What should you use to prevent the deployment of releases that fail to meet the performance baseline?

Your company hosts a web application in Azure. The company uses Azure Pipelines for the build and release management of the application.

Stakeholders report that the past few releases have negatively affected system performance.

You configure alerts in Azure Monitor.

You need to ensure that new releases are only deployed to production if the releases meet defined performance baseline criteria in the staging environment first

What should you use to prevent the deployment of releases that fail to meet the performance baseline?
A . a trigger
B . an Azure function
C . a gate
D . an Azure Scheduler job

Answer: C