Description

This custom Ignite alert will look for jobs that have failed since the last time this alert executed. The #FREQUENCY# variable provides the number of minutes between each run of the alert (specified in the Execution Interval of the alert definition).

If the alert executes once every 10 minutes and is now running at 10:00 am, the alert will look for jobs that have failed since 9:50 (10 minutes ago). The email message will contain the Job Name, Step ID, Step Name and Error Message separated by colons. The 1 at the end of the alert is used to trigger the threshold in Ignite, note the 1 as the min value for the high threshold.

SQL statement

SELECT t2.name + ': ' + convert(varchar,t1.step_id) + ': ' + t1.step_name + ': ' + t1.message 
 AS "JOB NAME: STEP ID: STEP NAME: MESSAGE", 1
 FROM msdb..sysjobhistory T1 
 JOIN msdb..sysjobs T2 ON T1.job_id = T2.job_id 
 WHERE T1.run_status = 0 
 AND T1.step_id != 0
 AND CONVERT(DATETIME,RTRIM(run_date)) + 
 (run_time * 9 + run_time % 10000 * 6 + run_time % 100 * 10 + 25 * run_duration) / 216e4 
 >= dateadd (n,-#FREQUENCY#,current_timestamp)

Ignite alert definition