# Monitoring Amazon Backup
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Amazon Backup works with other Amazon tools to empower you to monitor its workloads. These tools include the following:
+ [Amazon Backup console dashboards](backup-dashboards.md)
  + The jobs dashboard brings job health monitoring, where you can view metrics showing job successes and failures, filtered by reasons, accounts, Region, and resource type.
  + The jobs dashboard is available in Regions where Amazon Backup Audit Manager is supported. See [Feature availability by Amazon Web Services Region](backup-feature-availability.md#features-by-region) for those Regions. All other Regions will be able to access the [CloudWatch Dashboard](cloudwatch.md#cloudwatch-dashboard).
+ **Amazon CloudWatch** and **Amazon EventBridge** to monitor Amazon Backup processes.
  + You can use CloudWatch to track metrics, create alarms, and view dashboards. For more information, see [Amazon Backup metrics with Amazon CloudWatch](cloudwatch.md).
  + You can use EventBridge to view and monitor Amazon Backup events. For more information, see [Monitoring Amazon Backup events using Amazon EventBridge](eventbridge.md).
+ **Amazon CloudTrail** to monitor Amazon Backup API calls. You can identify the time, source IP, users, and accounts making those calls. For more information, see [Logging Amazon Backup API calls with CloudTrail](logging-using-cloudtrail.md).
+ **Amazon Simple Notification Service** (Amazon SNS) to subscribe to Amazon Backup-related topics such as backup, restore, and copy events. For more information, see [Notification options with Amazon Backup](backup-notifications.md).