Technologies/Elasticsearch/elasticsearch.slm
ElasticsearchElasticsearchMetric

elasticsearch.slm

SLM operations
Dimensions:None
Available on:DatadogDatadog (4)PrometheusPrometheus (9)

Summary

Tracks the status and health of snapshot lifecycle management (SLM) policies. SLM automates snapshot creation for backup and disaster recovery. Monitoring this metric reveals policy execution failures, missed snapshot schedules, or repository connectivity issues. Failed SLM policies leave clusters vulnerable to data loss during failures.

Interface Metrics (13)
DatadogDatadog
The total number of snapshot deletion failures.
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Total snapshot deletion failures
Dimensions:None
DatadogDatadog
The total number of snaphots.
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Total snapshots taken
Dimensions:None
DatadogDatadog
The total number of failed snapshots.
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Total snapshots failed
Dimensions:None
DatadogDatadog
The total number of deleted snapshots.
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Total snapshots deleted
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Operating status of SLM
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Retention run deletion time
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Total failed retention runs
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Total retention runs
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Total timed out retention runs
Dimensions:None
Sources
elasticsearch.slm.snapshot_deletion_failuresgithub.com
slm_stats_total_snapshot_deletion_failures_totalgithub.com
elasticsearch.slm.snapshots_takengithub.com
elasticsearch.slm.snapshots_failedgithub.com
elasticsearch.slm.snapshots_deletedgithub.com
Related Insights (1)
Snapshot Lifecycle Policy Failurescritical

Failed snapshot operations risk data loss and violate backup SLAs. SLM policy failures can result from repository unavailability, insufficient permissions, or storage quota issues.

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