusing on hours and minutes, and can be set up with dependencies and advanced options similar to schedule-based triggers. The speaker then transitions to event-based triggers, which are activated by specific events such as the creation or deletion of a blob in Azure storage. The paragraph outlines the configuration steps for event-based triggers, including selecting the Azure subscription, storage account, container, and defining the events that will trigger the pipeline execution.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Triggers
💡Pipeline
💡Scheduled Trigger
💡Tumbling Window Trigger
💡Event-based Trigger
💡ADF (Azure Data Factory)
💡Data Sets
💡Blob Storage
💡Automation
💡Recurrence
💡Dependencies
Highlights
Introduction to triggers in Azure Data Factory and their role in executing pipeline runs.
Explanation of how triggers can automate the running of pipelines without manual intervention.
Types of triggers in Azure Data Factory: Scheduled, Tumbling Window, and Event-based triggers.
Scheduled triggers for running pipelines at specific times based on a wall clock schedule.
Tumbling window triggers for operating on a periodic interval, differing from scheduled triggers.
Event-based triggers that respond to specific events, such as file copy completion.
Demonstration of creating a demo pipeline in Azure Data Factory with copy activity.
Creating and managing triggers directly from the Azure Data Factory interface.
Options to trigger a pipeline manually or to create a new scheduled, event-based, or tumbling window trigger.
The process of creating a new trigger with a specific start time and recurrence.
Configuring the granularity of trigger recurrence, such as minutes, hours, days, or weeks.
Setting an end date for when a trigger should no longer execute the pipeline.
Adding annotations and configuring dependencies between different triggers.
Advanced options for triggers, including delay, concurrency, and retry settings.
Monitoring dashboard in Azure Data Factory for viewing trigger statistics and types.
Practical example of creating an event-based trigger for blob storage events.
Custom events configuration for more specific or complex event-based trigger scenarios.
Encouragement to subscribe to the channel for more informative sessions on Azure Data Factory.
Transcripts
hi everyone welcome back to azure data
factory video series part six so in this
section we'll be discussing about uh
triggers and different types of triggers
so without any further ado let's get
into the concept triggers so triggers
are basically just a way that you can
execute a pipeline run
now let's say you have created your
pipeline and that is ready to be
deployed in the protection now you
wanted to run the pipeline so it's it's
it's
it's not a job that you go there and you
run it manually every day for example
you have batch processings and you have
real time processing for example and you
are instructing
to the adf that you run this pipeline
every one hour or maybe every night
around eight o'clock end of the day
reports for example for end of the day
batch right so for that you need to have
an automatic process in place so
basically triggers are used to automate
the pipeline run so you you can
advise or you can define that to run a
specific pipeline on a specific time
and you can also schedule that so
triggers represent
a unit of processing that determines
when a pipeline execution needs to be
kicked off so mainly this is when a
pipeline execution needs to be kicked
off so basically you are defining or you
are telling to adf using triggers when
you want to execute a pipeline in an
automatic fashion okay and what are the
different types of triggers you have
basically you have three types of
triggers scheduled trigger and then you
have tumbling window trigger and event
based trigger so let's try to see one by
one so what is schedule trigger so i
think the name itself says it's
basically self explanatory so basically
you are trying to schedule a trigger so
a trigger that invokes a pipeline on
wall clock
schedule basically i say that every day
morning 9 a.m you trigger my pipeline so
that comes under schedule trigger then
you have another type which is called
tumbling window trigger so a trigger
that operates on a periodic interval
basically that is called a tumbling
window trigger so there is a slight
difference between schedule trigger and
tumbling window trigger we will look
into that and then you have a third type
of trigger which is called event based
trigger
so basically
this is nothing but a trigger that
responds to an event so let's say i do
not want my pipeline to run every day or
every one hour i want my pipeline to
respond or i want my pipeline to run
based on a specific event
event could be
copying a file from one location to
another location once that file is being
copied to specific location then you
trigger my pipeline basically my
pipeline picks that file and sends it to
another location that could be a use
case okay so basically these are the
three types of triggers we have
then if i
look into
the azure data factory for example
so if you remember that we've used uh
we've created this demo pipeline one in
section three creating uh your first
azure data factory pipeline there we've
used this copy activity to copy from
source
right test data input and also we have
created a sync data sets basically we've
created two data sets source and sync
and we used copy data
pipeline uh
maybe copy data activity and create a
demo pipeline basically to copy the file
from source to sync
right now we have created the pipeline
so let me close this so that we have
more space so now i want to run this
pipeline so what are the options i have
so if you see
you have a option called add trigger
here
right so if i click on this guy so
basically if i click on this guy i have
two options
either i can trigger it now
so basically trigger now which is like
manual trigger or i can create a trigger
any one of the type like schedule event
based or tumbling window i can create
any of that type of trigger
and i can tell or i can define saying
that you run this automatically every
day for example right so you can also
have a manual trigger if i click on
trigger now basically so it says that
okay
it takes the last published
configuration that's fine if i click on
ok
so basically now it's running uh the
pipeline so basically this pipeline does
copy a file from source sensing so this
is a manual trigger but i do not want to
manually trigger this every day in the
morning that's not my job i want to
automate this process so for that you
could
create a new trigger here then choose
the trigger basically i do not have any
triggers created okay that is succeeded
okay so i do not have any triggers
