ScalePad Backup Radar

ScalePad Backup Radar

Overview

Backup Radar aggregates backup job results across vendors and scores their health. The API surface is read-only (v3): backup health and backup device inventory per client. Regional: us (default) or eu via X-ScalePad-Region. Discover this domain's tools with scalepad_navigate (domain backup-radar). Requires an active Backup Radar subscription (402 otherwise).

Anti-triggers

Backup Radar reports on jobs other products ran. It never touches the backups themselves:

• Restoring data, browsing recovery points, or running a restore test — none of that exists here; go to the backup product itself (kaseya/datto-bcdr, kaseya/datto-saas-protection, kaseya/spanning, kaseya/unitrends) or the backup-pack (restore-test-verification).
• Retention and RPO policy questions — Backup Radar reports outcomes, not schedules or retention configuration; use the backup-pack (retention-rpo-compliance) or the backup vendor.
• Assets with no backup at all — a device missing from Backup Radar is invisible here by definition. Start from the asset inventory in scalepad-core or the RMM and compare inward.
• The vendor-agnostic "are backups healthy" method — how to read failure streaks, dedupe results across backup products, and decide what to escalate is the backup-pack (backup-job-health); this skill is the Backup Radar calls that feed it.

API Tools

Common Workflows

1. Daily failure sweep — scalepad_br_backups_list_health, paginate fully, then group by client and surface failures and no-result (stale) backups first.
2. Client backup audit — scalepad_br_backups_list_devices for the client's device inventory, cross-checked against scalepad_br_backups_list_health to find devices with no recent successful backup.
3. Drill into one backup — scalepad_br_backups_get_health with the record ID from the list call.

Error Handling

402 means no active Backup Radar subscription. A consistently empty result for a known tenant usually means the wrong region — Backup Radar supports us and eu only.

Best Practices

• Everything is read-only — safe for scheduled/repeated sweeps within the shared 50-req/5-s rate limit.
• Paginate to completion before reporting totals; partial pages undercount failures.
• Pair with Core (scalepad_core_hardware_assets_list) to find servers that have no backup device at all.

Related Skills

• core - asset inventory to compare coverage against
• api-patterns - auth, regions, pagination