Yes, CheckMK is a fine tool for monitoring. It can monitor most things out of the box.
We use it a lot.

Interesting looking software.  Going to download and play around with this one.  

@wolff.mateus  Seems to be a very interesting software that I have to test in my lab 

I used an oldest version of Zabbix to monitor VBR server and a community made script for all backup jobs. With version 6 Zabbix is possible to use VEEAM API to check all infrastructure and jobs from VBR or from EM. 

Yeah, we use Zabbix for most of our monitoring, but I am testing another application called Backup Eagle which seems to be very good for monitoring Veeam as well.  

Backup Eagle seems to be interesting, because it supports more product than Veeam.
But I was not able to determine any price ranges for this product up to now….

Yeah, they do as I am testing it with Dell Networker and also Data Domain monitoring.  They have been really great at responding to issues, errors, etc.  Recommend contacting them about doing a trial.  

Do you have link of this?

Zabbix is a nice tool too. What I most like on Checkmk is the simplicity to set it up.

In a few minutes you have your VBR monitored.

Sure @wolff.mateus, here you go - BACKUP EAGLE - www.schmitz-rz-consult.de

We’re using BackupRadar to monitor our backups.  Like Backup Eagle (which I haven’t looked into), it can gather backup info from multiple sources, either via API’s or via email notifications which it them parses.  We’re using it for VBR, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud, Barracuda Backup Appliances, Datto, I think Datto Backupify, and I believe it was working with StorageCraft ShadowProtect (and probably SPX).  It’s now a ScalePad product but seems to work alright.  It’s kind of confusing to me on setting up policies and such, but I don’t have to get into it all that often as our Service Desk does the monitoring and action items.

I will say that it does a decent job of parsing the job notification emails from Veeam, but since we have all of our VBR Deployments managed/monitored by the Service Provider Console, we have BackupRadar hitting the Service Provider Console via the API’s to monitor job’s as well.  Recently we had an issue with it failing to connect which seemed to be tied to the SPC v6 but I had also just upgrade to v7 recently and they were checking into it to make sure all was compatible.

Regardless, there’s a lot of great suggestions here for monitoring as well that I’ll have to check out.  Thanks!

Aaaaaaargh…. Notworker….   I’m sure Backup Eagle is very good for different backup environments but all first level support wants to use a single dashboard. And it’s no free. 

Great tool! Have used this tool in the past for monitoring, thanks for sharing. 

Hello, great article. We’re running Centreon in production, i tried using posh script in the past.

I wrote a post on the forum r&d why we use snmp traps and not posh script.

Feature Request Snmp Notifications for backup to tape job - R&D Forums (veeam.com)

“Maybe you can ask why not using powershell or API to check status of jobs? It's easier to for operator to deal with one line per jobs when it fails then open an incident case to l2 etc...
In the past i did the implementation with powershell but i faced many challenges:
- It was not pratical for operator to manage alarms when check jobs status contains all jobs, if one fails the check goes critical
- Create one check by one jobs dit not scale was tricky to manage in monitoring when a change occures in backup...
- When a major update of veeam was deployed, we had to refactor powershell scripts used because they were using deprecated librairies (modules).”

Jorge de la Cruz is watching you..

That's for the tip on backup eagle @Chris.Childerhose I’ll look into that and see how it compares to backup radar from an MSP point of view.

No problem at all.  It is a very easy setup and installing a small agent on the servers to monitor.  There are some caveats too.  I am going to be doing a blog series on it so will post those here too.  

If you contact them, you can reference me who mentioned it.  

Fantastic article, mate! I always love a nice dark theme with metrics any day.

Keep up the great work.

Hhahah I only watch to admire great work. You know I am a big fan of Grafana and other monitoring OSE tools, the more, the better. There is not a single product that gives you everything, but combining some, you can get the level of visibility/audit/compliance you need :)

Eheheh!

I know..any good work is always appreciated!

Wise words!

Hey Jochen,

It’s always great to know that Checkmk meets the requirements.

Are you using the Enterprise or the RAW edition?

Best regards,

Alex

Hey Chris,

How your experience has been with Checkmk?

Let me know if you are considering the Enterprise if you don’t have one as Checkmk also have cloud now.

Best,

Alex

This looks very interesting but mostly for the solutions other than Veeam. We are using Veeam Enterprise Manager along with the PRTG sensors. This enables my team to get instant notifications on all our devices (Push notifications), completely customizable, set all the thresholds we need and more.

For example, we are setting not only last status, but we also set the Duration channel threshold so we know if a job (for example, replication jobs) is running for more than 2-3 hours there is likely an issue. Or, the last job run is set to alert us if there was no run within the needed period. For our NOC team we have also enabled autoacknowledge so the backup team does get alerted for backup issues but after 1-2 minutes the alerts are acknowledged automatically in PRTG so they don’t interfere with Systems monitoring.

Interesting! Its been a long time since I test PRTG.