The Failed Scheduler Jobs alert notifies you when its configured condition is met on Oracle instances so you can investigate and respond.
Mini DBA describes this alert as: Oracle Scheduler jobs that failed in the last hour Like SQL Server Agent jobs - critical for maintenance tasks, data loads/ETL, and backup operations Remediation: Check DBA_SCHEDULER_JOB_RUN_DETAILS for error details and fix job issues Mini DBA evaluates this alert once a minute so changes are detected quickly.
This alert protects operational visibility. It warns when automation or notification paths fail, which can otherwise hide the real incident until a user reports a problem.
Enable it on any monitored Oracle instance where this condition would require an administrator to investigate or communicate with the application team. Tune noisy development systems after you have a short baseline.
Threshold meaning: Failed jobs. Major threshold: 3 jobs. Minor threshold: 1 jobs. Comparison direction: over. For an over-threshold alert, decreasing a threshold makes that severity fire sooner; increasing it tolerates more load or pressure. Set the minor threshold as an early-warning level and the major threshold at the highest acceptable value for the service.
Check the failed job or notification target, verify credentials and network access, correct the schedule or destination, and send a test notification so the monitoring path is proven before closing the incident.
If the alert creates repeated noise, review whether it is enabled on the correct instances, whether maintenance windows are configured, and whether the minor and major routes match the real business impact. Keep enough history to prove the new setting before changing it broadly.