Data Activator - Alerts on your data

While many things in Microsoft Fabric are existing tools with some new functionality, there is one brand new tool in the Fabric toolbox. That tool is Data Activator.

Data Activator is a no-code tool for automatically taking actions when patterns or conditions are detected in changing data. It monitors data in Power BI reports and Event Hub data streams, for when the data hits certain thresholds or matches other patterns. It then automatically takes appropriate action such as alerting users or kicking off Power Automate workflows.

For many years we have had good systems to organize data and set up data models/streams and calculations that allow us to know when things are not going as planned. We also have systems that can send messages or run workflows. What has been missing is how do we go from one to the other. Data Activator is the bridge between the data and the action. It monitors the data and kicks of the action based on rules you set. You don´t need to program anything which means the once who own the rules can be the ones who own the business process, not IT.

In this session we will take a look at how Data Activator bridges the gap between data and action and how easy it is to set up rules. We will talk about use cases and when systems like these make sense.