The duration is not exposed, however the start date/time is available under the crawl source property "CrawlStarted". With this, we can use the Get-Date cmdlet to get the current date/time and subtract the CrawlStarted date/time to find the duration. The following PowerShell can be used to print the duration to the console. Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell $sources = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service" ForEach ($source in $sources) { if ($source.CrawlStatus -ne "Idle") { Write-Host ((Get-Date) - $source.CrawlStarted) } } To address your question of finding previous crawl logs and sending an alert if the crawl took over 3 hours, please try the script below. It will write an alert to the console if the last crawl for any content source took over 3 hours. Please modify to suit your exact requirements. Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell $ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "Search Service" } $sources = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication $ssa ForEach ($source in $sources) { $log = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CrawlLog $ssa $last = $log.GetCrawlHistory(1, $source.Id)[0] if ($last.CrawlDuration.Hours -ge 3) { Write-Host "Content Source $($source.Name): last crawl took over 3 hours!" } }