Prevent Azure data factory from running multiple instances of a single pipeline at same time

Today we will learn on how to prevent Azure data factory from starting another instance of the pipeline when previous one is still running

Scenario: You have a pipeline that has been set to run every 5 minutes. suddenly, you notice that the pipeline has started to take more than 5 minutes and the next instance of the pipeline exucutes after 5 minutes. this is giving you problems. Follow the steps below:

Steps:

• Go to your pipeline
• Click the grey area
• Go to General > Concurrency
• Set to 1
• This will set the number of simultaneous runs of that pipeline to 1 
• Now only 1 pipeline instance can be run at one time. all the other pipeline runs will be put on waiting stage