PowerProtect Data Manager: REST API - Advanced Reporting (Part 3)

There are some very interesting metrics contained within PowerProtect Data Manager to help you make informed decisions about your backup and recovery environment.

Today we are going to highlight the stats portion of the json response body from the /activities REST API end point.

Collecting and trending these metrics over time can provide some useful insights, at the asset level, to assist in better understanding the environment.

Below are some common questions that customers have with respect to their backup environments.

• Which are the fasting growing assets?
• Which assets are consuming the most of your underlying storage resources?
• Which assets have the best dedupe and compression?
• Which assets have the worst dedupe and compression?
• Which assets take the longest to backup?

and the list goes on...

The metrics contained within PowerProtect Data Manager can assist in getting you the answers you need.

The concrete example written in PowerShell 7 can be found here.

With that... I'll leave you to enjoy the rest of your week!