How to Monitor Report Usage

Several reports are available to help you determine how and where your reports and dashboards are used.

As a manager or site administrator, it's important to understand who uses the reports and dashboards on your site, how often they're used, and where they're used. You can view this information using the Expanded Report Audit Log, and the reports available in the Report Management module.

The Expanded Report Audit Log lists every instance of every report on your site being generated, printed, exported, and previewed over the previous 30 days. See View the Expanded Report Audit Log.

The reports in the Report Management module give you information about scheduled reports and dashboards, reports and dashboards that require excessive processing time, and reports and dashboards used in workspaces, report links, and navigation sets. You can also find reports and dashboards that meet criteria you specify and generate a list of descriptions for any of your public reports and dashboards.

If you need a list of the reports available on your site, you can use the View Report Descriptions report, available in the Report Management component. With this report, you can produce a catalog of reports that displays the descriptions of standard and custom reports. This can help you find an existing report you can use to find information you want, or that you can copy to create a custom report that more precisely meets your reporting needs. See Create a List of Reports.

Note: The reports in the Report Management component use data that's not available in the report designer, and perform non-standard post-processing of the data. These reports cannot be copied or edited like the standard reports. In addition, these reports aren’t accessible with the Public API.

To access the Report Management component, you need to add it to your navigation set. See Overview of Navigation Sets. You also must configure your profile permissions to access the management reports you want. See Configure Management Reports Permissions.