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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Tutorial - Monitor alerts and metrics in Azure Business Continuity Center |
| 3 | +description: In this tutorial, learn how to monitor alerts and configure notifications for your business continuity estate using Azure Business Continuity center. |
| 4 | +ms.topic: tutorial |
| 5 | +ms.date: 12/11/2023 |
| 6 | +ms.service: azure-business-continuity-center |
| 7 | +ms.custom: |
| 8 | + - ignite-2023 |
| 9 | +author: AbhishekMallick-MS |
| 10 | +ms.author: v-abhmallick |
| 11 | +--- |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +# Tutorials: Monitor alerts and metrics for your business continuity estate (preview) |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +This tutorial describes how Azure Business Continuity Center (preview) allows you to view alerts across Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery, configure notifications, view metrics, and take appropriate action. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +## Monitor alerts |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +Azure Business Continuity Center allows you to monitor alerts that are raised for your critical events in your backup and disaster recovery events. You can view any built-in alerts that were fired by solutions, such as Azure Backup or Azure Site Recovery, and alerts fired based on custom alert rules on metrics. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +Follow these steps: |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +1. In **Azure Business Continuity Center**, select **Alerts view**. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | + The count of all alert rules appears that have at least one or more fired alerts in the selected time range. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +2. Filter the list by *severity of alert*, *category of alert*, *time range* (up to last 15 days), and other parameters. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +3. The *Impacted Items count* in the grid shows the number of resources on which an alert corresponding to that alert rule was fired. To view the impacted items, select **View impacted items** in the context menu to view all alerts that were triggered due to that alert rule. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + You can then review each alert and take appropriate action. |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +## Configure notifications |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +To route alerts to the notification channels, create an alert processing rule and an action group. An alert processing rule is a rule that specifies which alerts should be routed to a particular notification channel, and the action group represents the notification channel. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +>[!Note] |
| 39 | +>Any action group supported by Azure Monitor (for example, email, webhooks, functions, logic apps, etc.) are supported for the backup and disaster recovery alerts also. |
| 40 | +
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| 41 | +To configure email notifications for your alerts, follow these steps: |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +1. Go to **Azure Business Continuity Center** > **Alerts**, and then select **Create Alert Processing Rule**. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +2. Under **Scope**, select *scope of the alert processing rule*, and then apply the rule for all the resources in a subscription. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + You can make other customizations to the scope by applying filters. For example, generating notification for alert of a certain severity, generating notifications only for selected alert rules, etc. |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +3. On **Rule settings**, select **Apply action group** and **Create action group** (or use an existing one). It is the destination to which the notification for an alert should be sent. For example, an email address. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +4. To create an action group, on the **Basics** tab, select the *name of the action group*, the *subscription*, and the *resource group* under which it must be created. |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +5. On the **Notifications** tab, select the *destination of the notification* as **Email**, **SMS Message**, or **Push/ Voice**, and then enter the *recipient's email ID* and other required details. |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +6. Select **Review+Create** > **Create** to deploy the action group. The creation of the action group leads you back to the alert processing rule creation. The created action group appears in the Rule settings page. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +7. On the **Scheduling** tab, select **Always**. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +8. On the **Details** tab, specify the subscription, resource group and name of the alert processing rule being created. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +9. Add *Tags* if needed and select **Review + Create** > **Create**. The alert processing rule will be active in a few minutes. |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +## View metrics |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +You can use Azure Business Continuity Center to view built-in metrics for business continuity scenarios, and enable alerts based on these metric values. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +>[!Note] |
| 68 | +>Currently, only metrics for Azure Backup are supported (Backup Health Events and Restore Health Events). [Learn more](../backup/metrics-overview.md) about the supported metrics and their definitions. |
| 69 | +
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| 70 | +To view metrics, follow these steps: |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +1. Go to **Azure Business Continuity Center** and select the **Metrics** tab to open the **Azure Monitor metrics explorer**. |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +2. Select the *resource(s)* for which you want to see metrics. For example, in Azure Backup scenarios, you have to choose a *vault* (or a *group of vaults* in a subscription and region). |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +3. Select the *metric* you want to view, for example, *Backup Health events*. |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +4. Use the *filters* to further see the metric values at lower levels of granularity, for example, a particular protected item in the vault. |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +5. To create alert rules based on the value of the metric, select **New Alert Rule** at the top of the *metrics chart*, which leads you to the metric alert rules creation experience. [Learn more](../backup/metrics-overview.md#configure-alerts-and-notifications-on-your-metrics) about supported metric alert scenarios. |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +## Next steps |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +- [Configure datasources](./tutorial-configure-protection-datasource.md) |
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