Sql-server – Send Email when sql server agent job fails

The quickest solution I can think of would be to create on your specific table an after insert trigger where, based on your conditions (the error no..etc), you'd call the system procedure msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail to send a custom email.

You'd have first to configure the mail (create a profile and test it). I don't really think there's a simpler way.

I think that you could create an alert based on a custom error number. But this means that you'll have to modify your current code that inserts data in that table to throw this custom error no, to be able to see the alert.

Something you might do that is just a thought, throwing ideas out...

Create a single job that periodically checks the job table in msdb to see if any jobs show as failed, that can be done with a good T-SQL query. Then you could go into the sysjobsteps table and see if an output log is set for the job. Have a stored procedure send an email attaching that file to it. You would be able to see exactly what the job did from beginning to failure without having to touch the server.

Then could also have PowerShell script check the event log for errors. It allows you to filter down a pretty good bit to get exactly what message types you are looking for. You could set that up as a SQL Agent job to run periodically. Then in the PowerShell script use the email cmdlet to send the message if it finds one.

Far fetched ideas here, just some I thought about.