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Difficulty: MediumAzure Backup Reports and Monitoring

An organization has multiple Recovery Services vaults in different regions. To enable centralized backup reporting, an administrator configures diagnostic settings on each vault to send data to a central Log Analytics workspace. When viewing the Backup Reports in the Azure Portal, the administrator notices that while the backup jobs, policies, and active alerts are fully populated, the reports contain no data regarding backup storage consumption or monthly storage trends. Which log category must the administrator add to the diagnostic settings of the Recovery Services vaults to resolve this issue?

  1. A
    CoreBackup
  2. AddonBackupStorageAnswer
  3. C
    AzureMetrics
  4. D
    AzureDiagnostics

Answer

AddonBackupStorage
The correct answer is the category that logs backup storage data. To populate the storage reports and view storage trends in Azure Backup Reports, the diagnostic settings of the Recovery Services Vaults must be configured to send the specific storage log category. Omitting this category prevents storage utilization and capacity planning data from reaching the Log Analytics workspace, while other reports (like jobs and policies) continue to function if their respective categories are enabled.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the missing data type in the Azure Backup Reports dashboard.
The dashboard is missing backup storage consumption and monthly storage trends.
This indicates that the storage-related diagnostic logs are not being sent to the Log Analytics workspace.
2
Recall the Azure Backup resource-specific diagnostic log categories.
The categories include CoreBackup, AddonBackupJobs, AddonBackupAlerts, AddonBackupStorage, AddonBackupPolicy, AddonBackupProtectedInstance, and AddonBackupMetadata.
Each category routes specific diagnostic data to its corresponding Log Analytics table.
3
Select the log category that maps to storage consumption and trends.
The log category is AddonBackupStorage.
Enabling this category ensures that storage-related logs are collected, allowing the storage reports to display data.

Key Concept

Azure Backup diagnostic settings and Log Analytics integration for Backup Reports
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Azure Backup Reports and Monitoring

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