AWS Backup metrics with Amazon CloudWatch
CloudWatch Dashboard
The console dashboard depends on which Region is accessing the console. SeeFeature availability by AWS Region to see which Regions have access to the Jobs dashboard. Regions not listed will be able to access the CloudWatch dashboard.
Your AWS Backup console includes a dashboard to see metrics on completed or failed backup, copy, and restore jobs. Within this dashboard, you can view job status by time period, customized to the time frame you desire.
TO ACCESS THE DASHBOARD
Open the AWS Backup console athttps://console.aws.amazon.com/backup.
SelectDashboard in the left-hand navigation pane.
VIEW AND UNDERSTAND THE DASHBOARD
The CloudWatch dashboard displays several widgets. Each widget shows job metrics by count. Each widget shows several line graphs. Each line corresponds to a protected resource (if you do not see an expected resource displayed, ensure the resource is turned on inSettings). The displays do not show in-progress jobs.
The y-axis (vertical values) shows the count. The x-axis (horizontal values) shows points in time. If there are no data points to visualize in the selected job status, the value will be set to 0 with a horizontal line on the x-axis. The legend showing the resources will still be visible.
The metrics display account-specific and Region-specific information related to the current login. To see other accounts or Regions, you must login under the chosen account.
CUSTOMIZE THE DASHBOARD
By default, the displayed time frame is one week. Along the top menu, there are options for redefining the displayed time frame. You can choose from among 1 hour, 3 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 3 days, and 1 week. Additionally, you can selectCustom to specify a different value. Customization will temporarily change the current view to your specifications.
You can hover over a widget, which will display aEnlarge button in the top right of the widget. Click onEnlarge to open the widget in full-screen view. In full screen, there are more options for customizing the graph display, such as changing the period (the time between every data point). Any changes will not be retained once the full-screen view is closed.
To view only one resource type at a time, click on the label text of the resource type you wish to view in the graph legend. This will deselect other all resource types. To reverse this, click on a resource type color box in the legend. To go back to default view of all resource types with all the labels selected, click again on the label text of any resource type selected.
Clicking the three vertical dots in the top right corner of a widgets opens up a drop down menu with options to refresh, enlarge, view in metrics and view in logs. “View in metrics” opens up the metric used in the widget in CloudWatch console. You can make any changes to the widget there and add the widget to a custom dashboard in CloudWatch dashboard. Any changes you make in the CloudWatch dashboard will not be reflected on the dashboard in AWS Backup Console. “View as logs” opens up the logs view page in CloudWatch console.
To add widgets displayed to your own custom CloudWatch dashboard, click on theAdd to dashboard button located on the top right of the dashboard. This will open up the CloudWatch console where you can select in which custom dashboard to add all the six widgets.
For more information, see Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics.
Metrics with CloudWatch
You can use CloudWatch to monitor AWS Backup metrics. TheAWS/Backup namespace allows you to track the following metrics. AWS Backup emits updated metrics to CloudWatch every 5 minutes.
The purpose of this documentation page is to provide you with the reference materials to use CloudWatch to monitor AWS Backup. To learn how to monitor a metric using CloudWatch, see the blogAmazon CloudWatch Events and Metrics for AWS Backup orFocus on Metrics and Alarms in a Single AWS Service in theCloudWatch User Guide. To set alarms, seeUsing Amazon CloudWatch Alarms in theCloudWatch User Guide.
| Category | Metrics | Example dimensions | Example use case |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobs | Number of backup, restore, and copy jobs across each state, including Different job types have different available states. | Resource type, vault name. The vault name of copy jobs is that of their destination vault. | Monitor the number of failed backup jobs within one or more specific backup vaults. When there are more than five failed jobs within 1 hour, send an email or SMS using Amazon SNS or open a ticket to the engineering team to investigate. Reporting criteria: There is a nonzero value |
| Recovery points | Number of warm and cold recovery points across each state:MODIFIED,COMPLETED,PARTIAL,EXPIRED,DELETED. | Resource type, vault name. | Track the number of deleted recovery points for your Amazon EBS volumes, and separately track the number of warm and cold recovery points in each backup vault. Reporting criteria: There is a nonzero value |
The job status ofCompleted with issues is specific to only the AWS Backup console; it cannot be tracked via CloudWatch.
The following table lists all the metrics available to you.
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
NumberOfBackupJobsCreated | The number of backup jobs that AWS Backup created. |
NumberOfBackupJobsPending | The number of backup jobs about to run in AWS Backup. |
NumberOfBackupJobsRunning | The number of backup jobs currently running in AWS Backup. |
NumberOfBackupJobsAborted | The number of user cancelled backup jobs. |
NumberOfBackupJobsCompleted | The number of backup jobs that AWS Backup finished. |
NumberOfBackupJobsFailed | The number of backup jobs with status ofFailed. Often caused by scheduling a backup job during or 1 hour before a database resource or 4 hours before or during a Amazon FSx maintenance window or automated backup window and not using AWS Backup to perform continuous backup for point-in-time restores. SeePoint-in-Time Recovery for a list of supported services and instructions on how to use AWS Backup to take continuous backups, or reschedule your backup jobs. |
NumberOfBackupJobsExpired | The number of backup jobs that have a status of A backup job changes from status |
NumberOfCopyJobsCreated | The number of cross-account and cross-Region copy jobs that AWS Backup created. |
NumberOfCopyJobsRunning | The number of cross-account and cross-Region copy jobs currently running in AWS Backup. |
NumberOfCopyJobsCompleted | The number of cross-account and cross-Region copy jobs that AWS Backup finished. |
NumberOfCopyJobsFailed | The number of cross-account and cross-Region copy jobs that AWS Backup attempted but could not complete. |
NumberOfRestoreJobsPending | The number of restore jobs about to run in AWS Backup. |
NumberOfRestoreJobsRunning | The number of restore jobs currently running in AWS Backup. |
NumberOfRestoreJobsCompleted | The number of restore jobs that AWS Backup finished. |
NumberOfRestoreJobsFailed | The number of restore jobs that AWS Backup attempted but could not complete. |
NumberOfRecoveryPointsCompleted | The number of recovery points that AWS Backup created. |
NumberOfRecoveryPointsPartial | The number of recovery points that AWS Backup started to create but could not finish. AWS retries the process later, but because the retry occurs at the later time, it retains the partial recovery point. |
NumberOfRecoveryPointsExpired | The number of recovery points that AWS Backup attempted to delete based on your backup retention lifecycle, but could not delete. You are billed for the storage that expired backups consume and should delete them manually. |
NumberOfRecoveryPointsDeleting | The number of recovery points that AWS Backup is deleting. |
NumberOfRecoveryPointsCold | The number of recovery points that AWS Backup tiered to cold storage. |
More dimensions are available beyond those listed in the table. To view all the dimensions of a metric, type the name of that metric into theAWS/Backup namespace of theMetrics section of the CloudWatch console.
