Veeam Backup & Replication Alarms

This section describes predefined alarms for Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure components.

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager connection failure	State does not equal Connected.	Error	Automatic	Veeam ONE failed to connect to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

Veeam Backup & Replication Server

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Agent backup job state	State of an agent backup job equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	One or more computers failed to back up successfully.
Agent backup job state	State of an agent backup job equals Failed.	Error	Automatic	One or more computers failed to back up successfully.
Agent backup policy session state	State of a backup policy session equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	One or more computers failed to back up successfully.
Agent backup policy session state	State of a backup policy session equals Failed.	Error	Automatic	One or more computers failed to back up successfully.
Application backup policy state	State of a backup policy session equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	One or more application databases failed to back up successfully.
Application backup policy state	State of a backup policy session equals Failed.	Error	Automatic
Backup Copy Job exceeded data transfer window	Based on event VeeamBpCopyJobNetworkWindowExceededEvent.	Error	Manual	One or more backup copy jobs exceeded defined window, and data transfer between source and target backup repositories has been stopped.
Backup Copy job state	State of an backup copy job equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	One or more objects could not be successfully copied from the backup repository.
Backup Copy job state	State of an backup copy job equals Failed.	Error	Automatic
Backup Copy RPO	Restore point copy is missing according to job schedule.	Error	Automatic	One or more backups was not successfully copied to the secondary repository within the defined RPO interval.
Backup Server security & compliance state	Backup security & compliance state is not implemented.	Error	Automatic	Security & compliance check finished with warning or error.
	Backup security & compliance state is unable to detect.	Warning
	Backup security & compliance state is not checked.	Warning
Cloud instance RPO	No cloud instance protection type was created for more than 24 hours.	Warning	Automatic	No cloud instance protection type was created within the defined RPO interval.
Job disabled	Job is disabled for more than 12 hours.	Warning	Automatic	Job stays in the disabled state for a longer time than configured in the alarm threshold.
Backup job failed to create storage snapshot	Based on event VeeamBpJobFailedToCreateStorageSnapshotEvent.	Warning	Manual	Integrated storage failed to create storage snapshot initiated by Veeam backup job.
Backup job state	State of a backup job equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	Backup job reported either an error or a warning.
	State of a backup job equals Failed.	Error
	State of a Nutanix backup job equals Warning.	Warning
	State of a Nutanix backup job equals Failed.	Error
CDP SLA Compliance	SLA decreases to 95% for 5 minutes.	Warning	Automatic	SLA % of one or more workloads processed by CDP policy has dropped below threshold.
CDP SLA Compliance	SLA decreases to 75% for 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic
Cloud backup policy session state	Status of a cloud backup policy session equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	Policy finished with warning or error.
Cloud backup policy session state	Status of a cloud backup policy session equals Error.	Error	Automatic	Policy finished with warning or error.
File backup job state	State of a file backup job equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	File backup job finished with warning or error.
File backup job state	State of a file backup job equals Failed.	Error	Automatic	File backup job finished with warning or error.
File copy job state	State of a file copy job equals Warning.	Warning	Manual	One or more files failed to be transferred to the destination folder.
File copy job state	State of a file copy job equals Failed.	Error	Manual
Job exceeded backup window	Based on event VeeamBpJobWindowExceededEvent.	Error	Manual	One or more jobs exceeded allowed backup window and has been terminated.
License expiration date	Based on event VeeamBackupServerLicenseExpiration.	Warning	Automatic	Veeam Backup & Replication license expired.
	Based on event VeeamBackupServerLicenseChanged.	Resolve
	Based on event VeeamBackupServerLicenseExpirationResolve.	Resolve
Maximum allowed job duration	Job duration is more than 480 minutes.	Error	Manual	Job has exceeded its maximum allowed execution time.
Maximum allowed job duration	Job duration is more than 120 minutes.	Warning	Manual	Job has exceeded its maximum allowed execution time.
Object storage backup job state	Object storage backup job equals failed.	Error	Automatic	One or more unstructured data items in the object storage backup were not successfully backed up.
Object storage backup job state	Object storage backup job equals warning.	Warning	Automatic
Potential malware in backups	One or more files detected as infected with malware.	Error	Automatic	One or more files with suspicious or infected malware detection.
