A conservation team wants to be notified automatically if the humidity-sensor stream from a rare-manuscripts vault stops sending readings for more than 15 minutes, without anyone having to watch a dashboard. Which Fabric capability is purpose-built for defining this kind of condition-and-action rule against live data?
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Short Explanation
Data Activator watches values as they arrive and fires an action the moment a defined condition is met, no dashboard-watching required. It's the difference between a smoke detector and someone staring at a hallway all night.
Full Explanation
Data Activator is Fabric's rule-based monitoring and alerting service: it watches a data stream, such as telemetry landing through an Eventstream, evaluates a condition against it, including a lack of expected activity within a time window, and triggers an action like an email or Teams notification when that condition is met, all without requiring anyone to keep a dashboard open. The Capacity Metrics app is an observability tool for capacity consumption and throttling, not a rule engine for reacting to data values or silence in a stream. A Dataflow Gen2 scheduled refresh runs a transformation on a timer; it doesn't evaluate conditions against incoming telemetry values or detect the absence of expected data, and it runs whether or not anything unusual happened. Item endorsement marks a workspace item as certified or promoted for organizational trust and discoverability; it has no relationship to monitoring live values or alerting. When setting this up, it's still worth picking a sensible time window for 'gone quiet,' since sensors that report on an irregular cadence can trip a too-aggressive threshold with false alerts.