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Windows scheduled tasks

Windows scheduled tasks

Monitor your Windows scheduled tasks and alert on execution issues.

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See all your monitored Scheduled Tasks on this overview dashboard, alongside Windows Event Logs.Open any of your configured hosts to view the scheduled tasks running on it. Use the drilldowns provided to explore each task in more detail.The Davis AI will automatically open a Problem when a task has not completed successfully. You can also enable alerts for hanging tasks and missed executions.Make use of the Unified Analysis screens to explore all scheduled tasks in your environment.Ingesting events from the Windows Event log gives a complete picture into the execution stages and issues encountered by the task scheduler
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Overview

This is a OneAgent extension running on Windows servers. Every minute, the extension interrogates the system for details about your configured scheduled tasks and sends Dynatrace the current state each task is in along with the time that passed since their last executions.

A problem is created automatically for any task which registered an operational failure (failed to launch, execute, or complete). Additionally, problems can also be enabled for tasks which are taking longer than expected to complete or ones which have missed their expected scheduled execution.

Use cases

  • Track the state of scheduled tasks
  • Alert on failed executions, hanging tasks, and missed runs

Compatibility information

  • Microsoft Windows 2012 R12 and newer.
  • Minimum OneAgent version 1.275.0
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⚠️IMPORTANT CHANGE

  • Dynatrace minimum EEC version requirement has been increased to 1.318.0

Fixed in this version

  • task.state now displays the correct state when available instead of Unknown in logs.

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Fixed in this version

  • Metric metadata for 'Time since execution' metric now indicates "seconds" as its unit

New in this version

  • An overview dashboard for the latest platform
  • UI visualization that is compatible with AppEngine
  • Security Context is now extracted as entity attribute

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Fixed in this version:

  • Incorrect time conversions would cause wrong alerting behaviour for custom timeouts & frequencies

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Fixed in this version:

  • Only the final error event would open a Problem. Now all failure-indicating events open problems.

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Fixed in this version:

  • Problem details would not be fully parsed resulting in less problems open
  • Metrics were not linked to tasks found in root location (\)

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Fixed in this version:

  • Tasks would not be recognized correctly on French locale systems

Improved in this version:

  • A larger timeframe with buffer are employed to work around any potential delays from Windows Log Event writing
  • The Event ID is included in any problems triggered from a Task Scheduler Event

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New in this version:

  • A configuration parameter to allow supressing alerts from certain Windows Events. This allows modifying the default list of events for which the extension would open a Problem.

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Fixed in this version

  • In very rare cases some events might be skipped due to event log delays

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🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • Tasks with similar names would sometimes be conflated in Dynatrace.

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✨ New in this version:

  • Added the option to auto-discover scheduled tasks.
  • Added an overview dashboard.

🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • The custom task frequency setting was being incorrectly interpreted as hours instead of minutes. ⚠️If you were previously using custom task frequency, this fix may lead to a higher number of problems being raised as the value is now properly interpreted.⚠️

  • Tasks with timeout PT0S (no timeout) were being incorrectly classified as having a 0 second timeout.

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🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • Checking missed runs would error due to variable reference before assignment
  • Extension signature was updated to the new Dynatrace certificate

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🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • Task 'name' reference would cause errors when checking timeouts

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🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • Time since execution metric not always being reported

🚀 Improved in this version:

  • Logging is more detailed, giving information about the extension activity

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🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • Missing import would cause datasource restart

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🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • Extension crashes if the task definition file doesn't declare a URI

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⚠️ Breaking changes:

  • As the extension has been redeveloped to remove the dependency on Powershell, the extension configuration options have also changed
  • This means existing configurations cannot be migrated and must be recreated
  • The manual data collection mode is no longer available

✨ New in this version:

  • All task events (from Windows Event Log) can be ingested in Dynatrace
  • Task frequency and timeout can be auto-detected for alerts
  • Logs ingested are displayed on the Task page
  • Problem details provide more detailed information about the error code

🚀 Improved in this version:

  • Tasks monitoring no longer relies on Powershell for gathering the data
  • Task information is read from the Windows event log

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🪲 Fixed in this version:

  • Failed status "1" (0x1) not handled by the extension

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