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Yandex Monitoring metric reference

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Updated at July 20, 2026
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This section describes Cloud Backup metrics exported to Monitoring.

The name label contains the metric name.

Labels shared by all Cloud Backup metrics:

Label

Value

service

Service ID: backup

resource_id

ID of a VM in Compute Cloud or BareMetal server in Yandex BareMetal

resource_name

Compute Cloud VM or BareMetal server name

resource_type

Resource type. The possible values are:

  • agent: Cloud Backup agent.
  • vm: Compute Cloud VM or BareMetal server.
  • backup: Backup.

Service metrics:

Metric name
Type, units

Description

agent_alive
DGAUGE

Cloud Backup agent activity indicator. The possible values are:

  • 1: Agent is active.
  • 0: Agent is inactive. The system is not creating backups.The user’s attention is required.

Resource type: agent.

agent_version_available
DGAUGE

Availability indicator for a new Cloud Backup agent version. The possible values are:

  • 1: Update is available.
  • 0: Latest version is in use.

Resource type: agent.

protected
DGAUGE, count

Number of Compute Cloud VMs and BareMetal servers covered by Cloud Backup.

Resource type: vm.

BackupError
DGAUGE, count

Number of backup creation errors. Additional labels:

  • action: Action type.
  • event_type: Event type.
  • level: Logging level.
  • policy_id: Backup policy ID.
  • policy_name: Name of the backup policy.

Resource type: backup.

used_space
DGAUGE, bytes

Storage used by backups

Resource type: backup.

Useful linksUseful links

  • Viewing backup statistics
  • Configuring Yandex Monium alerts for Yandex Cloud Backup resources

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