Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Alarms

This section describes predefined alarms for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 infrastructure components.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Server

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Backup copy job state (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	State of an backup copy job equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	Backup copy job reported either an error or a warning.
Backup copy job state (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	State of an backup copy job equals Failed.	Error	Automatic	Backup copy job reported either an error or a warning.
Backup job state (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	State of an backup job equals Warning.	Warning	Automatic	Backup job reported either an error or a warning.
Backup job state (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	State of an backup job equals Failed.	Error	Automatic	Backup job reported either an error or a warning.
Job disabled (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	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.
License exceeded (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	Based on event VeeamVbmServerLicenseCapacityDepleting.	Warning	Automatic	Number of protected user accounts exceeds the license limit.
	Based on event VeeamVbmServerLicenseCapacityDepletingResolved.	Resolve
	Based on event VeeamMonitorServicesStartedEvent.	Resolve
License expiration date	Based on event VeeamVbmServerLicenseExpiration.	Warning	Automatic	Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 license expired.
	Based on event VeeamVbmServerLicenseExpirationResolved.	Resolve
	Based on event VeeamMonitorServicesStartedEvent.	Resolve
Organization with no backup	Microsoft 365 organization has no restore points created within the last 24 hours.	Warning	Automatic	Microsoft 365 organization was not backed up during the configured RPO period.
Unusual job duration (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	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 (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	Job duration is above 200% of average time interval	Error	Automatic
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server connection failure	State does not equal Connected for more than 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic	Connection to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server failed.
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 service state	Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 service status does not equal Running for more than 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic	Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 service is not running on the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server.

Backup Proxy

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Backup proxy connection failure (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	Backup proxy status does not equal Online for more than 5 minutes.	Error	Automatic	Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 server lost connection to the proxy server.

Backup Repository

Alarm Name	Event/Condition	Severity	Resolve Action	Description
Backup repository free space (Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365)	Free space is below 5%.	Error	Automatic	Backup repository is low on free space.
	Free space is below 10%.	Warning	Automatic	Backup repository is low on free space.