Monitoring: AWS Backup
AWS Backup is a fully managed backup and recovery service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of your AWS resources, including Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and Amazon EFS file systems. AWS Backup also provides tools for data retention, data transfer, and data lifecycle management, making it a comprehensive solution for managing your AWS backups.
Why should you monitor AWS Backup?
Monitoring AWS Backup is important for ensuring the success and reliability of your backup and recovery operations. One of the key reasons to monitor AWS Backup is to spot issues with failed backup jobs.
Failed backup jobs can occur for various reasons, including resource unavailability, configuration errors, or network connectivity issues. When backup jobs fail, it can leave your data at risk and cause significant downtime if data needs to be recovered.
That’s why it is crucuial to monitor AWS Backup.
How does monitoring AWS Backup work?
Without further ado, marbot monitors AWS Backup. Here is how an notification delivered to a Microsoft Teams channel looks like.
And here is the same alert in Slack.
How to setup monitoring of AWS Backup?
marbot works with Slack and Microsoft Teams. Please select your platform and follow the Getting started guide.
Chatbot for AWS Monitoring
Configure monitoring for Amazon Web Services: CloudWatch, EC2, RDS, EB, Lambda, and more. Receive and manage alerts via Slack. Solve incidents as a team.
