Follow the steps below to create an integration between Comet Backup and Backup Radar. You can connect through the Comet API or through Comet's job report emails.

Use the API where you can. If your Comet admin account uses multi-factor authentication, use the email method instead.

Integrating with Comet API

1. In Backup Radar, navigate to Integration > Backup Integrations.
   
    
2. Click the + button on the Comet tile.
   
    
3. Enter the following information and click Save:
   
   a. Profile Name: Name this backup anything you'd like (e.g. Comet Backups).
   b. Server Address: Enter your Comet Backup server address. A quick way to find your server address is to log in to: https://account.cometbackup.com/my_servers. 
   
   c. Login: Enter the login you use to access your Comet Backup admin dashboard.
   d. Password: Enter the password you use to access your Comet Backup admin dashboard.

Integrating with Comet Backup Emails

Follow the steps below to send Comet's job reports to Backup Radar.

1. In the Comet Management Console, open the user whose backups you want to monitor and enable Email backup reports to this account.
   To send reports for every user instead, use Settings > Email Reporting.
    
2. Add an email report and set the report type to Immediate job notification. Summary, grouped status and recent activity reports aren't supported.
    
3. Enter your Backup Radar email address as the recipient.
   
   Comet's job reports don't include a company name, so we recommend Using Plus Addressing to create a variation of your email address for each customer.
    
4. Leave the report unfiltered so Backup Radar receives successful jobs as well as failures.
    
5. Click Save.
    
6. If you have additional users, repeat these steps for each user you wish to receive email notifications about.

The email notifications that land in your Backup Radar email inbox will look something like this:

How Backup Radar reads Comet emails

Each job report creates one result in Backup Radar:

• Device Name: the Device value in the report.
• Job Name: the Protected Item value in the report. If there's no Protected Item, the device name is used.
• Date: the job's Started time.

A device with more than one Protected Item, such as one backing up to the cloud and one to a NAS, shows as a separate backup for each Protected Item.

Monitoring Comet by email before November 5, 2026?

Before this date, Backup Radar used the device name as the job name, so all Protected Items on a device reported into one backup. New results now go to a new backup for each Protected Item, and the original backups stop receiving results.

Activate the new backups, then retire the original ones. See Retiring or Deleting your backups.