Monitor Duplicati in Windows using Event Logs

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If Duplicati is run as an administrative level account, then when executed, this should leave Windows Event log entries that monitoring software can usually pick up:
%ScriptPath%\Duplicati_Pre.cmd:

REM Create Running Status
EVENTCREATE /T INFORMATION /L APPLICATION /SO Duplicati /ID 205 /D "%DUPLICATI__BACKUP_NAME% - Starting Duplicati Backup Job"

%ScriptPath%\Duplicati_Post.cmd:

REM Create Result Status from Parsed Results

SET DSTATUS=%DUPLICATI__PARSED_RESULT%
If %DSTATUS%==Fatal GOTO DSError
If %DSTATUS%==Error GOTO DSError
If %DSTATUS%==Unknown GOTO DSWarning
If %DSTATUS%==Warning GOTO DSWarning
If %DSTATUS%==Success GOTO DSSuccess
GOTO END

:DSError
EVENTCREATE /T ERROR /L APPLICATION /SO Duplicati /ID 202 /D "%DUPLICATI__BACKUP_NAME% - Error running Duplicati Backup Job"
GOTO END

:DSWarning
EVENTCREATE /T WARNING /L APPLICATION /SO Duplicati /ID 201 /D "%DUPLICATI__BACKUP_NAME% - Warning running Duplicati Backup Job"
GOTO END

:DSSuccess
EVENTCREATE /T SUCCESS /L APPLICATION /SO Duplicati /ID 200 /D "%DUPLICATI__BACKUP_NAME% - Success in running Duplicati Backup Job"
GOTO END

:END
SET DSTATUS=

In the Settings page. on the “Add advanced option”
I selected “run-script-after” and “run-script-before” Both with the full drive and path "C:\PathToScripts\Duplicati_Post.cmd" & "C:\PathToScripts\Duplicati_Pre.cmd" respectively

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p.s. Thanks to JonMikeIV for helping me format this to be easier to read.

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