Databricks-DE-Pro Monitoring and Alerting Practice Question
Exhibit
{
"alert_config": {
"name": "Latency Alert",
"query_id": "12345",
"options": {
"column": "duration",
"op": ">",
"value": "3600"
}
}
}Refer to the exhibit. An engineer created this alert for a query. Under what condition will the alert status change to 'Triggered'?
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often misinterpret the alert condition logic, confusing the 'Triggered' state with the 'OK' state or failing to distinguish between the 'threshold' value and the 'column' being monitored.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
✓
When the 'duration' column value in the query output is strictly greater than 3600.
The alert is configured to monitor the 'duration' column from the specified query result. If the returned value exceeds 3600, the alert enters the 'Triggered' state. Understanding this threshold-based mechanism is vital for maintaining pipeline performance. If queries consistently exceed this time, the alert notifies the engineer to investigate potential resource contention, suboptimal query plans, or data volume spikes, ensuring the stability and timely execution of data processing tasks.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✗
When the query returns a row count greater than 3600.
Why it's wrong here
The configuration explicitly targets the 'duration' column as the evaluation metric for the alert condition. The row count of the result set is irrelevant to this specific trigger configuration, which focuses exclusively on the time-based performance of the query execution.
- ✓
When the 'duration' column value in the query output is strictly greater than 3600.
Why this is correct
The 'op' field is set to '>', and the column is 'duration' with a threshold of '3600'. Therefore, any value exceeding 3600 returned by the query result set will satisfy the condition and transition the alert to the 'Triggered' state.
- ✗
When the query execution takes longer than 3600 seconds to run.
Why it's wrong here
The alert is based on a specific column in the query results, not the internal query runtime metadata. While the query might return a value representing duration, the alert evaluates the data returned by the query, not the Databricks SQL execution engine's internal timer.
- ✗
When the query fails and returns an error code equal to 3600.
Why it's wrong here
Alerts in Databricks SQL are based on successful query result sets that meet a condition, not on trapping application or SQL errors. If a query fails, the alert cannot process the output, and the state will remain in the last known valid configuration.
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