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Aws Ali Obeidat
Aws Ali Obeidat

Reputation: 25

How to monitor a log file and send an alert if it stopped?

Is there a way to monitor a log file and send an alert(email) if the file stopped writing new lines ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1006

Answers (2)

Ajay Pawar
Ajay Pawar

Reputation: 319

below is the powershell script to achieve required result. Once script is executed Code will get executed every five minutes unless powershell window is closed, no need to schedule script in task scheduler.

$LogFile = "C:\logs\mylogFile.log"
while($true)
{
    $LastWriteTime = (Get-ChildITem $LogFile).LastWriteTime
    $CurrentTime = Get-Date
    $Diff = (New-TimeSpan -Start $LastWriteTime -End $CurrentTime).TotalMinutes
    If($Diff -gt 5)
    {
        #Send Email Alert if file not written from last 5 minutes or Alert That you want
    }

    sleep -Seconds (60*5)
}

Upvotes: 1

daniel
daniel

Reputation: 132

You can use a timer instance like Timer from .NET and on the timer handler check the last modified date of your file. You can get the last modified date of a file using System.IO.File.GetLastWriteTime from .NET. If the last modified date is old enough then you can send the alert.

Upvotes: 0

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