AWS Backup console dashboards
The jobs dashboard is available in all Regions where AWS Backup Audit Manager is supported. SeeFeature availability by AWS Region for those Regions. All other Regions will be able to access theCloudWatch Dashboard.
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Backup dashboards overview
AWS Backup provides a Jobs dashboard in the console to help you monitor the health of your backup, copy, and restore jobs. The same data that is visually displayed in the console can be retrieved in the command line through AWS CLI.
The jobs dashboard can be used to identify issues with backup, copy, and restore jobs through organization level or member account monitoring. With this information, you can identify and diagnose events and possible issues to help ensure fidelity in your activities.
The jobs dashboard can display two timeframes. By default, data from the latest 14 days are displayed, but you can change the view to show the latest 7 days. If you change the timeframe, the data will update to reflect to new time interval.
Note the dashboard displays data until the most recent 0:00 UTC; that is, the current day's data is not included. The dashboard updates daily during approximately 1:30 - 2:30 UTC.
Viewing the jobs dashboard
To view the jobs dashboard,log into the AWS Backup console and selectJobs dashboards in the left navigation bar.
On the jobs dashboard page, you can select from the backup, copy, or restore jobs tab.
The jobs dashboard overview displays the aggregated view over the specified timeframe for job activity, including completed, completed with issues, expired, and failed jobs. By default, data from the latest 14 days are displayed, but you can change the view to show 7 days.
Completed with issues is a status of a job displayed in the console that denotes a completed job with a status message.
Job health
The line chart displays the successful and unsuccessful jobs rate lines over time. The successful rate line shows an aggregation of completed and completed with issues jobs. The unsuccessful rate line shows the sum of failed and expired jobs according to the specified time range.
Jobs in a non-completed or non-failed state (jobs with a status of created, pending, running, aborted, aborting, or partial) are not included; percentage totals may not equal 100%.
Job status over time
With the bar chart, you can generate a custom bar chart that shows the number of jobs in each category (Completed, Complete with issues, Failed, and Expired), distributed by days.
With the dropdown menus, choose the status(es), resource types, and AWS Regions you want to see in the chart. If you want to explore your selection further, selectView jobs to see a pre-filtered portion of the jobs/cross-account monitoring page.
You can hover the mouse over a bar to display a popover that shows detailed job data for the selected date.
Problematic jobs
Aproblematic job is a job that has the status Failed, Expired, or Completed with issues. Each chart displays the corresponding metric that contains either the accounts, resource types, or top reasons that contain the highest number of problematic jobs.
The default display sorts the dashboard widget by the specified metric in descending order, starting with the metric with the highest number of problematic jobs that belong to the metric.
The top problematic accounts display will only be visible in accounts that have access through Organizations, such as administrative accounts and delegated administrator accounts. If visible, you can hover over an account to display the number of problematic jobs that belong to the chosen account.
You can select a bar within the graph to open a popup window. In this window, you can select a job status to open a jobs/cross-account monitoring table filtered by the status selected.
Reasons for problematic jobs
TheTop problematic reasons widget shows the message code category to which error messages belong. However, the category might not explain the issues a job experiences. Expand the message code categories below to see more details about the specific messages or errors your jobs could be encountering.
Obtaining dashboard data through AWS CLI
You can use the command line to retrieve the same data which appears in the console. Use one of the following CLI commands:
There are the valid parameters you can include in each command:
BackupJobSummaries (list) Region (string), Account (string), State (string), ResourceType (string), MessageCategory (string),AggregationPeriod: (string),NextToken (string), MaxResults (number)CopyJobSummaries (list) Region (string), Account (string), State (string), ResourceType (string), MessageCategory (string),AggregationPeriod: (string),NextToken (string), MaxResults (number)RestoreJobSummaries (list) Region (string), Account (string), State (string), ResourceType (string),AggregationPeriod: (string),NextToken (string)This example shows a sample request where the a user has inputlist-backup-job-summaries where the request asks to return all available accounts with a state ofFAILED over the prior 14 days:
GET /audit/backup-job-summaries/ ?accountId=ANY &state=FAILED &aggregationPeriod=FOURTEEN_DAYSTo obtain a job count for jobs with a status ofcompleted with issues, subtract the job count ofCOMPLETED jobs with aMessageCategory ofSUCCESS from the total number ofCOMPLETED.
