Learning Microsoft Azure

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 ...