AWS Backup Monitoring Integration

AWS Backup centralizes and automates data backup across AWS services in the cloud and on-premises. You can configure backup policies and consolidate your backup tasks with AWS Backup. Note that the AWS Backup service does not support all AWS services.

Monitor the backup and storage for your AWS resources by integrating AWS Backup with Site24x7.

Table of contents

• Use cases
• Benefits of the integration between Site24x7 and AWS Backup
• Setup and configuration
• Policies and permissions
• Polling frequency
• Supported AWS Backup metrics
• Threshold configuration
• Licensing
• Viewing AWS Backup
• AWS Backup data

Use cases

• Using AWS Backup, you can configure the backup policies and monitor the activities of your AWS resources in a unified platform. Any failures or issues that go unnoticed in the backup process can result in data loss. Consider that you have an AWS Backup monitor integrated with Site24x7. Suppose your integrated monitor is configured with the Number of Backup Jobs Failed and Number of Backup Jobs Expired metrics, then you can set a threshold limit for these metrics to receive alerts from Site24x7 during threshold breaches. Similarly, you can configure and set threshold limits for other metrics too and receive alerts for your monitored resources.
• Consider a scenario where you have a resource with a long-running backup process. Such long-running backups can delay subsequent backup processes. With the AWS Backup-Site24x7 integration, you can monitor the Backup Running Time and keep it in check to avoid critical delays in running backups.

Benefits of the integration between Site24x7 and AWS Backup

Using the integration between Site24x7 and AWS Backup, you can monitor, control, store, and organize all your resource backups.

With this integration, you can:

• View backup policies and monitor the backup jobs for all resource types, individual resource types, or backup vaults.
• Monitor the copied and restored jobs along with recovery points for resource backups, AWS backup vaults, and AWS backup resource types based on vaults.
• Track the backup running time and backup sizes for all the resource backups, AWS backup vaults, and AWS backup resource types based on vaults.

Setup and configuration

• If you haven't done it already, enable access to your AWS resource by creating a cross-account IAM role between your account and Site24x7's AWS account. Learn more.
• On the Integrate AWS Account page, please make sure AWS Backup is selected in the Services to be discovered field. Learn more.

Policies and permissions

Ensure that the following permissions are required by Site24x7 to monitor the backup of your AWS resources:

• "backup:ListCopyJobs"
• "backup:ListTags"
• "backup:ListBackupJobs"
• "backup:ListProtectedResources"
• "backup:DescribeGlobalSettings"
• "backup-gateway:ListHypervisors"
• "backup:DescribeRegionSettings"
• "backup:ListRestoreJobs"
• "backup:ListBackupVaults"
• "backup:DescribeBackupVault"
• "backup:ListBackupPlans"
• "backup-gateway:ListGateways"
• "backup-gateway:ListVirtualMachines"
• "backup:ListRecoveryPointsByBackupVault"
• "backup:GetBackupPlan"
• "backup:ListBackupSelections"

Polling frequency

Site24x7 queries CloudWatch and other AWS service-level APIs as per the set polling frequency (one minute to one day) to collect metrics from AWS Backup.

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Supported AWS Backup metrics

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Threshold configuration

To configure thresholds for your Site24x7-AWS Backup integrated monitor:

1. Log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
2. Click Add Threshold Profile.
3. Select AWS Backup or AWS Backup Vault or AWS Backup Resource Types or AWS Backup Vault Resource Types from the Monitor Type drop-down menu, and provide an appropriate name in the Display Name field.
4. The supported metrics are displayed in the Threshold Configuration section. You can set threshold values for all the metrics mentioned above.
5. Click Save.

You can also configure to receive notifications when the status of a monitored resource or a monitored Backup Resource Type changes by toggling the Notify as Trouble when a monitored resource Down/Trouble/Critical and Notify as Trouble when a Backup Resource Type is Down/Trouble/Critical options.

Licensing

Every AWS Backup monitor is considered as a basic monitor with one basic license.

Viewing AWS Backup

To view your backup of your AWS resources, log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to Cloud > AWS > AWS Backup.

Site24x7's integration with AWS Backup also provides the following three monitors:

• AWS Backup Vault: The AWS Backup Vault monitor organizes, secures, and stores all your resource backups to prevent accidental and malicious incidents. You can configure metrics to receive alerts based on vaults for automated backup failure.
• AWS Backup Resource Types: Monitor all your AWS backups for resource types such as Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), etc. with the AWS Backup Resource Types monitor. You can also view all the resource type metrics for different regions in a single dashboard and analyze the backup running time and backup sizes of your AWS backup resource types.
• AWS Backup Vault Resource Types: View and store backups taken by resource types based on the vault with the AWS Backup Vault Resource Types monitor. It monitors the copied and restored jobs along with recovery points at the AWS Backup Vault Resource Type level. Additionally, you can track the backup running time and backup sizes for your AWS backup resource types based on the vault.

AWS Backup data

You can view the backup data of your AWS resources in the following tabs:

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