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Azure Backup monitoring data reference

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  • 03/31/2025

This article contains all the monitoring reference information for this service.

See Monitor Azure Backup for details on the data you can collect for Azure Backup and how to use it.

Metrics

This section lists all the automatically collected platform metrics for this service. These metrics are also part of the global list of all platform metrics supported in Azure Monitor.

For information on metric retention, see Azure Monitor Metrics overview.

Supported metrics for Microsoft.DataProtection/BackupVaults

The following table lists the metrics available for the Microsoft.DataProtection/BackupVaults resource type.

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Table headings

  • Category - The metrics group or classification.
  • Metric - The metric display name as it appears in the Azure portal.
  • Name in REST API - The metric name as referred to in the REST API.
  • Unit - Unit of measure.
  • Aggregation - The default aggregation type. Valid values: Average (Avg), Minimum (Min), Maximum (Max), Total (Sum), Count.
  • Dimensions - Dimensions available for the metric.
  • Time Grains - Intervals at which the metric is sampled. For example, PT1M indicates that the metric is sampled every minute, PT30M every 30 minutes, PT1H every hour, and so on.
  • DS Export- Whether the metric is exportable to Azure Monitor Logs via diagnostic settings. For information on exporting metrics, see Create diagnostic settings in Azure Monitor.

Category: Health

Metric Name in REST API Unit Aggregation Dimensions Time Grains DS Export
Backup Health Events (preview)

The count of health events pertaining to backup job health		 BackupHealthEvent Count Count dataSourceURL, backupInstanceUrl, dataSourceType, healthStatus, backupInstanceName PT1M, PT5M, PT15M, PT30M, PT1H, PT6H, PT12H, P1D Yes
Restore Health Events (preview)

The count of health events pertaining to restore job health		 RestoreHealthEvent Count Count dataSourceURL, backupInstanceUrl, dataSourceType, healthStatus, backupInstanceName PT1M, PT5M, PT15M, PT30M, PT1H, PT6H, PT12H, P1D Yes

Metric dimensions

For information about what metric dimensions are, see Multi-dimensional metrics.

This service has the following dimensions associated with its metrics.

Resource logs

This section lists the types of resource logs you can collect for this service. The section pulls from the list of all resource logs category types supported in Azure Monitor.

Supported resource logs for Microsoft.DataProtection/BackupVaults

Category Category display name Log table Supports basic log plan Supports ingestion-time transformation Example queries Costs to export
AddonAzureBackupJobs Addon Azure Backup Job Data No No Yes
AddonAzureBackupPolicy Addon Azure Backup Policy Data No No Yes
AddonAzureBackupProtectedInstance Addon Azure Backup Protected Instance Data No No Yes
CoreAzureBackup Core Azure Backup Data No No Yes

Azure Monitor Logs tables

This section lists the Azure Monitor Logs tables relevant to this service, which are available for query by Log Analytics using Kusto queries. The tables contain resource log data and possibly more depending on what is collected and routed to them.

Azure Backup Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults

Activity log

The linked table lists the operations that can be recorded in the activity log for this service. These operations are a subset of all the possible resource provider operations in the activity log.

For more information on the schema of activity log entries, see Activity Log schema.

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