Alibaba Cloud Backup Monitoring Integration
Site24x7 offers integrated monitoring support for Alibaba Cloud Backup, enabling you to maintain visibility into appliance health, storage usage, and network performance. By tracking system, storage, and network metrics, you can proactively detect issues, prevent failures, and ensure reliable backup operations. When you integrate your Alibaba Cloud account with Site24x7, all associated Cloud Backup appliances are automatically discovered and continuously monitored.
Use cases
- System health tracking: Monitor CPU, memory, power, and temperature to prevent hardware degradation.
- Storage monitoring: Keep track of disk usage, vault storage size, and drive status to ensure sufficient backup capacity.
- Network reliability: Monitor adapter activity, network errors, and packet drops to maintain stable data transfer.
- Backup assurance: Detect early warning signs from hardware or network anomalies to safeguard backup integrity.
Setup and configuration
- Log in to your Site24x7 account and navigate to Cloud > Alibaba Cloud > Add Monitor.
- In the Edit Alibaba Cloud Monitor page, select Cloud Backup from the Service Types list.
- Once added, go to Cloud > Alibaba > Cloud Backup to view dashboards and performance metrics.
Supported metrics
System Metrics
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware Appliance CPU | The percentage of CPU used by the Cloud Backup appliance. | Percentage |
| Hardware Appliance Memory | The percentage of memory used by the appliance. | Percentage |
| Hardware Appliance Power | The power consumption of the appliance hardware. | Watts |
| Hardware Appliance Temperature | The temperature of the appliance hardware. | °C |
Storage Metrics
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware Appliance Disk Total | The total disk capacity available in the appliance. | Bytes |
| Hardware Appliance Disk Used Percent | The percentage of disk space currently utilized. | Percentage |
| Hardware Appliance Disk Info | Details of the disks configured in the appliance. | Text |
| Hardware Appliance Drive Slot | The number of active drive slots in use. | Count |
| Vault Storage Size | The total storage capacity used for backup vaults. | Bytes |
Network Metrics
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware Appliance Network | The total network throughput for the appliance. | Bytes/second |
| Hardware Appliance Network Adapter | The status and performance details of the network adapters. | Text |
| Hardware Appliance Network Errors | The number of network errors encountered during data transmission. | Count |
| Hardware Appliance Network Drops | The number of network packets dropped. | Count |
Threshold configuration
- Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
- Create or edit a threshold profile for Cloud Backup.
- Assign the profile to the respective monitors to trigger alerts.
IT automation
Site24x7's IT Automation tools help with automatically resolving performance degradation issues. When a breach occurs, the alarm engine continuously examines the system events for which thresholds have been defined and performs the mapped automation.
- Go to Admin > IT Automation Templates.
- Create a new automation rule.
- Map the rule to the monitor for proactive resolution.
How to configure IT Automation for a monitor
Configuration rules
With Site24x7's Configuration Rules, you can set parameters like Threshold Profile, Notification Profile, Tags, and Monitor Group for multiple monitors and automate the configuration settings of your monitoring resources. Automatically assign these settings when new Cloud Backup monitors are added.
How to add a Configuration Rule