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Microsoft Azure Backup Vault/Recovery Service Vault


Microsoft Azure Backup Vault/Recovery Service Vault - An Overview

Microsoft Azure Backup Vault is a storage entity in Azure that is used to hold backup data for various Azure resources such as virtual machines (VMs), databases, and file shares. It centralizes backup management and provides secure, reliable, and scalable storage for long-term data retention, disaster recovery, and data protection.

Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Vault is a storage entity in Azure designed for managing and storing recovery points created by Azure Backup and Site Recovery services. It provides comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring that your data and applications are protected and can be restored quickly in case of data loss or outages.

An Azure Backup Vault monitoring tool / Azure Recovery Service Vault monitoring tool is crucial to experience the platform at it's highest potential. Use Applications Manager to maintain your vault's health, performance, and reliability.

Creating a new Microsoft Azure Backup Vault/Recovery Service Vault Monitor

To learn how to create a new Microsoft Azure Backup Vault/Recovery Service Vault monitor, click here.

Monitored Parameters

Navigate to the Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Hover over 'Child Monitors' under Microsoft Azure in the Cloud Apps table, and then select the Backup Vaults (or) Recovery Service Vaults  monitor from the displayed tooltip. This action will display the bulk configuration view for Azure Backup Vault/Azure Recovery Service in three tabs:

  • Availability tab gives the Availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
  • Performance tab gives the Health Status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
  • List view enables you to perform bulk admin configurations.

The Microsoft Azure monitor provides a brief detail of the Azure Backup Vault/Azure Recovery Service Vault under the given subscription. Following are the list of metrics monitored in Azure Backup Vault monitoring tool/Azure Recovery Service Vault monitoring tool in their corresponding tabs:

Note:
  • Azure Backup Vault/Recovery Service Vault monitoring is only supported for Azure Global accounts.
  • The metrics under the Backup and Site Recovery tabs are only supported for the Azure Recovery Service Vault monitor.

Performance Overview

Parameter Description
INVENTORY
Registered Servers The total number of registered servers.

Note: Only supported for the Azure Recovery Service Vault monitor.

Events The total number of events.

Note: Only supported for the Azure Recovery Service Vault monitor.

BACKUP EVENT STATISTICS
Backup Success Rate The percentage of successful backup events that occurred in the vault between the poll interval (in %).
Backup Failure Rate The percentage of failed backup events that occurred in the vault between the poll interval (in %).
RESTORE EVENT STATISTICS
Restore Success Rate The percentage of successful restore events that occurred in the vault between the poll interval (in %).
Restore Failure Rate The percentage of failed restore events that occurred in the vault between the poll interval (in %).
BACKUP HEALTHY EVENTS
Backup Healthy Event Rate The number of health events (Healthy) created per minute by the vault pertaining to the backup job health, between the poll interval (in events/min).
Backup Healthy Events The number of health events (Healthy) created by the vault pertaining to the backup job health, between the poll interval.
RESTORE HEALTHY EVENTS
Restore Healthy Event Rate The number of health events (Healthy) created per minute by the vault pertaining to the restore job health, between the poll interval (in events/min).
Restore Healthy Events The number of health events (Healthy) created by the vault pertaining to the restore job health, between the poll interval.
BACKUP TRANSIENT UNHEALTHY EVENTS
Backup Transient Unhealthy Events The number of health events (Transient Unhealthy) created by the vault pertaining to the backup job health, between the poll interval.
RESTORE TRANSIENT UNHEALTHY EVENTS
Restore Transient Unhealthy Events The number of health events (Transient Unhealthy) created by the vault pertaining to the restore job health, between the poll interval.
BACKUP PERSISTENT UNHEALTHY EVENTS
Backup Persistent Unhealthy Events The number of health events (Persistent Unhealthy) created by the vault pertaining to the backup job health, between the poll interval.
RESTORE PERSISTENT UNHEALTHY EVENTS
Restore Persistent Unhealthy Events The number of health events (Persistent Unhealthy) created by the vault pertaining to the restore job health, between the poll interval.
BACKUP TRANSIENT DEGRADED EVENTS
Backup Transient Degraded Events The number of health events (Transient Degraded) created by the vault pertaining to the backup job health, between the poll interval.
RESTORE TRANSIENT DEGRADED EVENTS
Restore Transient Degraded Events The number of health events (Transient Degraded) created by the vault pertaining to the restore job health, between the poll interval.
BACKUP PERSISTENT DEGRADED EVENTS
Backup Persistent Degraded Events The number of health events (Persistent Degraded) created by the vault pertaining to the backup job health, between the poll interval.
RESTORE PERSISTENT DEGRADED EVENTS
Restore Persistent Degraded Events The number of health events (Persistent Degraded) created by the vault pertaining to the restore job health, between the poll interval.