Potential malware in backups	One or more files detected with potential suspicious malware infection.	Warning	Automatic
Plug-in backup data collection failure	Plug-in backup data collection failed due to connection loss for more than 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic	Veeam ONE server failed to collect plug-in backup data provided by Veeam Backup & Replication.
Quick Migration job state	Based on event VeeamBpQMigrationSessionWarningEvent.	Warning	Automatic	One or more VMs failed to migrate to another host.
Quick Migration job state	Based on event VeeamBpQMigrationSessionErrorEvent.	Error	Automatic	One or more VMs failed to migrate to another host.
Replication job state	State of a replication job equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	One or more VMs failed to replicate successfully.
Replication job state	State of a replication job equals Failed.	Error	Automatic	One or more VMs failed to replicate successfully.
Restore activity	Based on event 290 Veeam MP.	Information	Automatic	Restore session initiated.
Restore activity	Based on event 40290 Veeam MP.	Information	Automatic	Restore session initiated.
Support expiration date	Based on event VeeamBackupServerLicenseSupportExpiration.	Warning	Automatic	Veeam Backup & Replication prepaid support contract expired.
	Based on event VeeamBackupServerLicenseChanged.	Resolve
	Based on event VeeamBackupServerLicenseSupportExpirationResolved.	Resolve
SureBackup job state	State of a SureBackup job equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	One or more VMs could not be successfully verified.
SureBackup job state	State of a SureBackup job equals Failed.	Error	Automatic	One or more VMs could not be successfully verified.
Suspicious incremental backup size	One of 3 last job increment sizes is above 150% of configured threshold.	Warning	Automatic	The size of the recently created incremental restore point is significantly different from the previously created ones. For Oracle RMAN backup jobs, Veeam ONE analyzes only the differential level 1 backups.
	One of 3 last job increment sizes is above 200% of configured threshold.	Error
	One of 3 last job increment sizes is below 80% of configured threshold.	Warning
	One of 3 last job increment sizes is below 70% of configured threshold.	Error
Tape job state	Status of the file to tape backup job equals Warning.	Warning	Manual	One or more VMs, computers or unstructured data items failed to be transferred to the tape device.
	Status of the file to tape backup job equals Failed.	Error
	Status of the backup to tape job equals Warning.	Warning
	Status of the backup to tape job equals Failed.	Error
Database log backup job state	Microsoft SQL server log backup job completed with warning.	Warning	Automatic	Database transaction logs have not been backed up successfully.
	Microsoft SQL server log backup job failed.	Error
	Oracle Database log backup job completed with warning.	Warning
	Oracle Database log backup job failed.	Error
	PostgreSQL log backup job completed with warning.	Warning
	PostgreSQL log backup job failed.	Error
	Enterprise application log backup job completed with warning.	Warning
	Enterprise application log backup job failed.	Error
Unusual job duration	Job duration is above 150% of average time interval.	Warning	Automatic	Job duration is above usual values among the set of job sessions.
Unusual job duration	Job duration is above 200% of average time interval.	Error	Automatic
Veeam Backup & Replication Server connection failure	State does not equal Connected.	Error	Automatic	Connection to Veeam Backup & Replication server failed.
Veeam Broker Service state	Based on event VeeamBackupServerBrokerServiceDownEvent.	Warning	Automatic	Veeam Broker Service that interacts with virtual infrastructure to collect and cache its topology is not started and not working properly.
	Based on event VeeamBackupServerBrokerServiceDownEvent.	Resolve
	Based on event VeeamBackupServerBrokerServiceDownEvent.	Resolve
Veeam malware detection activity state	Disabled malware detection.	Error	Automatic	This event is triggered when inline entropy or file system activity analysis settings are disabled.
Veeam malware detection exclusions change tracking	Based on event 42260 Veeam MP.	Error	Manual	A workload was added to or removed from the malware detection exclusions list.
Veeam malware detection exclusions change tracking	Based on event 42270 Veeam MP.	Error	Manual
Veeam malware detection change tracking	Based on event VeeamMalwareInlineEntropyAnalysisEnabled.	Warning	Manual	Events are triggered when malware scan settings are changed.
	Based on event VeeamMalwareInlineEntropyAnalysisDisabled.	Warning
	Based on event VeeamMalwareSensitivityDecreased.	Warning
	Based on event VeeamMalwareSensitivityIncreased.	Warning
	Based on event VeeamUpdateMalwareDefinitionsAutomaticallyDisabled.	Warning
	Based on event VeeamUpdateMalwareDefinitionsAutomaticallyEnabled.	Warning
	Based on event VeeamMalwareIncludedExtensionsListChanged.	Warning
	Based on event VeeamMalwareExcludedExtensionsListChanged.	Warning
	Based on event VeeamMalwareFileSystemActivityAnalysisDisabled.	Warning
	Based on event VeeamMalwareFileSystemActivityAnalysisEnabled.	Warning
VM Backup RPO (oVirt KVM, Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV)	No VM backups were created for more than 24 hours.	Warning	Automatic	This VM has not been backed up within the defined RPO (Recovery Point Objective) interval.

