Technologies/Elasticsearch/elasticsearch.snapshot
ElasticsearchElasticsearchMetric

elasticsearch.snapshot

Snapshot statistics
Dimensions:None
Available on:PrometheusPrometheus (10)

Summary

Provides statistics about snapshot operations including creation progress, completion status, and repository health. Snapshots are critical for backup and disaster recovery. Monitoring this metric reveals snapshot failures, slow snapshot rates indicating I/O bottlenecks, or repository connectivity issues. Failed or slow snapshots compromise data protection, requiring investigation of repository configuration, network connectivity, or storage backend performance.

Interface Metrics (10)
PrometheusPrometheus
Number of indices in the last snapshot
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Timestamp of the latest SUCCESS or PARTIAL snapshot
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Number of snapshots in a repository
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Timestamp of the oldest snapshot
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Last snapshot end timestamp
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Last snapshot failed shards
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Last snapshot number of failures
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Last snapshot start timestamp
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Last snapshot successful shards
Dimensions:None
PrometheusPrometheus
Last snapshot total shards
Dimensions:None
Sources
snapshot_stats_snapshot_number_of_indicesgithub.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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