name: Windows Updates Install Failures id: 6a4dbd1b-4502-4a11-943a-82b5ae7a42d7 version: 1 date: '2017-09-14' 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. how_to_implement: You must be ingesting your Windows Update Logs author: David Dorsey, Splunk 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' tags: {}