topic Re: How do I create an alert triggering if a task in task-scheduler fail, or for some reason doesn't start? in Alerting https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-do-I-create-an-alert-triggering-if-a-task-in-task-scheduler/m-p/417313#M11745 <P>@mceye </P> <P>It depends on the events of the task scheduler. For e.g. if you have the logs from tasks available in splunk, you can search for the string which tells you whether the task was executed successfully or not. If you do not see this event (it's either failed or didn't run) for a specific time (schedule) send an alert</P> <P>For e.g. if a successful task execution shows as "task=task1, status=completed" , you can search for this event and send an alert if no results found.</P> <P>It would be helpful if you could share some sample events </P> Sat, 02 Mar 2019 02:52:36 GMT renjith_nair 2019-03-02T02:52:36Z How do I create an alert triggering if a task in task-scheduler fail, or for some reason doesn't start? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-do-I-create-an-alert-triggering-if-a-task-in-task-scheduler/m-p/417312#M11744 <P>Have a task on a server that I want to monitor.<BR /> Can I search for specific event from that server and get an alert if it's spotted?<BR /> How does that search look like?</P> Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:26:08 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-do-I-create-an-alert-triggering-if-a-task-in-task-scheduler/m-p/417312#M11744 mceye 2019-02-28T10:26:08Z Re: How do I create an alert triggering if a task in task-scheduler fail, or for some reason doesn't start? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-do-I-create-an-alert-triggering-if-a-task-in-task-scheduler/m-p/417313#M11745 <P>@mceye </P> <P>It depends on the events of the task scheduler. For e.g. if you have the logs from tasks available in splunk, you can search for the string which tells you whether the task was executed successfully or not. If you do not see this event (it's either failed or didn't run) for a specific time (schedule) send an alert</P> <P>For e.g. if a successful task execution shows as "task=task1, status=completed" , you can search for this event and send an alert if no results found.</P> <P>It would be helpful if you could share some sample events </P> Sat, 02 Mar 2019 02:52:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-do-I-create-an-alert-triggering-if-a-task-in-task-scheduler/m-p/417313#M11745 renjith_nair 2019-03-02T02:52:36Z