https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-monitor-whether-a-file-is-created-on-a-particular-time/m-p/199027#M3235 <P>Hi,</P> <P>My requirement is to monitor a file in a Linux server which is daily created between 6:30 am and 6.40 am.</P> <P>This means, daily a new file will be generated at 06:30 am. How to monitor this using a file system monitoring extension?</P> <P> </P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Dharini</P> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:02:37 GMT dhariniu 2022-11-23T15:02:37Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-monitor-whether-a-file-is-created-on-a-particular-time/m-p/199027#M3235 <P>Hi,</P> <P>My requirement is to monitor a file in a Linux server which is daily created between 6:30 am and 6.40 am.</P> <P>This means, daily a new file will be generated at 06:30 am. How to monitor this using a file system monitoring extension?</P> <P> </P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Dharini</P> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:02:37 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-monitor-whether-a-file-is-created-on-a-particular-time/m-p/199027#M3235 dhariniu 2022-11-23T15:02:37Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-monitor-whether-a-file-is-created-on-a-particular-time/m-p/199047#M3236 <P>Hi <a href="https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/53741">@dhariniu</a> , good day.</P><P>One option is you to use the metric filechecker.files_age, to alert if file age is higher than 24h (86400 seconds).</P><P>So, if the file is not updated/created in 24h (daily) you will get an alert.</P><P>Try and let us know.</P> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:55:54 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-monitor-whether-a-file-is-created-on-a-particular-time/m-p/199047#M3236 dannemca 2022-11-23T12:55:54Z