Microsoft Azure Monitoring Day-6 Bootcamp

Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Backup 

Azure Backup also provides alerts via Azure Monitor that enables you to have a consistent experience for alert management across different Azure services, including Azure Backup. With Azure Monitor alerts, you can route alerts to any notification channel supported by Azure Monitor, such as email, ITSM, Webhook, Logic App, and so on.

Currently, Azure Backup provides two main types of built-in alerts:

Security Alerts: For scenarios, such as deletion of backup data, or disabling of soft-delete functionality for vault, security alerts (of severity Sev 0) are fired, and displayed in the Azure portal or consumed via other clients (PowerShell, CLI, and REST API). Security alerts are generated by default and can't be turned off. However, you can control the scenarios for which the notifications (for example, emails) should be fired. For more information on how to configure notifications, see Action rules.

Job Failure Alerts: For scenarios, such as backup failure and restore failure, Azure Backup provides built-in alerts via Azure Monitor (of Severity Sev 1). Unlike security alerts, you can choose to turn off Azure Monitor alerts for job failure scenarios. For example, you've already configured custom alert rules for job failures via Log Analytics, and don't need built-in alerts to be fired for every job failure. By default, alerts for job failures are turned off. For more information, see the section on turning on alerts for these scenarios.

Azure Backup

Azure Backup is a service provided by Microsoft Azure to back up and restore our data over the Microsoft cloud. Azure Backup replaces our existing on-premises or off-site backup solution with a cloud-based solution that is reliable, secure, and cost-competitive. It is not only used as cloud storage to back-up our data to the cloud, but we can also use our existing local disc to back-up the data.

So, Azure backup works with this heterogeneous storage environment with the combination of on-premises storage and also cloud storage. Whenever Azure backup uses local storage, we'll not get charged for it. You will only get charged when the data is backed up in the cloud.

Advantages of Azure Backup

  • Automatic storage management
  • Unlimited scaling
  • Multiple Storage options
  • Application consistent backup
  • Long-Term retention

Working of Azure backup service

Azure Backup

The first thing we do when we're using Azure backup is to define backup policy. The policy describes how frequently you need to take a backup and also which target you need to backup. After that, we also identify the destination where the data need to get stored, which in most cases, it's going to be recovery services vault. Backup of the data will not get stored in a storage account, and it will be stored in the recovery service vault, which is also an online storage facility where we can save the backup of all our virtual machines.

How to take the backup of VM using the Azure backup

Step 1: Go into Virtual Machine and click on Backup. The following window will appear once you click on backup.

Azure Backup

Step 2: Configure the Backup policy according to your requirements and Click on Enable Back up.

Azure Backup

Step 3: Now, go to the resource group and click on the Recovery Service vault that you have created, as shown below.

Azure Backup

Step 4: In case you would like to take a backup from the recovery services vault and choose different settings, then you can click on backup and then select where your workload is running.

Azure Backup


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