You can schedule a report to analyze the data in dashboard widgets.

Prerequisites

Verify that your user account is associated with a role that has edit permissions for Dashboards > Scheduled Reports. For information about roles, see Create and Modify Roles in Administering vRealize Log Insight.

Procedure

  1. Expand the main menu and navigate to Reports.
  2. Click Schedule Report.
    Tip: Alternatively you can open a dashboard from the Dashboards page and click the Schedule Report icon in the upper-right corner of the page.
  3. Enter a name for the report.
  4. From the Dashboard Select drop-down menu, select the dashboard for which you want to schedule the report.
  5. From the Dashboard Duration drop-down menu, select a period of 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, or a custom period. This period determines the duration within which the dashboard data is used to generate the report, till the Schedule Time.
    For example, if you select a Dashboard Duration of 10 minutes and a Schedule Time of 08:30, the report is scheduled based on the dashboard data from 08:20 to 08:30.
  6. Under Schedule Time, select the date, time, and recurrence to schedule the report.
  7. Under Notify, enter comma-separated recipient email addresses to send email notifications for the report.
    For all enabled report configurations, the reports are generated and sent to corresponding recipients based on the provided schedule and for the specified dashboard.
    Note: Ensure that SMTP is configured to enable email notifications. For more information, see Configure the SMTP Server for Log Insight.
  8. (Optional) To send a test report notification, click Send Test Report.
  9. Click Save.

Results

Your report appears in the Reports page.

The actual report is sent to the recipients based on the schedule as a PDF attachment. For example, let us consider a report schedule with a dashboard duration of 10 minutes and a schedule configured for every 5 days with a start time of 15:30. The report is sent every 5 days at 15:30 as a PDF attachment. The attachment contains information for the specified dashboard within the selected dashboard duration, which is from 15:20 to 15:30.

Note: Some widgets such as Event types and Event trends are not supported in scheduled reports. When the report is generated for a dashboard containing unsupported widgets, the report displays Widget type not supported in the PDF file.

What to do next

You can enable, deactivate, or modify the report.