Overview

A Role Report lists details for all user roles that have been created in the LogicMonitor system. It’s an efficient way to overview the settings, privileges, and users assigned to your various user roles.

Configuring a Role Report

To configure a role report, select Reports | Add | Report | Role Report. A report dialog appears that allows you to configure various report settings.

Configurations Common to All Report Types

The first four settings, along with the final setting, that are found in the report dialog (Title, Description, Group, Format, and Generate this report on a schedule) are universal to all report types. To learn more about these global report settings, see Creating and Managing Reports.

Role Report Settings

In the Role Report Settings area of the report configuration dialog, select either the list or detail version of the report:

List. The list version of this report displays basic overview information for all user roles including:
- Name
- Description
- Whether the role requires members to employ two-factor authentication or sign LogicMonitor’s end user license agreement (EULA)
- All users assigned to the role
- The label and URL, if applicable, for any custom help files members have access to from the navigation bar
Detail. In addition to displaying all basic overview information for all user roles, the detail version of this report displays, at a granular level, the permissions granted across every area of LogicMonitor’s functionality.

Overview

A User Report lists detailed data for LogicMonitor user accounts. It can be used to provide a global table of user account data or, through filter, sorting, and column customizations, it can narrow in on more specific user status and activity. For example, you could create a user report that highlights users’ most recent login dates in order to periodically identify (and potentially delete or suspend) those users that are no longer active in the system.

Configuring a User Report

To configure a User report, select Reports | Add | Report | User Report. A report dialog appears that allows you to configure various report settings.

Configurations Common to All Report Types

User Report Settings

In the User Report Settings area of the report configuration dialog, establish the report’s filters, sorting, and column display.

Filters

There are several filters you can use to narrow the report’s output. As shown next, click the drop-down arrow next to the More field in order to view and select filters beyond the first three displayed.

Note: The UserName, Email Address, Role Assignment, First Name, and Last Name filters all support glob expressions for wildcarding and other advanced search expressions.

To learn more about the user account settings these filters correspond to, see Users.

Sorted By

Select the user property that should be used to sort displayed users.

Note: The values available here are determined by the columns selected for the Columns setting (i.e. you can’t sort by a data value that isn’t included as a column in the report’s output).

Columns

By default, all available user account data is included as a column in the report’s output. Uncheck any data values that are immaterial for your purposes.

To reorder columns, grab the icon to the far left of a column name and drag and drop the column into its new position.

Overview

The Dashboard report allows you to send a dashboard snapshot (either on a one-time basis or on a recurring basis using a schedule of your choosing) to stakeholders. This is particularly useful for distributing moment-in-time metrics of an environment’s health to those who don’t have access to the dashboard within the LogicMonitor platform.

Dashboard reports are distributed as web page URLs. You can enable the Allow Shared Reports access for sharing public and private URLs for generated reports. The generated report URL links are valid for 12 hours. For more information, see Accessing and Sharing Generated Reports.

Note: You can also configure dashboard snapshot sharing directly from an open dashboard, as discussed in Sharing and Exporting/Importing Dashboards.

Creating a Dashboard Report

To create a new Dashboard report, navigate to Reports | Add | Report | Dashboard Report. From the Start a new report dialog, configure the following settings:

Select Dashboard: from a dropdown menu, choose the Dashboard you would like to share as a report.
Title: the title of the report as it will appear to recipients. This field will default to the name of the Dashboard you have selected. You may change the title, if necessary.
Description: a brief description of your Dashboard Report. As a best practice, the description should include an overview of the report’s scope, contents, and schedule.
Group: Select the report group to which the Dashboard Report will be assigned. It is helpful to organize reports based on related environment (ie. a particular office/datacenter location, related recipients, etc.). If you would like to create a new Report Group, select the “add” icon to the right of the “Group” field.
Time Range: the time range from which this report will pull data from your Dashboard. Each widget in the Dashboard will be configured to reflect the time-range designated in this field.
Report Schedule: If you select the “Generate this report on a schedule” checkbox, you will be asked to designate the recurring time/date on which this report will be generated and sent to recipients. If you would like to manually generate this report, leave this box unchecked.
Email Recipients: This field will only appear if you have selected the “Generate this report on a schedule” checkbox. All emails associated with users in the LM account will appear as auto-suggestions. You can also add external emails manually. Note that if you are not generating this report on a recurring schedule, you will simply have to run the report and send it to users via the report’s URL.

Once you have configured each of these fields, click Next. You will be asked to run the report; after doing so, it will be auto-saved.

Receiving a Dashboard Report

Once generated, any designated recipients will receive an email resembling the one in the following graphic.

Note: Clicking the attachment directly will result in a distorted view in most web mail clients. For an accurate view, be sure to click the “Click here” embedded link or download the attachment.

Note: Dashboard report URLs expire after seven days. This is a limitation of the AWS authentication technology that LogicMonitor uses to generate these URLs.

Overview

The Alert Forecast report forecasts which datapoints are likely to go into alert within the next 30 days, using the static thresholds that are set for datapoints. It uses predictive analytics to review datapoints’ past trends and plot their future trajectories. To learn more about LogicMonitor’s data forecasting features, see Data Forecasting.

The Alert Forecast report features columns that indicate the number of days until a datapoint is projected to reach warning, error, and critical alert conditions. If a datapoint is currently in alert, as is the case with the first datapoint listed here, the alert severity level icon displays instead.

Configuring an Alert Forecast Report

To configure an Alert Forecast report, select Reports | Add | Report | Alert Forecast Report. A report dialog appears that allows you to configure various report settings.

Configuring Settings Common to All Report Types

Configuring Alert Forecast Report Settings

In the Alert Forecast Report Settings area of the report configuration dialog, shown and discussed next, specify settings particular to the Alert Forecast report including which datapoints you would like to forecast and the forecast method you would like applied.

Forecast Method

From the Forecast Method field’s dropdown menu, select from one of two forecast methods:

Line of best fit forecast
95% confidence forecast

For more information on these forecasting methods, see Data Forecasting.

Forecast Basis (Training Data)

In this field, indicate the duration of time from which data will be pulled and analyzed to predict future alerts.

Resource Groups / Resources

From the Resource Groups or Resources field, limit the resources to which this report will apply by designating one or more resource groups or resources. You can use explicit names or glob expressions in these fields.

Note: Multi-glob lookup is available in this field. You can select a combination of both glob and distinct values to specify your resources/resource groups. For more information on LogicMonitor’s support of glob, see Using Glob throughout your account.

Datapoints

From the Datapoints area of the dialog, enter one or more DataSource/instance/datapoint sets to indicate which datapoints you would like included in the report. These datapoints will be pulled only from the resource(s) you specified in the previous field.

Top 10 only

Select the Top 10 only checkbox to limit the report’s results to the top ten datapoints that are closest to alerting.