Monitoring

February 19, 2026

Featured image: Error handling and retry logic in ADF, four numbered cards for the activity retry policy, logging on failure, re-raising with a Fail activity, and alerting on failed runs

Implementing Error Handling and Retry Logic in Azure Data Factory

Layered error handling for Azure Data Factory: activity retries for transient faults, how pipeline success is really decided, log-then-fail handlers, Until/Wait polling, trigger retries and reruns.

February 4, 2026

Featured image: Production-ready ETL pipelines in Azure Data Factory, with connected tiles for Data Factory, Key Vault, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts and Azure DevOps

Azure Data Factory: Designing Production-Ready ETL Pipelines

A design guide for Azure Data Factory pipelines that survive production: orchestrator and worker pipelines, parameters, idempotent windows, timeouts and retries, concurrency, secrets, monitoring and CI/CD.