File & folder monitoring

Watch specific files (modified time, existence) or folder contents (count, total size). Useful for backup verification, log-rotation health, and "did the export run?" pipelines.

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Folder contents (count + size)

Counts files in a folder and reports total size, plus the size of the largest file. Useful for catching backup-folder bloat or pipelines that stopped pruning old data.

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Multiple files + drive health

Reports the age of several named files at once plus the OS drive's free percentage. Pair with multiple capture.value checks — one per JSON path.

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Newest backup file freshness

Finds the newest file matching a pattern (e.g. *.bak) in a folder and reports its age in seconds. Common pattern for 'did last night's SQL backup actually run?'.

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Single file freshness

Posts the age (in seconds) of one file. Alerts if it's missing or hasn't been updated recently — handy for log files, generated reports, or backup .bak files.

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SQL Server backup age (per database)

Queries msdb.dbo.backupset on a SQL Server instance and reports the age in seconds of each user database's most recent FULL backup. Plus the worst-age across all dbs for a single capture.value check that covers the whole instance.