AWS Backup metrics

Once you’ve integrated with AWS CloudWatch, you have access to metrics from AWS Backup, a fully managed, policy based service for protecting your data at scale.

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To verify metrics are reporting, search for the metrics on the Metric details page in Settings.

The following table shows the Backup metrics ingested by Cloud Observability.

Metric Name Unit Description
aws.backup.number_of_backup_jobs_created count The number of backup jobs created.
aws.backup.number_of_backup_jobs_pending count The number of backup jobs pending.
aws.backup.number_of_backup_jobs_running count The number of backup jobs running.
aws.backup.number_of_backup_jobs_aborted count The number of backup jobs aborted.
aws.backup.number_of_backup_jobs_completed count The number of backup jobs completed.
aws.backup.number_of_backup_jobs_failed count The number of backup jobs failed.
aws.backup.number_of_backup_jobs_expired count The number of backup jobs expired.
aws.backup.number_of_copy_jobs_created count The number of copy jobs created.
aws.backup.number_of_copy_jobs_running count The number of copy jobs running.
aws.backup.number_of_copy_jobs_completed count The number of copy jobs completed.
aws.backup.number_of_copy_jobs_failed count The number of copy jobs failed.
aws.backup.number_of_restore_jobs_pending count The number of restore jobs pending.
aws.backup.number_of_restore_jobs_running count The number of restore jobs running.
aws.backup.number_of_restore_jobs_completed count The number of restore jobs completed.
aws.backup.number_of_restore_jobs_failed count The number of restore jobs failed.
aws.backup.number_of_recovery_points_completed count The number of recovery points completed.
aws.backup.number_of_recovery_points_partial count The number of partial recovery points.
aws.backup.number_of_recovery_points_expired count The number of expired recovery points.
aws.backup.number_of_recovery_points_deleting count The number of recovery points deleting.
aws.backup.number_of_recovery_points_cold count The number of cold recovery points.

See also

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Updated Dec 1, 2022