Easiest way to tell if a Job has failed

Apologies if this is the wrong subject but I couldn't figure out which one covered my issue.
We had a SQL Server failover to another server in the cluster. At the time, it was running a Job that has a single call to an SSIS package. That SSIS package calls a number of other packages and takes around 25 to 30 minutes to run all the way through.
Because of that failover, the job was killed. There's no record in the Job log that it ran at all. I've always assumed that this is because the job is not actually logged until the first step finishes, whether it fails or not.
Now, due to a problem in my design of this job, the fact it ran another morning before anyone came to me to ask for help, I've got a lot of tidying up to do. And to make the job more resilient.
But that aside, is there any way to force it to log job starts so that the app support people will have a visual clue that all is not right when they view the Job Activity Monitor? Or do I have to code something myself around checking the SSIS logs I write?
Nick Ryan SQL Server Developer OnePath (NZ) Ltd

Thanks for sharing details with me!!
Might be somewhere we may need some more clarity, so please let me say one more time what I tried to mention.
I see point that I was trying to say is from your line:
There was a suggestion I might be able to put some custom code in there that logs the start of the package. I'm not sure if that was suggesting I actually update the log that the Job Activity Monitor displays - that sounds a little dangerous but would be
ideal if it could be done.
As per my previous exe. when I was working for one of my client and they wanted to track each and every logging for everybody activities then they used to create such logging process by designing their own code and table structure and others and that worked
for them as well. We just need to validate it properly. This can be implemented using so many better applicable dmvs to access multiple queries access and execution state.
I Agree with you:
"When the SQL Server fails over in the middle of the ETL job, obviously the email part is not going to work."
However if you enable the Sql Server Agent Services restart option in job, then each service restart will also alert you and then you can map all these small small information from multiple sources and make sense about what might went wrong by putting these
events logically into statements.
I mean customized solutions are always for us apart from Sql Server Jobs execution logging support.
Also If Team is not ready to cross the jobs monitor and check jobs log files then only process enforcement with proper benefits may help us.
Thanks for allowing me to explain one more time.
Santosh Singh

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