Job Duration

Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.Monitor.AgentJob.Duration (UnitMonitor)

Monitors Agent Job Duration.
Note that SQL Server Agent Windows Service is not supported by any edition of SQL Server Express; there is no appropriate discovered object.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

SQL Agent Job Duration Monitor. Monitors Agent Job Duration. This monitor will change state to critical state if the last job execution takes longer than the Critical threshold. The monitor will change its state to warning if job’s duration is between Warning and Critical thresholds.

Overridable Parameters

Name	Description	Default Value
Alert Priority	Defines Alert Priority.	Normal
Alert Severity	Defines Alert Severity.	Match monitor’s health
Critical Threshold (minutes)	The monitor will change its state to Critical if the value exceeds this threshold. Being between this threshold and the warning threshold (inclusive) will result in the monitor being in a warning state.	120
Enabled	Enables or disables the workflow.	Yes
Generates Alerts	Defines whether the workflow generates an Alert.	Yes
Interval (seconds)	The recurring interval of time in seconds in which to run the workflow.	600
Synchronization Time	The synchronization time specified by using a 24-hour format. May be omitted.
Timeout (seconds)	Specifies the time the workflow is allowed to run before being closed and marked as failed.	300
Timeout for database connection (seconds)	The workflow will fail and register an event, if it cannot access the database during the specified period.	15
Warning Threshold (minutes)	Warning threshold. Exceeding this threshold will result in the monitor changing to at least a warning state.	60

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.AgentJob

Parent Monitor

System.Health.PerformanceState

Category

PerformanceCollection

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

MatchMonitorHealth

Alert Priority

Normal

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Monitor Type

Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.MonitorType.AgentJob.Duration

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

MSSQL on Windows: Agent Job Duration Critical

Execution of the agent job "{0}" takes too long.
Instance name: {1}
Machine name: {2}

RunAs

Default

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.Monitor.AgentJob.Duration" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="SqlDiscW!Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.AgentJob" ParentMonitorID="Health!System.Health.PerformanceState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.MonitorType.AgentJob.Duration" ConfirmDelivery="false">

  <Category>PerformanceCollection</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.Monitor.AgentJob.Duration.AlertMessage">

    <AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Target/Property[Type="SqlCoreLib!Microsoft.SQLServer.Core.AgentJob"]/Name$</AlertParameter1>

      <AlertParameter2>$Target/Host/Host/Property[Type="SqlCoreLib!Microsoft.SQLServer.Core.DBEngine"]/InstanceName$</AlertParameter2>

      <AlertParameter3>$Target/Host/Host/Property[Type="SqlCoreLib!Microsoft.SQLServer.Core.DBEngine"]/MachineName$</AlertParameter3>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState ID="UnderThreshold1" MonitorTypeStateID="UnderThreshold1" HealthState="Success"/>

    <OperationalState ID="OverThreshold1UnderThreshold2" MonitorTypeStateID="OverThreshold1UnderThreshold2" HealthState="Warning"/>

    <OperationalState ID="OverThreshold2" MonitorTypeStateID="OverThreshold2" HealthState="Error"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <MachineName>$Target/Host/Host/Property[Type="SqlCoreLib!Microsoft.SQLServer.Core.DBEngine"]/MachineName$</MachineName>

    <InstanceName>$Target/Host/Host/Property[Type="SqlCoreLib!Microsoft.SQLServer.Core.DBEngine"]/InstanceName$</InstanceName>

    <ConnectionString>$Target/Host/Host/Property[Type="SqlCoreLib!Microsoft.SQLServer.Core.DBEngine"]/ConnectionString$</ConnectionString>

    <MonitoringType>$Target/Host/Host/Property[Type="SqlDiscW!Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.DBEngine"]/MonitoringType$</MonitoringType>

    <JobName>$Target/Property[Type="SqlCoreLib!Microsoft.SQLServer.Core.AgentJob"]/Name$</JobName>

    <Threshold1>60</Threshold1>

    <Threshold2>120</Threshold2>

    <SqlTimeoutSeconds>15</SqlTimeoutSeconds>

    <TimeoutSeconds>300</TimeoutSeconds>

    <IntervalSeconds>600</IntervalSeconds>

    <SyncTime/>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>