Backup monitoring

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Automated verification, alerting and reporting across your entire backup estate — in one dashboard.

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See exactly what's protected — and what isn't

Bocada gives IT teams and MSPs one always-current view of data protection health across every backup, storage, virtualization, and PSA platform. No more spreadsheets, guesswork, or missed SLAs.

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BOCADA VS. BACKUP RADAR

See how Bocada compares

Bocada Cloud
Backup Radar
Data Collection Approach
API-first, multi-method ingestion designed for high-scale, multi-system environments.
Primarily email-based parsing with limited API integrations.
Company Focus
Independent, application-agnostic vendor focused solely on data protection oversight and reporting.
Owned by ScalePad; one module within a broader MSP suite, creating incentive to bundle and cross-sell.
Data Protection Ecosystem Coverage
Broad coverage across backup apps, storage, infrastructure, and IT systems; continuously expanding connector library.
Backup application-focused, with limited broader infrastructure coverage.
AI & Automated Intelligence
Native AI layer for querying backup behavior, inventory protection levels, and recommendations.
No native AI capabilities.
Pricing
Flexible subscription options (annual or month-to-month), usage-aligned pricing per monitored resource/TB.
Annual contracts with tier-based licensing regardless of actual usage.
Trial & Support
30-day free trial; dedicated onboarding specialist; 24/7 support + knowledgebase.
No trial period; support details unclear.
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Why teams rely on Bocada

Know the health of every backup environment from one place.

Bocada consolidates backup operations into a single dashboard that highlights what needs attention and filters out what doesn’t — so your team gains complete visibility without jumping between tools

Real-time backup job monitoring across every platform

Cross-platform visibility in a single dashboard

Backup health scoring with clear status

Intelligent alert prioritization to cut noise

Multi-vendor backup and storage support

Plans that scale with your environment

Pay only for what you monitor with scaleable data protection monitoring editions.

Get one month free with yearly

Standard

Monitor, report, and prove recoverability with the essential tools your team needs.

$0.67
per resource/mo, billed annually
Delivery: SaaS
API-based connectors for cloud and SMB applications
Standard backup reports
One custom dashboard
Email notifications
Up to 10 users
1-year data retention
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Ultimate

Optimize data protection oversight with AI, advanced reporting, and intelligent automation.

$1.35
per resource/mo, billed annually
Delivery: SaaS
Everything in Pro, plus...
API-based connectors for enterprise-scale applications
Bocada AI Agent
AI-powered failure diagnostics
Branded subdomain
Unlimited users
10-year data retention
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Enterprise

A fully scalable platform with unlimited capacity, governance, and premium enterprise capabilities.

Custom
per resource/mo, billed annually
Delivery: Self-managed
Everything in Ultimate, plus...
Enterprise storage oversight
Robust AI capabilities
On-prem hosting options
Remediation tracking
Unlimited live support
Unlimited data retention
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INTEGRATIONS

Your data protection ecosystem, unified

Connect backup, storage, virtualization, inventory, PSA, and ITSM tools into a single operational view that surfaces risk, automates workflows, and eliminates blind spots.

Vanta
Vmware
Zerto
Jira
Nutanix
Backup Exec
Avamar
Arcserve
ConnectWise

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Connect your platforms

Point Bocada at the backup, storage, inventory, and ticketing systems you already run.

02

Bocada unifies the data
Performance, coverage, and status normalize into one consistent view.

03

Monitor from one view
Track health, surface gaps, and automate actions without tool-hopping.
TESTIMONIALS

Trusted by IT professionals worldwide

"Bocada Cloud provides us with confidence."

“As a managed service provider, we needed a central location for visibility into the Veeam backups at various client sites. Previously, we relied on Veeam email alerts, but Bocada Cloud provides us with confidence that we are not missing any Veeam alerts.”

Matt Y.

Director of Managed Services, Acruity

"Clear view and reporting of all backups running in Microsoft Azure"

“We have been trying to set up Azure backups reporting with a clear pass/fail output. We found Bocada and started testing! Like magic, reports were clear to read, error messages show up so we can take immediate action.”

Adam T.

AVP/IT Systems Engineer, Kearny Bank

"Great Backup Tracker"

“Bocada Cloud allows for great backup tracking and easy to see backup success across multiple clients. The deployment of Bocada Cloud is fairly easy now and has worked really well for us.”

Cory P.

Director of Managed Services, Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What are some of the biggest differences between Bocada and Backup Radar?
Backup Radar monitors backup jobs and reports on whether they passed or failed, which it does within a defined set of backup applications. Bocada covers the wider data protection scope: backup applications, storage platforms, inventory systems, and DR solutions. That broader data set is what makes the rest possible, including automated unprotected resource auditing, full-lifecycle ticket automation across failures, overruns, disabled jobs, and policy violations, and a native AI layer for querying backup behavior and diagnosing failures.

Bocada prices per monitored resource, meaning a VM, server, or client, so your bill tracks what you actually monitor and moves in both directions as your client base changes. You can pay annually or month to month, onboarding is included, and a bulk retire function removes a departing client’s backups in one action instead of one at a time. Backup Radar works differently: pricing is per client with a 30 client minimum and a $495 onboarding fee. And, they have a required 12-month subscription term. If you run fewer than 30 clients, or a handful of large ones, you are paying for capacity you do not use.

Backup Radar’s use of email push notifications contains information about a backup job’s status, and not much else. It can report whether jobs passed or failed but has no visibility into storage consumption, job size trends, restore activity, or resources that have no backup job at all. Bocada queries the backup, storage, and inventory systems directly, which is why it can surface unprotected assets, track TB growth and storage costs, score backup health across end-customer environments, and trigger on overruns and disabled jobs rather than just failures and warnings.
Bocada pulls policy compliance directly from the connected backup applications, so SLA validation is generated from the systems themselves rather than assembled by your team. Backup Radar’s audit trail is built on manual staff attestation instead of automated policy detection, which means someone has to flag each backup as checked or resolved for the record to exist at all. That difference shows up twice: once as labor, because month-end reporting is only as current as the last person who worked the audit queue, and once as risk, because a gap nobody flagged is a gap the report never shows.
It shapes what gets built. Backup Radar is one module inside a suite of MSP products, so its roadmap competes for engineering attention with everything else in the portfolio. Bocada builds one thing, which means every release cycle goes to data protection monitoring: new connectors monthly, deeper reporting, AI diagnostics, storage and inventory coverage. It also means we have nothing else to sell you. You’ll never get a renewal call about a backup monitoring problem that ends in a quote for four other products.
Easier than most MSPs expect, because you do not have to switch on day one. Start a 30-day trial, point Bocada at the same client environments, and run both side by side. Compare what each tool catches over a few weeks of real backup and data protection activity, then cut over when the answer is obvious. Onboarding includes a dedicated specialist, and multi-tenant discovery creates your client structure automatically rather than making you rebuild it by hand.
We likely already do. Bocada supports over 50 native integrations with backup, storage, PSA, and inventory systems, covering both the major platforms MSPs standardize on and the niche tools that show up in inherited client environments. New connectors ship every month, and the roadmap is built from what customers ask for. If something you monitor genuinely isn’t covered yet, tell us. We can put it in our roadmap.

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