name: Windows Updates Install Failures
id: 6a4dbd1b-4502-4a11-943a-82b5ae7a42d7
version: 1
date: '2017-09-14'
author: David Dorsey, Splunk
type: Baseline
datamodel: []
description: This search is intended to give you a feel for how often Windows updates
  fail to install in your environment. Fluctuations in these numbers will allow you
  to determine when you should be concerned.
search: '| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` dc(Updates.dest) as count FROM
  datamodel=Updates where Updates.vendor_product="Microsoft Windows" AND Updates.status=failure
  by _time span=1d'
how_to_implement: You must be ingesting your Windows Update Logs
known_false_positives: none
references: []
tags:
  analytic_story:
  - Monitor for Updates
  detections:
  - No Windows Updates in a time frame
  product:
  - Splunk Enterprise
  - Splunk Enterprise Security
  - Splunk Cloud
  required_fields:
  - _time
  - Updates.vendor_product
  - Updates.status
  security_domain: endpoint