Set up alerts for paused backup plans

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This page describes how to set up alerts for the paused backup plans based on the logs viewable from the Logs Explorer.

Backup plans can be paused automatically or manually as listed in the Pause a backup schedule . To receive notifications when critical backup plans are paused, it's important to set up alerts. This procedure is similar to configuring alerts for failed backups. For instructions, see Set up alerts for failed backups .

Before you begin

Before setting up an alert policy, ensure you have an appropriate notification channel .

Create an alert for paused backup plans

To create general log-based alert policies, see Configure log-based alerts . Or, to create an alert policy specifically for Backup for GKE paused backup plans:

1. Go to the Logs Explorer page.

   Go to Logs Explorer

2. Enter the following filter criteria in the Querypane:

     logName 
    = 
    "projects/ PROJECT_ID 
   /logs/gkebackup.googleapis.com 
    %2F 
    backup_plan_change" 
    resource 
    . 
    type 
    = 
    "gkebackup.googleapis.com/BackupPlan" 
    resource 
    . 
    labels 
    . 
    backup_plan_id 
    = 
     BACKUP_PLAN 
    
    " 
    resource 
    . 
    labels 
    . 
    location 
    = 
    " LOCATION 
   " 
    jsonPayload 
    . 
    inputBackupPlan 
    . 
    backupSchedule 
    . 
    paused 
    = 
    "true" 
    
   

   Replace the following:

   • PROJECT_ID : the ID of your Google Cloud project.
   • BACKUP_PLAN : the name of the backup plan for which you want to generate alerts.

   • LOCATION : the compute region of the backup plan for which you want to generate alerts. For example, us-central1.

3. Click Run queryto validate the query.

4. In the Query resultstoolbar, expand the Actionsmenu and select Create log alert.

5. In the Alert detailspane, enter a name for your alerting policy in the Alert Policy Namefield. For example, alert for paused backup plan.

6. Select an option from the Policy severity leveldrop-down. Incidents and notifications display the severity level. We recommend setting the severity level to Critical.

7. Enter a description for your alerting policy. You can also include information that might help the recipient of a notification diagnose the problem. For information about how you can format and refine the content of this field, see Using Markdown and variables in documentation templates .

8. Click Next.

9. Set the Time between notificationsand Incident autoclose duration. We suggest setting notification to one day and autoclose duration to seven days.

10. Click Next.

11. Select one or more notification channels for your alerting policy.

12. Click Save.

    After you save the policy, you receive alerts to your notification channels whenever a backup plan matching your filter is paused.