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possible solution:

#pillar schedule returner rawfile_json

schedule:
highstate:
function: state.apply
minutes: 60
returner: rawfile_json

This will generate a file /var/log/salt/events

#nagios

nagios-check_file_content

check_file_content.pl -f /var/log/salt/events -i success -n 1

output:
OK for /var/log/salt/events (1 found)

Found some interesting documenation on how foreman solved the salt reporting:

https://theforeman.org/plugins/foreman_salt/2.0/

It seems that salt scheduling with pillar won't return it's full event report..

they mention: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/12653

in which a user scubahub proposes a solution...maybe this can help...

@tampakrap,

The latest 2017.7.0 (Nitrogen) had a new function:
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/returners/all/salt.returners.highstate_return.html#module-salt.returners.highstate_return

an example:

salt:
  minion:
    master: salt

    schedule:
      highstate:
        function: state.apply
        minutes: 60
        return_job: True
        returner: highstate
        return_kwargs:
         report_failures: true
         report_changes: true
         report_everything: false 
         report_format: html
         report_delivery: file
         file_output: /var/log/salt/highstate.html