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title: Email Azure Backup Reports
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description: Create automated tasks to receive periodic reports via email
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ms.topic: how-to
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ms.date: 12/12/2024
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ms.date: 12/10/2025
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ms.service: azure-backup
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author: AbhishekMallick-MS
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ms.author: v-mallicka
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To configure email tasks via Backup Reports, perform the following steps:
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1. Go to **Business Continuity Center** > **Backup Reports** and click on the **Email Report** tab.
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2. Create a task by specifying the following information:
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1. Go to **Resiliency** > **Monitoring + Reporting** > **Reports**.
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1. On the **Reports** pane, select **Backup Reports (consolidated)**.
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1. On the **Backup Reports (consolidated)** pane, select the **Email Report** tab.
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1. Create a task by specifying the following information:
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* **Task Details** - The name of the logic app to be created, and the subscription, resource group, and location in which it should be created. Note that the logic app can query data across multiple subscriptions, resource groups, and locations (as selected in the Report Filters section), but is created in the context of a single subscription, resource group and location.
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* **Data To Export** - The tab which you wish to export. You can either create a single task app per tab, or email all tabs using a single task, by selecting the **All Tabs** option.
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* **Email options**: The email frequency, recipient email ID(s), and the email subject.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/backup-azure-configure-backup-reports/email-tab.png" alt-text="Screenshot shows the Email tab." lightbox="./media/backup-azure-configure-backup-reports/email-tab.png":::
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3. After you click**Submit** and **Confirm**, the logic app will get created. The deployed logic app uses the [Consumption plan](../../articles/logic-apps/single-tenant-overview-compare.md#logic-app-workflow-types-and-environments) pricing. The logic app and the associated API connections are created with the tag **UsedByBackupReports: true** for easy discoverability. You'll need to perform a one-time authorization step for the logic app to run successfully, as described in the section below.
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1. After you select**Submit** and **Confirm**, the logic app will get created. The deployed logic app uses the [Consumption plan](../../articles/logic-apps/single-tenant-overview-compare.md#logic-app-workflow-types-and-environments) pricing. The logic app and the associated API connections are created with the tag **UsedByBackupReports: true** for easy discoverability. You'll need to perform a one-time authorization step for the logic app to run successfully, as described in the section below.
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> [!NOTE]
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> Support for Backup vault workloads (Azure Database for PostgreSQL Server, Azure Blobs, Azure Disks) is added to the logic app templates in April 2023. So, if you've deployed these logic apps on an earlier date, you'll have to redeploy these using the above steps if you want to see data for Backup vault workloads in your email reports.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/backup-azure-configure-backup-reports/logic-apps.png" alt-text="Screenshot shows the Logic Apps." lightbox="./media/backup-azure-configure-backup-reports/logic-apps.png":::
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3. Click on the **API connections** menu item.
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3. Select the **API connections** menu item.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/backup-azure-configure-backup-reports/api-connections.png" alt-text="Screenshot shows the API Connections." lightbox="./media/backup-azure-configure-backup-reports/api-connections.png":::
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* All the charts and graphs shown in the portal are available as inline content in the email. [Learn more](configure-reports.md) about the information shown in Backup Reports.
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* The grids shown in the portal are available as *.csv attachments in the email.
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* The data shown in the email uses all the report-level filters selected by the user in the report, at the time of creating the email task.
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* The data shown in the email uses the report-level filters selected by the user in the report, at the time of creating the email task.
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* Tab-level filters such as **Backup Instance Name**, **Policy Name** and so on, aren't applied. The only exception to this is the **Retention Optimizations** grid in the **Optimize** tab, where the filters for **Daily**, **Weekly**, **Monthly** and **Yearly** RP retention are applied.
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* The time range and aggregation type (for charts) are based on the user’s time range selection in the reports. For example, if the time range selection is last 60 days (translating to weekly aggregation type), and email frequency is daily, the recipient will receive an email every day with charts spanning data taken over the last 60-day period, with data aggregated at a weekly level.
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* This issue could be occurring because the Outlook API connector isn't authorized. To authorize the connection, follow the authorization steps provided above.
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* This issue could also be occurring if you've specified an incorrect email recipient while creating the logic app. To verify that the email recipient has been specified correctly, you can go to the logic app in the Azure portal, open the Logic App designer and select email step to see whether the correct email IDs are being used.
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* This issue could also be occurring if you've specified an incorrect email recipient while creating the logic app. To verify that the email recipient has been specified correctly, you can go to the logic app in the Azure portal, open the Logic App designer, and select email step to see whether the correct email IDs are being used.
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### Scenario 2: Receiving an error email that says that the logic app failed to execute to completion
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### Scenario 3: Error in authorizing Microsoft 365 API connection
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When attempting to authorize the Microsoft 365 API connection, you might see an error of the form _Test connection failed. Error 'REST API is not yet supported for this mailbox. This error can occur for sandbox (test) accounts or for accounts that are on a dedicated (on-premises) mail server._
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When attempting to authorize the Microsoft 365 API connection, you might see an error of the form _Test connection failed. Error 'REST API isn't yet supported for this mailbox. This error can occur for sandbox (test) accounts or for accounts that are on a dedicated (on-premises) mail server._
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This error can occur if the mailbox is on a dedicated Microsoft Exchange Server and isn't a valid Office 365 mailbox. [Learn more](/connectors/office365/#common-errors)
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Learn about [how to authorize the Azure Monitor Logs connection](#authorize-connections-to-azure-monitor-logs-and-office-365).
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1. Once deployed, go to the logic app in the Azure portal and click**Logic app designer** from the menu.
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1. Once deployed, go to the logic app in the Azure portal and select**Logic app designer** from the menu.
1.Click**Change connection** and click the *information icon*.
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1.Select**Change connection** and select the *information icon*.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/backup-azure-configure-backup-reports/email-information-icon.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing to click information icon.":::
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:::image type="content" source="./media/backup-azure-configure-backup-reports/email-information-icon.png" alt-text="Screenshot shows how to select information icon.":::
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1. A popup opens where you can select the authentication type for GCC High.
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You can also directly update the ARM template, which is used for deploying the logic app, to ensure that the GCC High endpoint is used for authorization. Follow these steps:
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1. Go to the **Email Report** tab, provide the required inputs, and then click**Submit**.
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1. Go to the **Email Report** tab, provide the required inputs, and then select**Submit**.
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