topic How to make different notifications based on target for alert as part of bundle in Administration & Architecture

How to make different notifications based on target for alert as part of bundle

rvm1975 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:13:38 GMT

My task is to make alert notification for prod target to pagerduty and e-mail, rest targets e-mail only.

It is very easy for job or pipeline. In target you may define something like:

databricks.yml targets: prod: resources: jobs: main: webhook_notifications: on_failure: - id: "${var.pagerduty_notification_id}"

But same approach does not work for alert. Alert requires 5 more fields like name etc despite they already defined in another "resources/some_file.alert.yml"

Using empty string raises error "Expected UUID, found".
Is there any way to do that ?
Thanks

Re: How to make different notifications based on target for alert as part of bundle

balajij8 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:48:24 GMT

You can follow the same approach of using swapping out the subscriptions (alert subscriptions) based on the target for the alerts. You can follow below & change the alert subscriptions based on targets

Target Prod alert_subscriptions: - user_email: 'rvm@mosr.com' - pager_destination_id: 'a18db8fa-36ed-46d9-a085-6c3517daf232' Target Rest alert_subscriptions: - user_email: 'rvm@mosr.com'

You can setup the alert as below. It stays completely target agnostic as it references the alert_subscriptions setup earlier

resources: alerts: aalerts: display_name: aalerts evaluation: comparison_operator: EQUAL source: name: '1' threshold: value: double_value: 2 notification: notify_on_ok: false subscriptions: ${var.alert_subscriptions} query_text: select 2 schedule: quartz_cron_schedule: '44 19 */1 * * ?' timezone_id: Europe/Amsterdam warehouse_id: 460a05ed

You can use below to find UUID

w = WorkspaceClient() destinations = w.notification_destinations.list() for dest in destinations: print(dest)

Ensure the alert file containing alerts details is included under include in the yml. Ensure the UUID is sent for the pager duty as above to avoid the error "Expected UUID, found"

Re: How to make different notifications based on target for alert as part of bundle

rvm1975 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:32:49 GMT

@balajij8 Thanks for the solution. Tested it and it's working. Totally forgot that variable can be list.