created either i can click new which
will allow me to create a new triggers
or
i could go to manage and then i could
also create a new triggers from this
section so you have multiple places
where you can create the triggers and if
i go to monitor
just to show you something here you have
a monitoring
dashboard with different types of
trigger so if you see here if you click
on odd basically if you have any
triggers you get the statistics of those
triggers here but you have schedule
based triggers
tumbling window storage events and
custom emails basically these two come
under event-based triggers okay so
currently we do not have any triggers
let's try to create one trigger and see
how to do that
so if i come here if you are under
triggers then you click on new
and then it asks you to create the name
of the trigger okay
so i put a
schedule hyphen
okay it doesn't like hyphen okay so you
have a specific naming convention then i
say schedule underscore trigger
right and then add some description here
so basically i wanted to show you what
are the different options you have so
when it comes here on the type basically
you have three different four different
types schedule tumbling and event and
event has two different types so now i
want schedule okay you select that then
it asks you what is the start time for
this so when you want to choose when you
want to start this trigger so basically
you can fill in the start time then you
can also give the time zone as well so
which time zone you want
the trigger to follow and then you can
say that what is the recurrence time so
whether you want to run it like every
day or every two days every 15 minutes
okay so if you click on this guy here
you have couple of other options so
basically you can configure whether you
want to run it at minutes or hours days
and weeks right this is the granularity
and you also have months as
so let's put it for minutes so what i'm
trying to say is you run this every 15
minutes you run the pipeline every 15
minutes you can also specify the end
date when you want to end this complete
pipeline you do not want to run it after
the specific end date you can also add
some annotations and here you have a
check box basically it says that
if you enable this check box and then
you click on ok it's you are saying that
you start the trigger immediately after
creating this trigger so basically you
don't have to enable this so
this is start date and every 15 minutes
you run this trigger so this is schedule
based trigger okay so then i have
tumbling trigger
so
when it comes to tumbling trigger
if i select tumbling trigger let's try
to see what are the different options so
i think you need to understand the
slight difference between tumbling
trigger and also schedule based trigger
so basically the start date is same for
both and then the recurrence is also
same but if i click on these units
basically the granularity here for
tumbling is
for hours and minutes whereas for
schedule it was still months days and
weeks right this is a major difference
between these two different types of
triggers and then if you click on this
advanced option you also have an option
to add dependencies for example if i
click on this so you could also choose
if there is any other trigger
let's say i am saying that
you depend this trigger on another
trigger once the other trigger is
finished or started then you
run this trigger so basically i'm adding
a dependencies here with different
triggers so you also have an option to
do that and then if i click on advanced
and you can also configure few other
options you can add delay you can have
concurrency how many triggers you want
to run simultaneously
if the pipeline fails you
can also say that retry for us three or
four times again right because for
network related sometimes if you're
running this under vnet if if the
network is down it could also fail it
doesn't mean that the pipeline is wrong
you could retry as well and what is a
retry interval time as well in seconds
you can also define that you can add
annotations and this is the same star
trigger on creation basically this is a
tumbling trigger let's also look into
the storage event so basically event
based trigger
so event
trigger
yeah so here with for event based
triggers so basically the
the options you have here to configure
is so you select azure subscription okay
you you fill in all the information what
is the storage account and things like
that maybe let's try to fill in this
information and then i have different
storage accounts okay let me fill in
this information you also need to
provide the container name
okay for example container is not
written
let me look into the container name what
i have
within my azure storage account
so if i go to
portal.azure.com i just want to check my
storage accounts and container names for
example if i go to the storage accounts
and then within this storage account i
just wanted to check what is the
container i have okay i have source and
sync
maybe i can give um
sou or ce source
and this okay this is in the same in the
puff the correct format it's expecting
now
you need to give
block path let's say blob path begins
with blob path ends with you can also
give those a regular expressions here
okay so what is the event here right
choose which events are associated with
this trigger so
when you want to run this trigger what
is the event you are defining so
whenever the blob is created you trigger
this pipeline or whenever the blob is
deleted you create this pipeline
basically this is the event i'm giving
here right so this could be one use case
if there is a new blob created then you
just trigger this
this trigger is
based on the event
which is block creation or population
and then you have another type which is
a custom events so more or less you have
the same options here and then you it is
basically customized so when it comes to
storage accounts it's specific to
storage but this could be more
customized right and you have couple of
options here which you can configure as
well and you can also add some advanced
filters
and even types you can also add you can
also give some event types but uh for
custom events we will look into it with
an example when we do more practical
sessions
with the mapping data flows and with
different control
flow activities but for now uh you have
to understand that there are types of
triggers right and how to configure them
basically
and if i go back to
my session yeah so basically these are
the three different types of triggers we
have in azure data factory so i hope uh
you like this session or
just this video if you think you've
gained any knowledge out of this by this
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