Setting up alerts

It can be useful to set up alerts in Visual Studio Online especially if you are working in a team. The following alert types are available:

• Work Item Alerts: These are triggered when any work item related to you changes

• Checkin Alerts: These occur when various checks on criteria are met

• Build Alerts: These are triggered under various build events

• Code review Alerts: These occur when a code review you are working on or a code review in the project changes

Setting up alerts allows us to view and edit our alert settings:

1. In the Visual Studio Online portal, go to the dashboard for your project and click on the settings button in the top-right corner of the screen:

   

2. In the admin window that opens, click on the Alerts tab and notice that there are some quick links down on the left-hand side under the CREATE NEW ALERT WHEN title, which we will use to quickly create some alerts:

   

3. We want to know when a build fails, so click on the A build fails link, have a quick look at the alert rules...