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 # Monitor your backups with Backup Explorer
 
-As organizations back up more and more machines to the cloud, it becomes important to monitor backups efficiently. A good start is to establish a central location for viewing operational information across a large estate.
+As organizations back up more and more machines to the cloud, it becomes important to monitor these backups efficiently. The best way to begin is to create and use a central location for viewing operational information across a large estate.
 
-The Backup Explorer workbook is a built-in Azure Monitor workbook that gives Azure Backup customers such a central location. Backup Explorer provides a single place for performing operational monitoring activities across the entire Backup estate on Azure. It spans tenants, locations, subscriptions, resource groups, and vaults. Broadly, Backup Explorer provides the following capabilities:
+Backup Explorer is a built-in Azure Monitor workbook that gives Azure Backup customers a reliable central location. Backup Explorer provides a single place for monitoring operational activities across the entire Backup estate on Azure, spanning tenants, locations, subscriptions, resource groups, and vaults. Broadly, Backup Explorer provides the following capabilities:
 
-* **At-scale perspective**: An aggregated view of the backup items, jobs, alerts, policies, and resources that aren't configured for backup across the entire backup estate. 
-* **Drill-down analysis**: You can choose to get detailed information about each of the entities (jobs, alerts, policies, and backup items) all in one place.
-* **Actionable interfaces**: After you identify an issue, you can choose to perform certain actions by going seamlessly to the backup item or the Azure resource.
+* **At-scale perspective**: Get an aggregated view of the backup items, jobs, alerts, policies, and resources that aren't yet configured for backup across the entire estate. 
+* **Drill-down analysis**: Display detailed information about each of your jobs, alerts, policies, and backup items, all in one place.
+* **Actionable interfaces**: After you identify an issue, you can resolve it by going seamlessly to the relevant backup item or Azure resource.
 
 These capabilities are provided out-of-box by native integration with Azure Resource Graph and Azure Monitor workbooks.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > * Backup Explorer is currently available only for Azure virtual machines (VMs) data.
-> * Backup Explorer is meant to be an operational dashboard for viewing information about your backups over the most recent 7 days (maximum).
-> * Currently, customizing the Backup Explorer template is not supported. Also, we do not recommend writing custom automations on Azure Resource Graph data.
+> * Backup Explorer is meant to be an operational dashboard for viewing information about your backups over the last 7 days (maximum).
+> * Currently, customizing the Backup Explorer template is not supported. 
+> * We do not recommend writing custom automations on Azure Resource Graph data.
 
 ## Get started
 
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 ## Backup Explorer use cases
 
-Backup Explorer is composed of multiple tabs, each tab providing detailed information about a specific kind of backup artifact (for example, backup items, jobs, or policies). This section provides a brief overview of each of the tabs. The videos provide sample use cases for each backup artifact, along with descriptions of the various available controls.
+Backup Explorer displays multiple tabs, each providing detailed information about a specific backup artifact (for example, a backup item, job, or policy). This section provides a brief overview of each of the tabs. The videos provide sample use cases for each backup artifact, along with descriptions of the available controls.
 
 ### The Summary tab
 
-The **Summary** tab provides a quick glance at the overall condition of your backup estate. You can view information such as the number of items being protected, the number of items for which protection hasn't been enabled, or how many jobs were successful in the last 24 hours. 
+The **Summary** tab provides a quick glance at the overall condition of your backup estate. For example, you can view the number of items being protected, the number of items for which protection hasn't been enabled, or how many jobs were successful in the last 24 hours.
+
 
 > [!VIDEO https://www.microsoft.com/videoplayer/embed/RE4nQYd]
 
 ### The Backup Items tab
 
-You can filter and view each of your backup items by subscription, vault, and other characteristics. By selecting the name of a backup item, you can open the Azure pane for that item. For example, from the table, you might observe that the last backup failed for item *X*. Selecting *X* opens up the Backup pane for this item, where you can trigger an on-demand backup operation.
+You can filter and view each of your backup items by subscription, vault, and other characteristics. By selecting the name of a backup item, you can open the Azure pane for that item. For example, from the table, you might observe that the last backup failed for item *X*. By selecting *X*, you can open the item's **Backup** pane, where you can trigger an on-demand backup operation.
+
 
 > [!VIDEO https://www.microsoft.com/videoplayer/embed/RE4nQYc]
 
 ### The Jobs tab
 
-By going to the **Jobs** tab, you can view the details of all the jobs that were triggered over the last seven days. Here, you can filter by Job Operation, Job Status, and Error Code (in the case of failed jobs).
+By going to the **Jobs** tab, you can view the details of all the jobs that were triggered over the last 7 days. Here, you can filter by *Job Operation*, *Job Status*, and *Error Code* (in the case of failed jobs).
+
 
