Hi All
I would like to clarify the options available for monitoring Veeam.
I have looked at the Extensions available in Dynatrace Hub and there does not appear to be a Veeam extension.
Therefore, the options available appears to be:
- Ingestion of Windows Event Logs related to Veeam on the Veeam servers e.g. Veeam backup servers and proxy servers
- Retrieving information from the Veeam API
- SNMP traps
- Custom ActiveGate extension
For Option 2, is there functionality in Dynatrace that could query the Veeam API and use the results as a source for Dynatrace?
Another option appears to involve using Powershell scripts to query the Veeam API, but then the results would need to be pushed into Dynatrace.
I am not sure what would be running this Powershell script and what endpoint or methodology would then be used to ingest the data into Dynatrace.
Option 3 sounds reasonable, but I am not sure if the SNMP traps provide as much information as the logging or what is available via the API.
Option 4 may be an option but presumably based on the methods above e.g. combination of SNMP traps and API calls.
I would be curious to hear if anyone else has had to monitor Veeam from Dynatrace and what approach worked for them.
References:
Veeam Windows Event logs:
https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/veeam-events-in-the-windows-event-log-no-way-3079
Veeam REST API:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/references/vbr/13/rest/1.3-rev1/tag/SectionAbout
SNMP traps:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/archive/backup/95/hyperv/snmp_options.html
