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  1. Metric reference
  2. Cloud Backup

Yandex Cloud Backup metrics

Written by
Yandex Cloud
Updated at November 11, 2025

This section describes Cloud Backup metrics delivered 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:

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

Service metrics:

Metric name
Type, units

Description

agent_alive
DGAUGE

Cloud Backup agent 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.

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.

protected
DGAUGE, count

Number of Compute Cloud VMs and BareMetal servers using Cloud Backup

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.

used_space
DGAUGE, bytes

Storage used by backups

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