You can give your users rights to check if reports have run or jobs are complete without granting full admin rights. Here's how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server.

You can run an SQL Agent job schedule query that tells you what jobs are scheduled to run on an SQL Server system equipped with SQL Server Agent. To do so, ...

If you've worked with the SQL Server Agent to run jobs on your server, you already know that whenever you define a job step, you have to define a job step "type." In SQL Server 2008 and newer ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals ...