Working with Reports
You can run, create, and manage your reports from any dashboard. The Reports menu is available on the top right corner of a dashboard. Some dashboards have an associated report template displayed at the top of this menu.
For example, open the hosts dashboard. The All Hosts Report template is listed. In addition, if a user has created reports based on a dashboard and allowed your user role access to it, these reports are also listed in the Reports menu for that dashboard.
To view the reports:
- Sign in to Foglight cloud with your Quest account.
- From the left navigation pane click Reports.
The Reports Dashboard page displays the following sections:
Building a Custom Report
You can create a custom report template, which is similar to creating a dashboard. By creating your own report templates, you can build reports directly from any dashboard or tailor the content and presentation of reports to suit your requirements.
To create a custom report template click Build a Custom Report on the Reports dashboard to choose the building blocks for your custom report using the Create Report wizard. Immediately after building a custom template, you can use it to generate a report.
Running a Report
Foglight contains a number of pre-defined report templates. Each template serves a particular purpose, but many templates have the same expected inputs. The values you specify for these inputs define the content of the report.
Use a template as-is to quickly generate or schedule a report, or change the report input values to meet specific requirements. Running a Report
Click Run a Report on the Reports dashboard to select and generate a report using the Create Report wizard.
Managing Reports
Click Manage Reports on the Reports dashboard to access the Manage Reports dashboard.
Use this dashboard to filter, download, delete, and view details about scheduled and generated reports.
This dashboard enables you to:
- Delete scheduled reports.
- Enable or disable scheduled reports.
- Edit scheduled reports.
- Select a template and run a report.
- Filter the reports list that is displayed in the view.
You can also use the Manage Reports dashboard to generate and schedule reports from the context of your existing set of reports.
