No e-mail notification for failed backup

Question

Hi,

I would love to receive e-mail notifications for failed backup jobs. (VMs are backed up in Recovery Services Vault).

In order to achieve that; I configured following:

Alert processing rule:

• Scope: Subscription
• Filter: Resource Type equals Recovery Services Vaults
• Rule settings: Apply action group (Action group is also created and tested, e-mails are received when clicked on "Test Action Group")
• Scheduling: Always
• Details: Enabled (box is checked)

I wanted to simulated failed backup job.

In order to do that; I manually triggered backup job twice at the same time for the same VM (on-demand backup)

First one is sucesfully completed, but for second one status is: Failed (which is expected when triggering twice; on demand).

I thought that this will trigger e-mail notification for failed backup job.

But nothing has been received.

Can you please help me with this ?

Thank you

Answer 1

Hello Vedran,

After having a discussion on the above issue and tried many resolving techniques, glad that the issue is resolved as expected using Azure CLI method. I am summarizing the steps below to create or configure alert processing rules properly without any conflict. Using az monitor alert-processing-rule create CLI command resolved the issue in your scenario and the detailed command has given below.

az monitor alert-processing-rule create --name 'AddActionGroupTosub' \
--rule-type AddActionGroups \
--scopes "/subscriptions/subscriptionID" \
--action-groups "/subscriptions/subscriptionID/resourceGroups/resourceGroupName/providers/Microsoft.Insights/actiongroups/ActionGroupName" \
--resource-group LogAnalyticsDefaultResources \
--description "xxxxx"

I have tried the same execution in my environment and was able to create an alert processing rule successfully.

Hope this helps!

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Answer 2

Please take a look to this documentation may be you might find a soluction following this step by step, if not let us know if you did everything following that

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-monitor-alerts-notification

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