Backup

Parameter Description
BACKUP ENGINES DISK USAGE
Backup Engines Disk Used The total usage of the backup engine disk memory (in MB).
BACKUP ITEMS
Backup Items The total number of items backed up.
BACKUP JOBS
Backup Jobs - In Progress The total number of backup jobs in progress.
Backup Jobs - Failed The total number of failed backup jobs.
BACKUP STORAGE
Backup Storage Cloud - LRS The total amount of locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the cloud (in GiB).
Backup Storage Cloud - GRS The total amount of geo-redundant storage (GRS) in the cloud (in GiB).
Backup Storage Cloud - ZRS The total amount of zone-redundant storage (ZRS) in the cloud (in GiB).
Backup Storage Cloud - RAGRS The total amount of read-access geo-redundant storage (RAGRS) in the cloud (in GiB).
Backup Storage Archive - LRS The total amount of LRS in the archive (in GiB).
Backup Storage Archive - GRS The total amount of GRS in the archive (in GiB).
BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE
Backup File - Folders The total number of file-folders.
Backup Management Servers The total number of backup management servers.
Backup Server Protected Items The total number of Azure backup server protected items.
Backup DPM Protected Items The total number of Data Protection Manager (DPM) protected items.
Backup Critical Servers The total number of servers with critical health.
Backup Deprecated Servers The total number of deprecated servers.
Backup Unsupported Servers The total number of unsupported servers.
Backup Supported Servers The total number of supported servers.
Backup Jobs
Workload Name The name of the workload.
Operation The backup operation performed.
Job Status The status of the backup job.
Job Type The type of the backup job performed.
Start Time The start time of the backup job.
End Time The end time of the backup job.
Total Duration Total time taken for the job (in min).
 
Note:
  • The Backup Jobs metrics are categorized under Performance Polling. To modify the polling interval, go to Settings → Performance Polling. In the Optimize Data Collection tab, select Azure Recovery Service Vault as the Monitor Type and Backup Jobs as the Metric Name. Choose 'Configure a custom interval' and set the polling interval to at least 4 hours. If the 'Collect data at customized time interval' is set to more than 24 hours, the top high-severity Backup Jobs performed in the last 24 hours will be fetched.
  • By default, the Backup Jobs table displays the top 200 high-severity jobs based on status. To adjust the number of top jobs displayed, navigate to Settings → Performance Polling. In the Optimize Data Collection tab, select Azure Recovery Service Vault as the Monitor Type and Performance as the Metric Name. Then, set the Number of Jobs to Fetch within the range of 50 to 500 as needed.

Site Recovery

Parameter Description
SITE RECOVERY INVENTORY
Site Recovery Plans The total number of recovery plans.
Replicated Items The total number of replicated items.
Protected Instances The total number of protected instances.
Replicating Protected Items The total number of replicating protected items.
Protected Items - Initial Replication in Progress The total number of protected items in progress for initial replication.
SITE RECOVERY JOBS
Site Recovery Jobs - In Progress The total number of site recovery jobs that are in progress.
Site Recovery Jobs - Failed The total number of failed site recovery jobs.
Site Recovery Jobs - Waiting for Input The total number of jobs that require user input.
REPLICATED ITEMS HEALTH
Replicated Items - Critical The total number of replicated items in the critical state.
Replicated Items - Warning The total number of replicated items in the warning state.
Replicated Items - Neutral The total number of replicated items in the neutral state.
REPLICATED ITEMS FAILOVER STATUS
Replicated Items Failover Status - Critical The total number of replicated items with failover critical.
Replicated Items Failover Status - Warning The total number of replicated items with failover warning.
REPLICATED ITEMS TEST FAILOVER HEALTH
Replicated Items Test Failover Health - In Progress The total number of test failover in progress for protected items.
Replicated Items Test Failover Health - Waiting The total number of test failover waiting for protected items.
Replicated Items Test Failover Health - Applicable The total number of test failover applicable for protected items.
REPLICATED ITEMS CONFIGURATION HEALTH
Replicated Items Configuration Health - Critical The total number of replicated items with configuration status critical.
Replicated Items Configuration Health - Warning The total number of replicated items with configuration status warning.

Configuration

ParameterDescription
Vault Type
Backup Vault
Recovery Service Vault
CONFIGURATION
Resource Group Name The name of the resource group.
Location The location of the Vault.
Provisioning State Provisioning state of the Vault.
Possible values: Failed/Provisioning/Succeeded/Unknown/Updating.
SKU Name The SKU Name of the vault.
SKU Tier The SKU Tier of the Vault.
Public Network Access Property to enable or disable the Vault provider inbound network traffic from public clients.
Possible values: Enabled/Disabled.
Security Level The secure score of the Vault.
Possible values: None/Minimum/Maximum/Adequate.
Backup Storage Version The backup storage version.
Possible values: Unassigned/V1/V2.
SECURITY SETTINGS
Immutability The immutability state of vault. Possible values:
  • For Backup Vault: Enabled/Disabled
  • For Recovery Service Vault: Enabled/Locked/Unlocked
Soft Delete The soft delete state of vault. Possible values:
  • For Backup Vaults: AlwaysOn/Off/On
  • For Recovery Service Vaults: AlwaysON/Disabled/Enabled/Invalid
Soft Delete Retention Days The Soft delete retention period in days.
Cross Subscription Restore The state Cross Subscription Restore.
Possible values: Enabled/Disabled/PermanentlyDisabled.
Vault Protected by Resource Guard Indicates whether the vault is protected by resource guard. Possible values: Yes/No.
Enhanced Security State The state of the enhanced security.
Multi-User Authorization The MUA Settings of the vault.
Possible values: Enabled/Disabled/Invalid.

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