Integration: AWS Backup Notification

AWS Backup helps you to manage your backups from a central place. AWS Backup Notifications are a way to get insights into the service.

The following events are published:

• BACKUP_JOB_STARTED
• BACKUP_JOB_COMPLETED
• RESTORE_JOB_STARTED
• RESTORE_JOB_COMPLETED
• RECOVERY_POINT_MODIFIED
• BACKUP_PLAN_CREATED
• BACKUP_PLAN_MODIFIED

To monitor backup jobs with marbot:

1. Install marbot (Slack or Microsoft Teams).
2. Invite marbot to one of your channels.
3. Send @marbot Create an SNS topic to the channel.
4. Follow the wizard in the channel.

Unfortunately, AWS Backup does not provide a UI to enable notifications. But we can use the CLI:

aws sns list-topics # search for the topic name marbot-standalone-topic-*
aws backup put-backup-vault-notifications \
  --backup-vault-name NAME_OF_VAULT \
  --sns-topic-arn SNS_TOPIC_ARN \
  --backup-vault-events BACKUP_JOB_COMPLETED

From now on, marbot will let you know about changes to the pipeline: