topic Re: Process Crashd Alerting in Alerting

Process Crashed Alerting

fernandosilva — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:35:49 GMT

I would like to create an alert for when a process has crashed.
Has anyone done something similar?

Re: Process Crashd Alerting

fernandosilva — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 19:55:17 GMT

Does Process group availability monitoring and alerting work?

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/how-to-use-dynatrace/process-groups/monitoring/process-group-availability-monitoring-and-alerting/

Re: Process Crashd Alerting

ChadTurner — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 01:47:04 GMT

Yes it does, granted you need to have the following set:

And then the associated Alert Profile will trigger then trigger the alert integration and send out an alert as you have set up.

Re: Process Crashd Alerting

Randall_Howarth — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:13:32 GMT

Doesn't help in a scenario where there are multiple worker processes and we want to alert when any of the workers crash. We can see it in DT, availability does not help here. It would be nice to separate availability events caused by crashes anyway.

Re: Process Crashed Alerting

siewsphone — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:06:30 GMT

Hello,

This can be achieved with Event API, via a developed script to make an Event API call periodically and limited it to only crash events. In my environment I am monitoring a large scale of servers with more than 600 applications, most of the crashed events actually come from unimportant processes which only executed at ad hoc basis. To filter out the noise, I will proceed further to verify the crashed process uptime using the time-series CPU usage metric to filter out the false alarm.

Please refer to the attached picture below to understand how it works, hope it helps.

Re: Process Crashd Alerting

ArminHopf — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:23:21 GMT

In our use-case we have Processes which are not running all the time, to it's normal that they become "unavailable" by design.
On the Processes->RandomProcess.exe Page there is this beautiful "Events" Graph which would be nice if we could use them for custom metrics. Or from the Graph in the "Application & Microservices" - "Profiling and optimization" - "Crashes" section.

Re: Process Crashed Alerting

pedimitrov — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:11:37 GMT

Alarm threshold based on number of worker processes

Re: Process Crashed Alerting

tarjei — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:46:07 GMT

Would be nice if you could alert on the crash events, as someone here posted. Anyone been able to solve this?

Re: Process Crashed Alerting

ChadTurner — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:28:47 GMT

Can you share the event as it shows up for your crash. You can create a custom Event to trigger off an alert when a crash is reported.

We did something similar for Pods that went into a 'Killing' State.

Re: Process Crashed Alerting

Devi — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:29:46 GMT

Hi,

Kindly provide more details on leveraging Event API to address this issue. We want to send a email notification to team whenever the Process crashes.

Thanks !