If you’re a developer or a database administrator, chances are that you have backed up your data. If you are backing up your data, chances are you have thought about database backup monitoring. In this blog post we are going to go through the things you should know when monitoring your database backups.

Why Consider Monitoring Database Backups?

Before we actually tell you what you need to know in the database backup monitoring space, we should probably tell you why you should monitor your database backups in the first place. In general, monitoring your database backups could be helpful if you want to ensure that your database backups are in tip-top shape whatever happens meaning that the monitoring of your database backups can be useful if you want to ensure that your database backups consist of all of the data critical to your business and you want to ensure that your backups are restorable at the same time.

Database Backup Monitoring: What To Know?

Now that you know why you should monitor your database backups, we should probably tell you what you should know when backing up your database instances. The first thing you should consider is that the monitoring of your database backups is often a long and tedious process because of the variety of the things you need to consider: you would need to know the approximate size of your database backups and you would also need to keep in mind the backup duration - the backup duration might let you know the approximate time that the backup would take to restore. Now we will look into how Backup Ninja could help you achieve your database backup monitoring goals.

As already mentioned, the monitoring of your database backups could be a long and tedious process and part of that is because when monitoring your database backups manually, you don’t have any insights on the key metrics of your backup management process. Backup Ninja could help alleviate this problem because Backup Ninja can help you to monitor your database backups by offering an interactive database backup dashboard:

Backup Ninja can also help you view backups that are planned to be deleted. This part of Backup Ninja can help you figure out what backups will be deleted and when:

Backup Ninja is also able to provide you with key metrics for backup management - you are also to observe the success ratio of your backups, the backup duration during specific time, the amount of upcoming backups, what backup methods do they have etc.:

For more information on how Backup Ninja might help you achieve your database backup monitoring goals, please visit the database monitoring page.

Summary

As far as database backup monitoring is concerned, there’s a number of things that should be considered. You would need to know the approximate size of your database backups, you would also need to keep in mind how much time your backups take to actually be recovered etc. - thankfully, there are tools that can help alleviate these tedious time-consuming tasks: to learn more about how Backup Ninja can make these tasks easier for you and your business, visit the database monitoring page of Backup Ninja.