 > [!VIDEO https://www.microsoft.com/videoplayer/embed/RE4nOrh]
 
 ### The Alerts tab
 
-By selecting the **Alerts** tab, you can view details of all alerts that were generated on your vaults over the last seven days. You can filter records by the type of the alert (for example, Backup Failure or Restore Failure), the current status of the alert (for example, Active or Resolved), and the alert severity (for example, Critical, Warning, or Information). You can also select the link to the Azure VM to go to the VM and take the necessary action.
+By selecting the **Alerts** tab, you can view details of all alerts that were generated on your vaults over the last 7 days. You can filter alerts by type (*Backup Failure* or *Restore Failure*), by current status (*Active* or *Resolved*), and severity (*Critical*, *Warning*, or *Information*). You can also select a link to go the Azure VM and take any necessary action.
+
 
 > [!VIDEO https://www.microsoft.com/videoplayer/embed/RE4nTxe]
 
 ### The Policies tab
 
-By selecting the **Policies** tab, you  can view key information about all the backup policies that have been created across your backup estate. You can see how many items are associated with each policy, along with the retention range and backup frequency that are specified by each policy.
+By selecting the **Policies** tab, you can view key information about all the backup policies that have been created across your backup estate. You can view the number of items associated with each policy, along with the retention range and backup frequency specified by the policy.
+
 
 > [!VIDEO https://www.microsoft.com/videoplayer/embed/RE4nLKV]
 
 ### The Backup Not Enabled tab
 
-It is important for the backup admin of an organization to quickly identify which machines in the organization do not yet have backup enabled, so that it can be enabled for all machines that need protection. To view this information and perform this task, select the **Backup Not Enabled** tab.
+Backup should be enabled for all machines that require protection. With Backup Explorer, backup administrators can quickly identify which machines in an organization are not yet protected by backup. To view this information, select the **Backup Not Enabled** tab.
+
+The **Backup Not Enabled** pane displays a table with a list of unprotected machines. Your organization might assign different tags to production machines and test machines, or to machines that serve a variety of functions. Because each class of machines needs a separate backup policy, filtering by tags helps you view information that's specific to each. Selecting the name of any machine redirects you to that machine's **Configure Backup** pane, where you can choose to apply an appropriate backup policy.
 
-The **Backup Not Enabled** pane displays a table with a list of unprotected machines. Your organization might assign different tags to production machines and test machines, or machines serving different functions. Because each class of machines needs a separate backup policy, filtering by tags helps you view information that's specific to each. Selecting the name of any machine redirects you to that machine's **Configure Backup** pane, where you can choose to apply an appropriate backup policy.
 
 > [!VIDEO https://www.microsoft.com/videoplayer/embed/RE4nQXZ]
 
 ## Export to Excel
 
-By selecting the down arrow at the top right of any table or chart, you can export its contents as an Excel spreadsheet. The contents are exported as is, with existing filters applied. To export more rows of a table to Excel, you can increase the number of rows displayed on the page by using the **Rows Per Page** drop-down list at the top of each tab.
+You can export the contents of any table or chart as an Excel spreadsheet. The contents are exported as is, with existing filters applied. To export additional table rows, you can increase the number of rows to be displayed on the page by using the **Rows Per Page** drop-down list at the top of each tab.
 
 ## Pin to the dashboard
 
 You can select the "pin" icon at the top of each table or chart to pin it to your Azure portal dashboard. Pinning this information helps you create a customized dashboard that's tailored to display the information that's most important to you.
 
 ## Cross-tenant views
 
-If you're an Azure Lighthouse user with delegated access to subscriptions across multiple tenant environments, you can use the default subscription filter. By selecting the filter icon at the top right of the Azure portal, you can display all the subscriptions that you want to see data for. By using this feature, you enable Backup Explorer to aggregate information about all vaults across these subscriptions. To learn more, see [What is Azure Lighthouse?](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/lighthouse/overview).
+If you're an Azure Lighthouse user with delegated access to subscriptions across multiple tenant environments, you can use the default subscription filter. You display the subscriptions that you want to see data for by selecting the "filter" icon at the top right of the Azure portal. When you use this feature, Backup Explorer aggregates information about all the vaults across all selected subscriptions. To learn more, see [What is Azure Lighthouse?](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/lighthouse/overview).
 
 ## Next steps
 
-[Learn how to use Azure Monitor for getting insights on your backup data](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/backup/backup-azure-monitoring-use-azuremonitor)
+[Learn how to use Azure Monitor for getting insights on your backup data](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/backup/backup-azure-monitoring-use-azuremonitor)