Repository

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Backup repository connection failure	State equals Not accessible for more than 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic	Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the Microsoft Windows backup repository.
Backup repository connection failure	State equals Partially accessible for more than 5 minutes.	Warning	Automatic
Backup repository free space	Free space is below 5%.	Error	Automatic	Backup repository is low on free space.
Backup repository free space	Free space is below 10%.	Warning	Automatic	Backup repository is low on free space.
Backup repository version is out-of-date	Component version mismatch.	Warning	Automatic	Veeam backup repository version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.
Backup repository ReFS data integrity issue	Based on event 133 ReFS.	Warning	Manual	ReFS-formatted volume of a backup repository experienced a data integrity issue.
	Based on event 135 ReFS.
	Based on event 136 ReFS.
Immutability state	Immutability is disabled.	Warning	Automatic	The immutability setting is turned off on one or several backup repositories or scale-out backup repository extents.
Immutability change tracking	Based on event VeeamImmutabilityIntervalDaysDecreased.	Warning	Manual	The configured immutability period has been changed on one or several backup repositories or scale-out backup repository extents.
	Based on event VeeamImmutabilityIntervalDaysIncreased.
	Based on event VeeamImmutabilityIntervalDaysEnabled.
Scale-out backup repository data transfer session state	Scale-out backup repository data transfer session completed with warning.	Warning	Automatic	Scale-out backup repository offload, download, archiving or retrieval data transfer session finished with warning or failed.
Scale-out backup repository data transfer session state	Scale-out backup repository data transfer session failed.	Error	Automatic

Proxy

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Backup proxy connection failure	State does not equal Accessible for more than 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic	Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the backup proxy server.
Backup proxy version is out-of-date	Component version mismatch.	Warning	Automatic	Veeam backup proxy version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.
CDP proxy cache usage	CDP cache usage is above 50%	Warning	Automatic	CDP proxy cache usage has reached the configured threshold.
CDP proxy cache usage	CDP cache usage is above 75%	Error	Automatic	CDP proxy cache usage has reached the configured threshold.

WAN Accelerator

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
WAN accelerator connection state	State does not equal Accessible for more than 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic	Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the WAN accelerator
WAN accelerator version is out-of-date	Component version mismatch.	Warning	Automatic	Veeam WAN accelerator version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.

Tape Server

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Tape server connection state	State does not equal Accessible for more than 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic	Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the tape server.
Tape server version is out-of-date	Component version mismatch.	Warning	Automatic	Veeam tape server version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.

Cloud Repository

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Cloud repository free space	Free space is below 10%.	Warning	Automatic	Cloud repository is low on available free space.
Cloud repository free space	Free space is below 5%.	Error	Automatic	Cloud repository is low on available free space.
Cloud repository lease expiration date	14 days to lease expiration.	Warning	Automatic	Cloud repository lease time is about to expire.
Cloud repository lease expiration date	0 days to lease expiration.	Error	Automatic	Cloud repository lease time is about to expire.
VM backups in cloud repository	Number of stored VMs is above the specified threshold.	Warning	Automatic	Number of VMs stored in the cloud repository is above the defined threshold.

Cloud Gateway

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Cloud gateway connection state	State does not equal Accessible for more than 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic	Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the cloud gateway.
Cloud gateway version is out-of-date	Component version mismatch.	Warning	Automatic	Veeam cloud gateway version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.

Computer

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Computer with no backup	No computer backups were created for more than 24 hours.	Warning	Automatic	This computer has not been backed up within the configured RPO (Recovery Point Objective) period.

Enterprise Application

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Application with no recent data backup sessions	No backup jobs protecting application database finished successfully or with warnings for more than 24 hours.	Warning	Automatic	One or several databases on an application server or application cluster are not protected with a backup job that finished successfully or with warnings within the configured RPO (Recovery Point Objective) period.

Intelligent Diagnostics

List of intelligent diagnostics alarms depends on the set of installed signatures. For details, see Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics.