Report operations

This section describes how to add/edit/delete report.

A report contains the following information: a monitor’s status over time (known as the monitor’s timeline), its performance over time, its response time for successful transactions over time, and its status distribution.

Reports can be sent by email at a specified scheduled time or immediately upon request.

Reports are organized using tags from the monitors.

Report types

When creating a report you first pick its type, which determines both the scope selector and the content of the generated email:

• Per monitor type — browser script (exec), URL, API, TCP, UDP, ping, nslookup, DB, system, SNMP device, WMI device. One report is built and sent per monitor in the computed list: status timeline, performance graph, transaction response times and status distribution over the selected data range. For browser-script monitors a status summary table is also sent.
• Application — one report per selected application, aggregating the health of all monitors belonging to the app (see App definition and data modelling).
• All — a global summary report across the whole monitor inventory visible to the report owner.
• Infrastructure — a fleet report scoped by probes and/or locations instead of monitors: probe health and capacity indicators over the data range.
• Comparison — compares several monitors of the same type side by side (status or health/errors) over the same period; see Compare operations.

On-error screenshots captured by browser-script monitors can also be pulled into a dedicated screenshots report from the monitor’s detail view.

Scope preview

While editing a report, the form can resolve the current tag/monitor selection server-side — without saving — and display the resulting list of monitors (with the probe each one runs on). Use it to check how many individual report emails will actually be generated before you save.

Reports are organized by tags

The computed list of monitors

Reports can be associated with tag(s) and/or monitor(s). The list of monitors they reference is generated from the tag(s) and/or monitor(s).

For instance: mon1 has tag1, mon2 has tag1 , mon3 has tag2, mon4 has no tag. A given report has monitor mon4 and has tag tag1, then the computed list of monitors for this report will be mon1, mon2, mon4. Separate reports will be sent for each monitor in this list.

Accessing reports and user privileges

Users in the ADMIN group can add, edit, or delete a report, as well as add or remove monitor(s) and/or tag(s) from a report.

Users with tags matching those on the report and belonging to the USER group can also add, edit, or delete a report, as well as add or remove monitor(s) and/or tag(s) from a report.

A report can have one or more tags.

Add a Report

1. Click on the plus icon

A. Go to the Settings panel

1. Set the reportname, state (enabled/disabled), optionnally a description.
2. Add monitors and/or tags fields for this report.
3. Add recipients emails, the Data Range over which the data should be collected, enter the scheduled date time.

B. Click on save

1. The new report appears in the list
2. A notification window box will appear at the right corner

Edit a Report

1. Click on the pencil icon

A. Go to the Settings panel

1. Edit the reportname, state (enabled/disabled), description.
2. Edit monitors and/or tags fields for this report.
3. Edit recipients emails, the Data Range over which the data should be collected, edit the scheduled date time.

B. Click on update

1. The new tag should be visible in the report list
2. A notification window box will appear at the right corner

In the below screenshot, we can see:

1. A enabled report (green line at the top of the report’s tile)
2. A disabled report (red line at the top of the report’s tile)

Send immediately a Report

1. click on the mail icon

1. Enter the recipient email address
2. and click OK

1. Confirm the recipient email address

1. A report will be built and sent for each individual monitor of the list of monitors. Their status will be displayed in the notification window.

Delete a Report

1. Click on the trash icon

1. Confirm the deletion

1. The report is no longer in the list
2. The deletion status is displayed in the notification box

Filter reports

We can filter reports based on their state (enabled/disabled) or their name.

1. Click on the given button to toggle the filter
2. Click on any of these value to filter based on the state
3. Type in case sensitive pattern (part of the reportname, tag, monitor) and type enter

1. Type in “MN” and type enter
2. Reports matching this criteria should appears in the list

See also

• App definition and data modelling — application reports aggregate monitors through the tag/app model
• Compare operations — side-by-side comparison reports
• Downtime operations — planned maintenance windows on the same scoping model

Translations

• fr: Operations sur les rapports