Foglight 6.3.0 - User Guide

Building a Custom Report

You can also 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.

Creating 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. SeeBuilding a Custom Report Template for details about using this wizard.

Immediately after building a custom template, you can use it to generate a report

TIP: To create a report based on the monitoring dashboard you are viewing, select Reports > Create a New Report from the reports menu at the top-right corner of the dashboard, and then select Create a report based on the current dashboard.

Generating a Custom Report

The custom report templates you create appear under My Dashboards in the navigation panel. To run a report immediately based on one of these templates, select the template and click Run () on the toolbar.

Each time you run a report based on a custom report template, you can change the data Foglight includes in the report by setting the parameterized input values. For more information, see Using Parameterized Input Values.

Deleting a Custom Report Template

Delete custom report template by selecting the template under My Dashboards and clicking Delete this Report form General > Actions in the action panel. Foglight removes the report from My Dashboards and the report template list.

NOTE: Users with the Administrators role can remove unwanted scheduled reports created by other users. Users with this role also have access to all of the available report templates. A user who does not have the Administrator role can only see report templates that have the role that matches their user role.