Alert rule: AppCatBackupJobError

Overview

This alert triggers, if the backup job failed for any given AppCat service.

Steps for Debugging

All current backup solutions depend on jobs to do the actual work. To figure out what went wrong with the backup, connect to the K8s cluster and look at the logs of the failed job.

Find failed job

kubectl -n $instanceNamespace get jobs
kubectl -n $instanceNamespace logs job/$failedJobName

The most probable cause for failing backups is unreachable Object Storage or permission issues.