Alerting

How to set an alert to find deviations from normal behavior when monitoring jobs in a SQL server?

DimkoBilanko
Explorer

I have SQL server, where are 6 SQL jobs and it's configured to write events to Windows journal every time when job is finished (it does not matter successfully or unsuccessfully).
Normal behavior is that events appears every 5 min for one job, 15 min for another, 7 min for another and etc (duration between events can be with a small deviation).

But sometimes, jobs can halt for a long time, therefore events will not appear.....

I need to setup an alert for such incidents, i.e. find deviation from normal behavior.

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niketn
Legend

You can try the following which gives duration in minute for last event received for each SQL Job. You can setup alert for duration > SLA or specific JOB not found in the following result i.e. Number of Results < 6.

host=host08 SourceName="SQLAgentHost08" EventCode=208 SQL_JOB_NAME=* | stats count as Count max(_time) as LastReceived by SQL_JOB_NAME | eval LastReceivedTime=strftime(LastReceived,"%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S") | eval durInMin=round((now()-LastReceived)/60,1) | fields - LastReceived
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| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"
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