Backup and restore operations export several metrics using the expvars interface. These are available at the /debug/vars endpoint of Vtbackup's and VTTablet's http status pages. More details can be found here.

Backup metrics #

backup_duration_seconds #

backup_duration_seconds times the duration of a backup.

Restore metrics #

restore_duration_seconds #

restore_duration_seconds times the duration of a restore.

Example #

A snippet of vtbackup metrics after running it against the local example after creating the initial cluster

(Processed with jq for readability.)

{
  "backup_duration_seconds": 4,
  "restore_duration_seconds": 6
}