In the first place, you need to have a dedicated email account that is only checked by PRTG.
There are three steps involved in this procedure. THREE STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL BACKUP MONITORING You can read more in my article Windows Server Backup: Configure Email Notifications. In combination with the PowerShell script, Task Scheduler can trigger email notification and the PRTG IMAP sensor can search for the keywords. Windows Server Backup doesn’t support email notification, but it can generate log entries upon every successful or failed backup job. But it also might happen just the opposite, such as with Windows Server Backup. Nowadays, it is common that commercial backup solutions support email notifications.
Source: WHAT IF YOUR BACKUP server DOESN’T SUPPORT SMTP? In other words, your backup server sends an email notification upon the failed backup job, the PRTG IMAP sensor looks for the keyword “failed” in the subject or body message, puts the sensor into a down state and informs the IT Admin. Once the backup server triggers email notification upon successful or failed backup operations, the PRTG IMAP sensor checks email content, looks for specific keywords and changes the sensor state accordingly. PRTG IMAP sensor monitors an email server using the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). Today’s approach will be a bit different, a universal one that can be used to monitor ANY backup solution by using a PRTG IMAP sensor. I recently published an article Monitoring Altaro VM Backup Jobs with PRTG where I explained both approaches. You can even develop a script that will check specific backup metrics, import it to the PRTG, and visualize it in the sensor.
The monitoring can be done by using different technologies, from event logs to API. PRTG Network Monitors enables you to monitor your backup operations and keep an eye on the health state of your backup jobs.
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