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Enabling event notifications for watsonx.data

Enabling event notifications for watsonx.data

As an administrator of watsonx.data, you might want to send notifications of events in watsonx.data to other users, or human destinations, by using email, SMS, or other supported delivery channels. Additionally, you might want to send these notifications of events to other applications to build logic by using event-driven programming using webhooks, for example. This is made possible by the integration between watsonx.data and IBM Cloud® Event Notifications.

To send information to Event Notifications, you must connect your watsonx.data instance to Event Notifications. For more information about working with Event Notifications, see Getting started with Event Notifications.

How events are collected and sent by watsonx.data

When an event of interest takes place in your watsonx.data instance, watsonx.data communicates with a connected Event Notifications instance to forward a notification to a supported destination.

Events for watsonx.data

The following table lists the watsonx.data events.

Actions that generate event notifications
Event name Event type Event subtype Description Severity level
Lakehouse Storage Capacity com.ibm.cloud.lakehouse.storage_capacity storage_capacity_warning An event is generated when the storage capacity reaches warning levels Medium
Lakehouse Storage Capacity com.ibm.cloud.lakehouse.storage_capacity storage_capacity_error An event is generated when the storage capacity reaches error levels High
Lakehouse Presto Group com.ibm.cloud.lakehouse.presto_group presto_group_unavailable An event is generated when the Presto group is unavailable due to an unexpected outage High
Lakehouse Presto Group com.ibm.cloud.lakehouse.presto_group presto_group_available An event is generated when the Presto group is available Low
Lakehouse Metastore com.ibm.cloud.lakehouse.metastore metastore_unavailable An event is generated when the metastore is unavailable due to an unexpected outage High
Lakehouse Metastore com.ibm.cloud.lakehouse.metastore metastore_available An event is generated when the metastore is available Low

Enabling notifications

Events that are generated by an instance of the watsonx.data service can be forwarded to an Event Notifications service instance that is available in the same account. You can configure only one watsonx.data instance to one Event Notifications service instance.

Delivering notifications to select destinations

After you enable notifications for watsonx.data, create topics and subscriptions in Event Notifications so that alerts can be forwarded and delivered to your selected destinations.

For a complete list of supported destinations, see the Event Notifications documentation.

Email notifications

You can use the IBM Cloud email service as a delivery channel for watsonx.data event notifications. Create an Event Notifications subscription between an existing topic and the IBM Cloud email service to forward your alerts to various recipients by email.