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# Watchdog for Vulnerability Response

# Watchdog for Vulnerability Response {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Australia
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* Updated March 12, 2026
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

The watchdog is used to track tables based on the conditions you specify. For example,
it can be used to log details of integration run failures in Vulnerability Response.  
You can choose to be notified about these failures. Based on this notification, you can plan the remediation. The default watchdogs are:

* Integration run failed: If the integration run State is set to Complete and Substate is set to Failed, users and user groups are notified if the condition returns a count greater than 0, that is, the integration run fails.
* Long running integrations: Script to verify if the integration run is exceeding the set time. This watchdog proactively alerts you whenever there is a delay in the completion of the integration run.
* Overlapping periodic runs: Script to check the recurring integration runs that still continue to run during their upcoming occurrence. It generates a link that contains the list of these integrations runs.
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## Watch log {#watchdog-overview__section_p3l_2fb_nsb}

The watchdog comes with a watch log, which provides a count of the number of times the
condition has been met.

## Overview dashboard {#watchdog-overview__section_kcc_ffb_nsb}

Use the Overview dashboard to monitor the watchdog for the past 30 days. You can create multiple widgets to track other watchdog topics you are monitoring.  
Starting with version 19.0 of Vulnerability Response, this dashboard is available in the New Experience UI.  
Note:  
If you are on Tokyo, you can view the dashboards in the Next Experience UI but with some functional loss.  

|-|-|
| Name | Description |
| Last 30 days WatchDog failure | All the conditions met in the past 30 days. |
[Table 1. Report]

{#watchdog-overview__id_fm5_qkw_5sb}For more information, see [Configure watchdog](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/bS_kyhZaR_0ATOpfzvGC5A "Use the watchdog configuration page to create new or update existing watchdogs with conditions that you want to specify. You can enable the notification for each watchdog, and get notified when the conditions are met.") and [Error handling for detections](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/_Y~nnfL35lRP~9Pj32fClA "Errors are logged while creating detections, or creating and updating vulnerable items, while processing the attachments. If a vulnerability integration process fails, errors are logged in the 'Vulnerability Integrations Log' tab.").