Azure: How can I receive an email notification when a backup fails?

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Azure: How can I receive an email notification when a backup fails?

Martin Thong 60

I manage 100+ subscriptions, each with 1-3 recovery service vaults. Each vault has 1-3 virtual machines. I need a simple solution that will notify me by email when a backup has failed. This solution must scale, as I create 10 new subscriptions every month. Are there any scripts available that I can use to set this up?

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Sadiqh Ahmed 49,671 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

Hello @Martin Thong Thank you for reaching out to us on Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to help!

Based on the details provided, I understand that you are looking for a solution to receive email notifications for backup failures for 100+ subscriptions.

You need to create one notification rule (alert processing rule) per subscription to get notified on backup failures, you can use templates/scripts to automate this and run it for each subscription. This doc gives some options along with sample ARM templates https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/backup/move-to-azure-monitor-alerts#set-up-notifications-for-azure-monitor-alerts

Hope this helps. Please write back to us if you need further assistance!

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Martin Thong 60 Reputation points

2024-03-06T07:18:01.3066667+00:00

I prefer it to be something that I can set at the Tenant or Management Group level.
Sadiqh Ahmed 49,671 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2024-03-07T14:17:11.1866667+00:00

@Martin Thong AFAIK, this is not supported today.
Vedran 61 Reputation points

2025-03-17T10:34:54.95+00:00

Is it possible to achieve same with policy ?
Sadiqh Ahmed 49,671 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-03-20T17:41:12.23+00:00

I do not see any built policy for managing Azure Monitoring Alerts which can help you configuring the Azure Monitoring Alerts for the Backup.

As described in the document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/backup/backup-azure-monitoring-alerts?tabs=recovery-services-vaults, You can leverage ABC Center to manage monitoring alerts across the vaults where they have an option to enable Azure Monitoring Alerts and disable classic alerts (To avoid duplicate alerts) using “Manage Built-in Alert Settings for resources”.

Once the Monitoring Alerts is configured, you can then create an Alert Processing using Manage Alert Processing Rules from the below and set the scope across the desired vaults under subscription to send an email on failed alerts.

You can manage these enabling/disabling settings from Azure Policy, but you would need to create a customer policy for that and define below template.

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Martin Thong 60 Reputation points

2024-03-06T07:18:01.3066667+00:00

I prefer it to be something that I can set at the Tenant or Management Group level.
Sadiqh Ahmed 49,671 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2024-03-07T14:17:11.1866667+00:00

@Martin Thong AFAIK, this is not supported today.
Vedran 61 Reputation points

2025-03-17T10:34:54.95+00:00

Is it possible to achieve same with policy ?
Sadiqh Ahmed 49,671 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-03-20T17:41:12.23+00:00

I do not see any built policy for managing Azure Monitoring Alerts which can help you configuring the Azure Monitoring Alerts for the Backup.

As described in the document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/backup/backup-azure-monitoring-alerts?tabs=recovery-services-vaults, You can leverage ABC Center to manage monitoring alerts across the vaults where they have an option to enable Azure Monitoring Alerts and disable classic alerts (To avoid duplicate alerts) using “Manage Built-in Alert Settings for resources”.

Once the Monitoring Alerts is configured, you can then create an Alert Processing using Manage Alert Processing Rules from the below and set the scope across the desired vaults under subscription to send an email on failed alerts.

You can manage these enabling/disabling settings from Azure Policy, but you would need to create a customer policy for that and define below template.

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