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Backup central is down

Symptom

A CustomerBackupCentralDown alert is firing.

Observations

Here are the details on the alert:

Alert: CustomerBackupCentralDown

PropertyValue
Expressionup{app="backup-central"} == 0
Delay1 hour
Labelsteam

Annotations:

  • summary
  • description
  • tenant
  • cluster_id
  • cluster_name
  • pod

Solutions

This section provides solutions that should help resolve the issue in most cases.

Investigate why Backup central is down

Possible causes for the backup central not running:

  • Metrics are not being collected from backup central: missing ServiceMonitor, misconfigured ServiceMonitor, metrics from cluster are not being collected
  • Backup central is crashlooping / restarting
  • Backup central is not installed