Data Collection jobs keep failing

  • Hello,

    I have set up Data Collection on my SQL 2008 server, but it has not collected any data because the collection jobs keep failing. Can anyone assist?

    For example, the SQL Agent job "collection_set_1_noncached_collect_and_upload" always fails with this message

    Executed as user: XXX\SqlAgentRun. The step did not generate any output. Process Exit Code 5.

    The step failed.

    XXX\SqlAgentRun is the NT account under which SQL Server agent runs. It is a member of XXX\Domain Users, and is a member of sysadmin.

    Thanks in advance.

  • Add an output file to the job step to get more details on the failure.

    Pradeep Adiga
    Blog: sqldbadiaries.com
    Twitter: @pradeepadiga

  • Sorry to thread-jack but I've been getting the same error message recently.

    Nothing is being written to the output file I've added.

    The Event Log isn't telling me much either

    Was running fine until about a week ago

  • Same problem. Same errors and output file is blank.

  • Does running the query inside "collection_set_1_noncached_collect_and_upload" job in SSMS complete successfully?

    Pradeep Adiga
    Blog: sqldbadiaries.com
    Twitter: @pradeepadiga

  • It seems this was a issue with SQL Server 2008 SP 1. Issue resolved after installing the Cumulative update package 10 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1.

  • Good to know that it was fixed!

    Pradeep Adiga
    Blog: sqldbadiaries.com
    Twitter: @pradeepadiga

  • I received a similiar error when the service running the data collector could not access the cache folder

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