https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Extensions/Ability-to-monitor-a-location-file/m-p/142187#M2357 <P>The most simplistic solution here would be to create a very simple OneAgent extension in Python that only checks for the existence of that file in the regular schedule of a minute. If the file does not exist, raise a custom trigger event of any severity level (AVAILABILITY, ERROR, SLOWDOWN, RESOURCE) which triggers a problem on the Dynatrace side. </P><P>See my simple example on GitHub that checks for a running process with a given name and raises an availability event. </P><P><A href="https://github.com/wolfgangB33r/SimpleProcessAvailabilityPlugin">https://github.com/wolfgangB33r/SimpleProcessAvailabilityPlugin</A> </P><P>You can easily modify the condition to check for file existence instead. </P><P>Best greetings,</P><P>Wolfgang</P><BR /> Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:22:17 GMT wolfgang_beer 2019-07-01T10:22:17Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Extensions/Ability-to-monitor-a-location-file/m-p/142186#M2356 <P>We have a requirement to monitor an internal Location\File and alert if the file doesn't exist.</P><P>This would then enable the Financial Support team to see when file copies have failed.</P><BR /> Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:26:52 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Extensions/Ability-to-monitor-a-location-file/m-p/142186#M2356 rob_gallop 2019-07-01T09:26:52Z https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Extensions/Ability-to-monitor-a-location-file/m-p/142187#M2357 <P>The most simplistic solution here would be to create a very simple OneAgent extension in Python that only checks for the existence of that file in the regular schedule of a minute. If the file does not exist, raise a custom trigger event of any severity level (AVAILABILITY, ERROR, SLOWDOWN, RESOURCE) which triggers a problem on the Dynatrace side. </P><P>See my simple example on GitHub that checks for a running process with a given name and raises an availability event. </P><P><A href="https://github.com/wolfgangB33r/SimpleProcessAvailabilityPlugin">https://github.com/wolfgangB33r/SimpleProcessAvailabilityPlugin</A> </P><P>You can easily modify the condition to check for file existence instead. </P><P>Best greetings,</P><P>Wolfgang</P><BR /> Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:22:17 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Extensions/Ability-to-monitor-a-location-file/m-p/142187#M2357 wolfgang_beer 2019-07-01T10:22:17Z