Hi Community,

This happened after yesterday's amazing live show, and I learned many points during the live show, which are very impressive and amazing.

Summary:

To effectively apply reliability metrics in your Veeam environment, begin by actively monitoring system alerts and backup job failures using tools like Veeam ONE.

1: Track Failures and Alerts (MTBF, MTTF)

• Use Veeam ONE to monitor system health and track how often failures occur in proxies, repositories, or even backup job logic.
• Create custom reports to calculate MTBF over time for key components like NAS storage, tape drives, or SOBR extents.
• For MTTF, log hardware runtime metrics and tie them to predictive failure analysis, helping you justify lifecycle replacement.

2: Analyse Patterns (MTBF, MTTF)

• Correlate high-frequency backup job failures with specific hardware or VM groups.
• Identify trends where MTBF is low and use these insights to adjust job schedules, storage assignments, or hardware specs.
• Establish a baseline MTTF for each storage device and use it to implement staggered replacement cycles before failures occur.

3: Improve Incident Response (MTTA)

• Set thresholds and alerts using Veeam ONE alarms, then route them via SNMP or email to your NOC.
• Integrate Veeam Backup & Replication with external alerting systems like Zabbix, PRTG, Solarwind.

4: Streamline Recovery Workflows (MTTR)

• Document restore procedures in a runbook and link them to your Veeam console.
• Use Instant VM Recovery, SureBackup, or Restore Testing to improve confidence and execution speed.
• Measure MTTR for different scenarios (file-level, VM-level, full-site DR) and establish a playbook for each.

5: Plan Preventive Maintenance (MTTF)

• Use vendor documentation and historical monitoring data to estimate component life.

I have attached PDF file for review and i hope this information will help us.

Thank you.