Send an alert to notify ssrs report rendering is failed

Question

Hi Friends,
I have one small requirement.
When ever the report fails in rendering time or report is not working(due to some data issues), I have to
send an alert to notify people this report is rendering failed or report is throwing some error.
How can I do that, please help me on this..

Answer 1

Hi Priya,
SSRS unfortunately doesn't give much automatic altering when reports fail (for whatever reason).  There is however a good logging table you can use.  I use the below query to monitor failed subscription, however you easily modify it to find any
failures:
SELECT
c.Name AS [ReportName],
sb.[Description] AS [SubscriptionDescription],
sb.DeliveryExtension AS [DeliveryType],
sb.LastStatus AS [LastRunStatus],
sb.LastRunTime AS [LastRunTime],
c.Path AS [ReportPath],
'http://YourSSRSServer/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath='+REPLACE(REPLACE(C.[Path],'/','%2f'),' ','+')+'&SelectedTabId=PropertiesTab&ViewMode=List&SelectedSubTabId=SubscriptionsTab' AS [SubscriptionLink],
sc.ScheduleID AS [SQLAgentJobName],
sb.SubscriptionID
FROM
ReportServer.dbo.ReportSchedule AS RS
INNER JOIN ReportServer.dbo.Schedule sc ON rs.ScheduleID = sc.ScheduleID
INNER JOIN ReportServer.dbo.Subscriptions sb ON rs.SubscriptionID = sb.SubscriptionID
INNER JOIN ReportServer.dbo.[Catalog] c ON rs.ReportID = c.ItemID AND sb.Report_OID = c.ItemID
WHERE
(sb.LastStatus LIKE 'Failure%' OR sb.LastStatus LIKE 'Error%' OR sb.LastStatus LIKE '%not valid%')
Once I find failures I send an email and enter them into a table (so I can monitor over time with another SSRS report).
Thanks,
UnoT