As a Backup and Site Recovery Admin, one of your key roles is to be on top of all critical incidents and ensure timely resolution from an outage. Azure Site Recovery now offers an improved alerting solution for Azure Site Recovery on Azure Monitor. This includes default alerts via Azure Monitor, which will enable you to have consistent experience for alert management across different Azure services.
With Azure Monitor based alerts, you can route alerts to any notification channel supported by Azure Monitor, such as email, Webhook, Logic app, and more. You can also use other alert management capabilities offered by Azure Monitor, for example, suppressing notifications during a planned maintenance window, correlate alerts, etc.
Azure Site Recovery sends a default alert (surfaced via Azure Monitor) whenever any of the following critical events occur:
To test the working of the alerts for a test VM using Azure Site Recovery, you can disable public network access for the cache storage account so that a Replication Health turned to critical alert is generated.
The built-in alerts can be consumed via the Azure portal or other clients such as Azure PowerShell, CLI and REST API.
In many cases, you might also want to configure notifications for these alerts - for example, email. To configure notifications, you can leverage Azure Monitor’s Action Groups and Action Rules.
For configuring notifications to other channels, you can refer to the Azure Monitor documentation pages.
In addition to enabling management of alerts on Azure Monitor, Azure Site Recovery also provides an alert management experience on Recovery Services Vault, Business Continuity Center and Backup Center. Following are the available benefits and experiences:
You can view the alerts settings under Recovery Services Vault -> Settings -> Properties -> Monitoring Settings. The built-in alerts for Site Recovery are enabled by default, but you can disable either or both categories of Site Recovery alerts. You can click on the checkbox to opt out of classic alerts for site recovery and only use built-in alerts. If not done, duplicate alerts will be generated of types classic and built-in.
1. You can manage your alerts settings under Business Continuity Center -> Monitoring+Reporting blade -> Alerts blade -> Manage alerts dropdown -> Manage built-in alert settings for resources.
2. Get an at-scale view of all vaults across all subscriptions using Classic Alerts for Backup and Site Recovery. You can update the alert settings for each vault by clicking on Update. Manage the alert settings here.
Click on Click here to take action to manage built-in alerts for site recovery. Further opt-in to use Azure Monitor for alert and manage alerts at scale.
Q. How to enable these alerts?
A. These alerts are generated by default, without any need for rule configuration. However, to enable notifications (for example, email notifications) for these generated alerts, you must create an alert processing rule.
Q. What will happen to the classic alerts for azure site recovery?
A. For a period of time, the earlier classic alerts solution will co-exist with the newer Azure Monitor-based solution. This is meant to provide you sufficient time to familiarize yourself with the new experience. It is recommended to switch to using Action Groups for notifications as Azure Monitor integration is the forward-looking alerting and notification solution for Azure Backup. Note that the alerts visible in Backup center are all based on the Azure Monitor-based solution. Alerts generated by the earlier solution cannot be viewed in Backup center.
Q. Do I pay for the built-in alerts for site recovery on Azure Monitor?
A. The alerts are fired by default and come at no additional cost. If you choose to configure notifications (action rules) for these alerts, notifications are free up to the limits specified in the free tier. If the volume of notifications falls beyond the free tier, there is a minor cost involved for the additional notifications generated. Refer to this page to learn more about the free tier for notifications and the cost of notifications beyond the free tier.
Q. What if I want to create alerts based on custom rules, in addition to the built-in alerts?
A. The Azure BCDR team is actively working on enhancements in custom alerting. Write to AskAzureBackupTeam@microsoft.com if you’d like to learn more about the roadmap and the upcoming preview programs!
In the meantime, you can always make use of alert rules based on Azure Monitor Logs if you have configured your vaults to send data to a Log Analytics workspace.
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