ABSTRACT

Monitoring and reporting are often two sides of the same coin. It is almost impossible to build reports without having harvested useful data in the monitoring phase, and those reports allow the business to determine potential new areas. Monitoring and reporting of data protection within an organization must be a gestalt. While each individual component (backup/recovery, storage, replication, etc.) might have their own individual monitoring and reporting options, it’s important the business be able to see their health and trends as a whole. The ultimate strategy therefore of monitoring and reporting within data protection must be to have a single source of truth; a single platform that can reveal the entire health of the data protection environment. Ideally, all monitoring would be real-time—that is, an event occurs, and is immediately detected and analyzed by the business. Another approach is “semi real-time”: being able to monitor events as frequently as the business needs, even if it is not actually in real-time.