Monitor Backup and DR Service resources

This page provides details on how to monitor the usage and performance of Backup and DR Service resources in your Google Cloud project.

Backup and DR Service uses Cloud Monitoring to provide visibility into the usage, performance, and overall health of the resources. You can use Cloud Monitoring to create custom charts and dashboards to visualize the different performance metrics and resource usage of Backup and DR Service resources. Cloud Monitoring also lets you configure alerts and alert policies for these metrics. You can also set up an alert to check if the total data processed exceeds a specified threshold value. For information about configuring alerts, see Alerts .

You can visualize your Backup and DR Service metrics and data using the following Cloud Monitoring tools:

• Sample dashboards
• Custom dashboards
• Metrics explorer

Required IAM role

The following permissions are required for metrics operations. Learn how to grant an IAM role .

• Monitoring Viewer ( roles/monitoring.viewer ) role to view metrics in Cloud Monitoring
• Monitoring Editor ( roles/monitoring.editor ) role to access metrics dashboard and set alerts in Cloud Monitoring

Available Backup and DR Service resource metrics

The following metrics are available for Backup and DR Service in the Google Cloud console.

Metric for backup vault consumption

In Cloud Monitoring, the monitored resource type for the following metrics is the backup vault ( /backupdr.googleapis.com/BackupVault )

Metrics for the resources protected using backup template

In Cloud Monitoring, the monitored resource type for Backup and DR Service is the management console ( /backupdr.googleapis.com/managementconsole ).

Access metrics using sample dashboards

Backup and DR Service provides sample dashboards with charts containing metrics relevant to usage, performance, and the overall health of the resources. You can import and install these sample dashboards in Cloud Monitoring to create custom dashboards from.

To install a sample dashboard, do the following:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Monitoring page:

   Go to Monitoring page

2. In the navigation pane, select Dashboards, and go to the Sample librarytab.
3. In Categories, select Backup and DR.
4. From the list of samples, select Backup and DR Monitoringand click Import.

5. Click Confirm.

   The dashboard is imported and listed in the Dashboard listtab.

   After importing the sample dashboard, you can view and edit the Backup and DR Service metrics in the dashboard. For more information about installing sample dashboards, see Install sample dashboards .

Access metrics using custom dashboards

In your Google Cloud project, you can create custom monitoring dashboards for your Backup and DR Service resources by doing the following:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Monitoring > Dashboard Overview page:

   Go to Dashboard Overview page

2. Click Create dashboard.
3. Click Add widget.
4. Optional: Modify the name of the dashboard.
5. From the Add widgetmenu, select a visualization type.
6. In the Configure widget, do the following:
   1. From the Select a metricmenu, choose the metrics that you want to visualize.
   2. Click Apply.
7. Click Apply.

For more information about custom dashboards, see Create and manage custom dashboards .

Access Backup and DR Service resource metrics using Metrics explorer

The Cloud Monitoring Metrics explorer helps you build temporary metric charts to visualize the available resource metrics for your Google Cloud project. Once you have created a metric chart, you can also save it to a custom monitoring dashboard. For more information, see Select metrics when using Metrics explorer .

To create a chart using the Backup and DR Service resource metrics, do the following:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Monitoring > Metrics explorer page:

   Go to Metrics explorer page

2. In the Select a metricpane, expand the Metricmenu.
3. Enter management console in the filter bar and then use the submenus to select a specific resource type and metric .
   1. In the Active metric categoriesmenu, select OnVault_pools.
   2. In the Active metricsmenu, select an OnVault pool usagemetric.
   3. Click Apply.
4. Optional: Change the settings in the Displaypane:
   1. For quota and other metrics that report one sample per day, set the Widget typeto Stacked bar chart.
   2. For distribution valued metrics, click the Widget typemenu and select Heatmap chart.
5. Click Save chart.
6. Enter a name for the chart in the Chart titlefield.
7. Choose a dashboard from an existing dashboard or create a new dashboard.

8. Click Save chart.

   You can also select filters, group by metric labels, perform aggregations, and select chart viewing options using the Metrics explorer. For more information, see Create charts with Metrics explorer .