Zerto Analytics - Overview

Insight-driven data analytics for a new era of data protection

As IT infrastructures become more complex and demands for performance rise, companies require visibility and control over protected IT environments. Visibility of your entire IT infrastructure (both on-premises or cloud) is imperative to monitor, analyze and plan your environment and resource requirements to ensure zero interruptions. To have confidence that business Service level Agreements (SLAs) are met, you need not only visibility and insights to address existing issues, but also to be able to plan for your future data protection needs.

Zerto Analytics delivers these capabilities through a single interface and one user experience for a comprehensive overview of your entire multi-site, multi-cloud environment. Utilizing metrics such as average recovery point objective (RPO), network performance, and storage consumption, Zerto Analytics delivers real-time and historical insights on the health and protection status of your applications and data. Through Intelligent dashboards you can spot trends, identify anomalies, and troubleshoot issues in network, RPO, and other business SLAs. With these insights, you can eliminate inefficiencies and allocate resources effectively to mitigate data loss, reduce downtime and take control of your data.

New Resource Planner

With Resource Planner, you can ensure your data protection needs are met as your IT environment grows and diversifies. Use the Resource Planner to monitor and perform analysis of your protected environment to determine the required compute, storage and networking resources for any or all virtual machines (VMs) within your environment, both on-premises or in the cloud. Build out your data protection strategy with 'what-if' scenario modeling to plan for VM protection across clouds or on-premises, or to transition from on premises to cloud, or to protect additional VMs within your environment.

Zerto Analytics is developed with an API first approach, therefore, everything that is presented in the GUI, is also available with APIs. The APIs are delivered with Swagger open source that help you develop and test REST integration using standardized examples. This allows to easily populate custom portals with Zerto Analytic content.

Before Getting Started with Zerto Analytics

Verify the following:

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At least 1 ZVM running Zerto 5.0 or higher.

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Enable Zerto SaaS applications including Zerto Analytics, Cloud Control, and Mobile App.check box is selected. This is accessed in the ZVM application in Settings > About.

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Internet access.

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A myZerto account using your corporate email address.

Accessing the Zerto Analytics Portal

Zerto Analytics is accessed from one of the following locations:

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From a URL: https://analytics.zerto.com

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From myZerto: www.zerto.com/myzerto .Sign in using your credentials and select the Analytics tab.

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From the ZVM Application menu tab: Click the Analytics button,

, to open Zerto Analytics in a new browser tab.

Accessing Zerto Mobile

The Zerto Mobile app is available for both iOS or Android operating systems.

Accessing Zerto Analytics APIs

Zerto Analytics is developed with an API first approach, therefore, everything that is presented in the GUI, is also available with APIs. APIs are available the same version as their GUI counterparts.

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Zerto Analytics APIs are available in OpenAPI Specification.

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The documentation can be accessed via the link: https://docs.api.zerto.com/

Using the Zerto Analytics Portal

When accessing Zerto Analytics, the Dashboard tab opens by default. This tab displays a summary of the entire protected environment, including the average RPO and VPG health, site details and topology, active alerts, running tasks and events.

Tip: Use the What’s New and Help widgets in Zerto Analytics to learn more about each of the features available in Zerto Analytics.

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Use the sites topology to identify sites without remote protection, to identify network issues and to identify cloud issues.

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To handle any issues in the ZVM site, in the Dashboard tab > SITES area, click the icon Open ZVM in a new tab. This routes you to the specific ZVM site.

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In the same Sites area, click the Menu button to navigate to the VPGs, Alerts or Tasks for the specified site.

In addition to the Dashboard, there are three additional views that provide details on the overall health of your environment.

See the following sections:

Monitoring Alerts, Events and Tasks in Zerto Analytics

Troubleshooting VPGs in Zerto Analytics

Reviewing Reports in Zerto Analytics

Monitoring Alerts, Events and Tasks in Zerto Analytics

From the Monitoring tab review the active alerts, alerts history, running events and tasks.

To see active alerts, events or tasks from a specific ZVM, use the filter in the top left of the screen .

Events are displayed for the last 24 hours by default. Use the date selector to filter the Events List by date.

To view a history of alerts, select the Events tab and Alert History in the sub menu. Inactive alerts are displayed for the selected time range.

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Click the Alert ID and Event ID to open the help and view the full details for that specific alert or event.

Troubleshooting VPGs in Zerto Analytics

From the VPGs tab, review the list of VPGs with Errors and Warnings. In the VPGs status area, click either VPGs with Warnings or VPGs with Errors to filter the VPGs list.

To review the status of a VPG, click in the column of the VPG you want to review to open the VPG Details page. From here you can view the details of the virtual machines associated with the VPG as well.

If you want to view the details of another VPG, select the VPG from the VPGs drop-down list.

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To further investigate about a selected VPG, click the VPG History button, and select to view either the RPO, Journal or Network Reports page. (For more details about Reports, see Reviewing Reports in Zerto Analytics).

Reviewing Reports in Zerto Analytics

The Zerto Analytics reports provide real-time and historical data analysis. ECE and CSP licenses can view up to 90 days of report history. Use the date controller to filter your reports. Statistics are displayed according to the selected time frame.

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Zoom in to view more granular data by selecting and dragging your mouse over the selected time frame.

From the Reports tab, review the RPO, Journal and Network performance history on the VPGs.

Use the Network reports for reviewing the network history for any VPG or Site. You can also view the network summary for a selected time frame, the network performance history and IOPs history.

Use the RPO reports for viewing a summary to see if RPO SLAs are being met, the RPO history and the RPO breach table for viewing when the specific time breach occurred and the duration of the SLA breach.

Use the Journal reports for understanding if resilience is at risk due to journal storage capacity and plan for storage growth.

End-User Analytics for Service Providers

Service providers can filter their customers in Zerto Analytics using the ZORG filter located at the top of the screen.

Using the ZORG filter, CSPs can see historical data and status for any individual customer.

Additionally, using the Zerto Analytics APIs, CSPs can create custom reports and automate reporting delivery of real-time content to their customers. The APIs can also be used to provide content for customer portals.

Zerto Analytics Product Feature Matrix

The following table lists the available features and from which ZVM version it’s supported.

For further details about new features, access the Zerto Analytics portal and click .

Feature	Zerto 6.5	Zerto 7.0	Zerto 7.5	Comments
Dashboard	P	P	P
VPG Analytics	P	P	P
Storage Analytics	P	P	P	Available from Zerto v6.5 Update 2
Monitoring: Alerts, Tasks, Events	P	P	P
Reporting: RPO, Journal, Network	P	P	P
Planning	O	P	P	Available from Zerto v7.0 Update 1
ZORG Filter (CSP end user)	P	P	P	Not available for Storage tab
90 Days History	P	P	P	ECE and Cloud licenses Standard 30-day
REST API	P	P	P