Working with Activity Reports and Access Logs

About Activity Reports

The Activity Report, which is automatically generated for each day, enables Service Administrators to understand application usage. It also helps streamline application design by identifying calculation scripts and user requests that impact application performance. Additionally, the report may be used to compare service usage and performance to a prior report. Information contained in this report includes:

  • The number of users who accessed the service

    In addition to the average usage duration for the number of users on a specific day, the report provides the number of users who logged on each day over the last week, the last seven days, and the last 30 days.

  • Percentage of UI requests that took more than 10 seconds to finish, and top 7 requests that took the most time to complete

    A UI request is a user action such as signing in, loading data, working with forms, and validating rules. The section on the top 30 worst performing user actions identifies the user, duration of the action, activity that the user was performing, and the screen that the user was on.

  • Top 15 user interface requests by execution

  • Average service response time by hour and the number of users by usage duration

  • Top 10 most active users and top least active users by duration

  • Top 5 worst performing calculation script commands over 1 minute

  • Top 10 calculation scripts by duration

    This table identifies the business rules that took the longest time to run. Available information includes the name of the calculation script, the number of times the script was run, and the duration.

  • Unsupported browser versions and the number of users who used them

  • Browser versions that were used to access the service and the number of users who used them

  • Application design changes that occurred during the report period

    This section provides an audit trail of application design changes, if any. Information includes application name, type and name of the modified design artifact, identity of the user who modified the artifact, and the time the changes were made. Data changes are not reflected in this table.

  • Oracle Smart View for Office versions being used and the number of users who use them

  • 10 most active Smart View users who not use the current version of Smart View

Note:

The Application Activity Report uses the administrator’s time zone, which is set in the Maintenance Window screen.

About Access Logs

You can download a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file that provides detailed information on the IP Addresses that accessed the service and their activities. The access log is generated each day. Information contained in the access log includes date and time, the resources that users accessed, duration of user activity, the IP addresses from which users connected to the service, and the actions that users performed in the service.

Activity Report and Access Log Retention Policy

Oracle retains Activity Reports and Access Logs for the last 60 days only.

Use the downloadfile command to download activity reports and access logs from the Outbox to a local computer if you need them for audit purposes. See the Command Reference in Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

To view Activity Reports and to download Access Logs:

  1. Access the service.
  2. Click Application, then Overview, and then Activity Reports.
  3. Perform an action:
    • To open an activity report, click View under Activity Report in the row that indicates the day for which you want to view the report.

    • To download an access log, click Download under Access Log in the row that indicates the day for which you want to download the log.