Can I monitor and report on Storage data in Bocada Cloud?

Bocada Cloud isn't just useful for advanced backup monitoring and reporting - you can also monitor and report on your Storage environment to better understand utilization, trends and costs.

Storage Package - Pricing & Subscription Plans

You can add Storage Monitoring and Reporting to any paid subscription plan by simply connecting your Bocada Cloud account to one or more storage applications and collecting storage data. Learn more about pricing for storage monitoring. 

Or, you can subscribe to a Storage-only subscription plan focused on storage management alone. 

Supported Storage Applications

Bocada Cloud supports Cloud-based storage applications, including all S3-compatible storage tools, through API connections. See the list of storage application connectors in Bocada Cloud. 

Coming soon, Bocada Cloud will support installed storage applications such as Data Domain, PowerScale OneFS and EMC/Unity. 

Storage Reporting

Storage Utilization Report

The Storage Utilization report enables you to see all of your connected storage data in one place to better understand and compare how much data is being consumed, including trends over time and a forecast for the future. 

The report defaults to displaying the last 30 days for each connected storage device. You can click the trend icon in the far-left data column to view an individual device to see the utilization trend. 

You can edit the report criteria by clicking the three-dot menu in the top right corner of the screen to view the data by one or multiple organizations; in a specific date range; or you can drill-down into the storage unit level. 

Cloud Storage Costs Report

It can be challenging to understand the cost of storing backup data in Cloud storage applications which is where the Cloud Storage Costs report can be beneficial. Currently supporting AWS & Azure, this report shows you how much your backups are costing on a daily or monthly basis. 

Click the trend icon to view a cost trend over time for each storage service (as in the screen shot below). To view a specific date range in days or months, click the three-dot menu at the top right of the report grid to Edit the report criteria. 

To enable cost information to be collected, follow these steps:

• Azure: to collect cost information from Azure, add a new or edit an existing Azure Backup connection. Cost data will be collected automatically at no additional cost to your Azure account. 
• AWS: to collect cost information, add a new or edit an existing AWS Backup connection. On the connection configuration page, select "Yes" in the Collect Costs field. Then you can either collect data from all regions, or specify one or more regions. Note: collecting AWS cost data may incur additional costs in your AWS account due to the use of the AWS Cost Explorer API. 

Dashboard - Storage Widgets

Once you connect to your storage data in Bocada Cloud, you'll see two storage widgets on your Dashboard populate with information, including a Storage Utilization Pie Chart, as well as a Storage Utilization Trends graph, across all connected storage systems.