Notifications

Backup and restore jobs can fail — due to storage connectivity issues, expired credentials, throttling, or other transient errors. If a failure goes unnoticed, your organization's Dynamics 365 data could be left unprotected without anyone knowing.

This risk is greater if the administrator who set up Backup4Dynamics has since left the organization, and no one else is watching for failures.

How to Create an Alert Rule for a Backup and Restore Job

1. Open the Restore or backup container job

1. Open the log and click on the log from the side menu

1. Click on the “New alert rule” as shown in the image below

1. Select “Aggregated logs” and then replace the text below according to the job to trigger the alert rule –

· For Restore Jobs –

ContainerAppConsoleLogs_CL

| where Log_s contains "BACKUP4DYNAMICSRESTOREJOBERROR"

· For Backup Jobs –

ContainerAppConsoleLogs_CL

| where Log_s contains " BACKUP4DYNAMICSBACKUPJOBERROR "

1. In the Measurement section, fill the field below as shown below

1. And fill the Alert logic field values as shown in the image below

1. Now go to the Action tab and click on “Create action group”

1. Fill the action group name and Display name field and click on next

1. In the notification tab select “Email/SMS message/Push/Voice” from the dropdown and enter the name of the notification, a side window will open, enable the checkbox in front of the email and enter the email address to send the alert notification as show in below image

1. Click on the Create button. An action group will be created. The default will be selected in the alert rule, as shown in the image below

1. Now enter the subject of the email, click on the “Details” tab, provide the severity and the name, and click “Review + Create”

1. Your final page will look like this; click Create after reviewing the details

1. Click on “Create”