Performance Metrics for Windows Server Backup Monitoring

Monitor the status of your backups, events, disk usage, and policy schedule details - all in one dashboard. The Windows server backup monitor uses the Site24x7 Windows agent for monitoring, i.e. they will be auto-discovered and added for monitoring once the Windows agent is successfully installed.

Once the Windows server backup monitor is successfully added to your Site24x7 account,

View the status and backup summary for Windows backup monitors. Log in to Site24x7 and go to Server > Windows Server Backup.
Add a Threshold and Availability profile to declare a specific resource as critical or down. Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability (+).
Analyze trends and identify performance issues with exclusive performance reports.
View key metrics in a single glance with the server inventory and health dashboards, or create your own.

Monitor Overview

Parameters	Description
Last Successful Backup	The time stamp and the target path for the last Windows backup job that was successfully performed
Backups Summary	Total number of backups, the latest and oldest backup copy time are provided
Status of Recent Backups	The status and the result of the last ten backups performed
Backup Events	A count of information, warning, and error events occurred in the backups

Disk

Parameters	Description
Top Disks by Usage	The top 10 disks using up maximum disk space
Disk Details:
Name	Name of the disk partition
Capacity	The total capacity of the disk partition in GB
Used Space	The space used by the disk partition in GB
Free Space	Free space available on the disk partition in GB
Action	Thresholds can be set for each of the disk partitions and automation can be mapped, if any.

Policy Schedule

Parameters	Description
Backup Time	The time that a Windows backup job is to be performed
Backup Targets	The path to the destination folder(s) where the backup files will be stored
Volumes to Backup	The volumes that need to be backed up
Components to Backup	The components that need to be backed up
VSS Backup Settings	Specify either a VSS full backup or VSS copy backup
Files to Backup	The files to be backed up are listed
Files to Exclude	The files that will be excluded from backup