Veeam Backup & Replication for Home Assistant — 0.5.0

Following up on the introduction post earlier this year, version 0.5.0 of the Veeam Backup & Replication integration for Home Assistant is now available.

This is a big one. The main focus of this release is to add Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1 support, but it also adds monitoring templates for backup infrastructure, High Availability clusters, licensing, and a new set of automations and dashboards.

VBR 13.1 support

The integration now supports the VBR 13.1 REST API (1.3-rev2), including the new:

• Proxmox VE jobs

• Nutanix AHV jobs

There is nothing special to configure. Once connected to a 13.1 server, these workloads show up automatically alongside your existing Veeam jobs.

Automatic API version detection

The integration can now automatically determine the newest API revision supported by your VBR server. This means you can leave the integration set to Auto and let it move to newer API revisions as you upgrade VBR and the integration.

If you prefer to control API version changes yourself, you can still pin a specific revision.

High Availability monitoring

VBR 13.1 support also brings High Availability cluster monitoring into Home Assistant.

You can now monitor:

• Cluster online/offline state

• Failover in progress

• Maintenance state

• Last online time

• Patroni role and state for each node

• Replication lag

There are also controls for switchover and failover.

Backup infrastructure monitoring

0.5.0 expands the integration beyond jobs and repositories with two new infrastructure device types.

Backup proxies

You can now monitor your Veeam backup proxies, including:

• Online/offline state

• Enabled/disabled state

• Out-of-date state

• Host

• Proxy type

  • VMware

  • Hyper-V

  • Proxmox VE

  • Nutanix AHV

  • General purpose

You can also enable or disable proxies directly from Home Assistant.

This is particularly useful for detecting infrastructure problems that don't necessarily cause a job failure. Veeam can reassign work when a proxy goes offline, but that can leave you with backups that are suddenly taking much longer than expected.

WAN accelerators

WAN accelerators are also now monitored, including:

• Cache size and folder

• Traffic port

• Stream count

• High-bandwidth mode

Licensing

License information gets a significant upgrade in 0.5.0.

You can now see:

• Licensed instance count

• Used instance count

• Instance usage broken down by workload type

The integration also detects Community Edition and unlicensed VBR servers and reports them through Home Assistant's Settings → Repairs system.

Six new automation blueprints

0.5.0 includes six automation blueprints out of the box:

1. Job failed

2. Repository running out of space

3. Proxy offline

4. License expiring

5. Daily backup summary

6. HA cluster failover

The blueprints use Home Assistant actions rather than assuming you want a specific notification service. So, you can send notifications to your phone, use TTS, announce something through an Assist satellite, send it to Slack, trigger another automation, or do whatever else Home Assistant supports. Instead of manually creating an automation from scratch, you can just import in the blueprints and create automations from them.

New companion dashboard

There's also a new companion dashboard releasing in beta:

ha-veeam-br-dashboard

The dashboard is designed to be dynamic. It builds its views from the devices and entities discovered by the integration, so you don't have to manually maintain a bunch of dashboard YAML whenever your VBR environment changes.

Install it through HACS as a Dashboard repository and add:

strategy:
  type: custom:veeam-br

And a few quality-of-life improvements

There are a handful of smaller improvements in 0.5.0 as well:

• Human-readable sensor values instead of raw API identifiers

• Deleted repositories are automatically removed

• A working Delete action is available for other devices

• Devices from multiple VBR servers are now clearly distinguishable

• Reloading the integration no longer causes threshold automations to fire unexpectedly

• VBR REST for new servers now defaults to port 443, while existing configurations retain their current port

Upgrade

0.5.0 requires Home Assistant 2026.1 or newer and while it supports VBR 12.3 and newer, running the latest VBR release and API version allows for the most data to be exposed to HA.

If you're running VBR 13.1, this release is especially worth checking out — the new Proxmox and Nutanix job support, infrastructure monitoring, and API version detection are probably the biggest reasons to upgrade.

Get it

• ha-veeam-br — Home Assistant integration

• veeam-br — async Python REST API library (PyPI)

• ha-veeam-br-dashboard — companion dashboard

As always, issues, feedback, and pull requests are welcome!