Manage your personal notifications

Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2022 - Azure DevOps Server 2019

You can manage your personal notifications in the following ways:

  • View your notifications
  • Set notifications only for yourself
  • View and edit all notification subscriptions
  • Add a custom notification subscription
  • Unsubscribe or opt out of a team or project notification subscription

Personal notifications get sent to you in the form of an email as changes occur to builds, code, pipelines, work, artifacts, extensions, releases, and more.

For information about team and project-level notifications, see Team and project-level notifications and Manage team or group notifications.

Note

For on-premises Azure DevOps Server, configure an SMTP server for team members to see the Notifications option from their organization or user profile menu and to receive notifications.

Prerequisites

View your personal notifications

The following table shows notification event examples. For more information, see a full representation in About notifications.

Item Notification event examples
Work item assigned, unassigned, comments
Code reviews updated, completed
Pull request added or removed reviewer, completion failure, comments
Source control file created, updated
Build completion success, completion failure
  1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}).

  2. Select User settings, and then select Notifications from the resulting list.

    Preview page of personal notifications.

  1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}).

  2. Open User settings, and then select Notification settings from the resulting list.

    Screenshot showing personal notifications hub.

Screenshot showing personal notification subscriptions.

Screenshot of unsubscribe from notification subscriptions.

A notification subscription can be only for you. But, if you're a team administrator you can ensure that it goes to everyone on the team.

Add a custom notification subscription

With custom personal notification subscriptions, you can define precise criteria for the events that you want to receive notifications. A custom notification subscription can notify you about any event. Default notification subscriptions differ, as they only notify users or groups directly associated with an event.

  1. From your Notifications page, select New subscription.

Screenshot of New notification subscription selected.

  1. Choose the category and template that you want to use, and then select Next. For a list of supported templates, see Default and supported notifications.

    Here we choose to get notified when a pull request is created within a specific project, Fabrikam Fiber.

    Screenshot of new notification subscription-selected category and template.

  2. Modify the description to help you identify the notification subscription later. Also, choose an email address for the notifications to be delivered to. By default, your preferred email address is used. Optionally, include one or more fields to further specify the event criteria. Select Finish when you're done.

    Screenshot of updated notification subscription dialog with field criteria.

    Note

    The fields available for filtering event criteria differ depending on the category and template that you select. For more information about event types, see Supported event types.

    The new notification subscription appears in the list under the category that you selected.

    Screenshot of confirmation of new subscription added.

  1. From your Notifications page, select New subscription.

    Screenshot of the personal new notification subscription dialog, current page.

  2. Choose the category and template you want to use. For a list of supported templates, see Default and supported notifications.

    Here we choose to get notified when a pull request is created within a specific project, Fabrikam Fiber.

    Screenshot of personal notifications new notification subscription dialog.

  3. Modify the description to help you identify the notification subscription later. Also, choose an email address for the notifications to be delivered to. By default, your preferred email address is used. Optionally, include one or more fields to further specify the event criteria.

    Screenshot of new notification subscription event criteria.

    Note

    The fields available for filtering event criteria differ depending on the category and template that you select. For more information about event types, see Supported event types.

  4. Select Finish when you're done. The notification subscription appears on the list under the category that you selected.

    Screenshot showing the notification subscription on the list under its category.

Unsubscribe or opt out of a team or out-of-box (OOB) notification subscription

You can opt out of receiving notifications for specific team notification subscriptions.

  1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}).

  2. Select User settings, and then select Notifications from the resulting list.

    Screenshot of personal notifications, preview page.

  3. To unsubscribe from any notification, slide the state On/Off indicator to the Off position.

To unsubscribe from any notification, slide the state On/Off indicator to the Off position. For example, here we turn off the "Build completes" notification subscription.

Screenshot of unsubscribe from Build completes notification subscription.

Note

Whether you're an administrator or not, toggling for a shared team notification subscription in your settings only affects your notifications, not those of other team members.

Disable work item notifications for a project

To override organization settings and disable all work item notifications for a project in Azure DevOps, do the following steps:

  1. Sign in to your project (https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization/Your_Project}).
  2. Select Project settings > Notifications.
  3. Highlight the Work notification and select Delivery settings.
  4. Choose Do not deliver and Save.

Next steps

Limitations

The user interface no longer supports creating plain text email notification subscriptions.